Looks to be B2B focused. I don’t see a price anywhere, but can request a quote, and their references to data sovereignty makes me think it’s “self”-hosted, as opposed to an E2EE cloud solution.

Could be wrong, I was just scanning, but it feels much more focused on big businesses with large dedicated IT departments.

Steam was the first major storefront to refuse to carry Horses, a first-person psychological horror adventure about “the burden of familial trauma and puritan values, the dynamics of totalitarian power, and the ethics of personal responsibility” set on a ranch where nude human beings in horse masks are treated as livestock.

Publisher Santa Ragione said in November that Valve declined to carry Horses because it contained “content that appears, in our judgment, to depict sexual conduct involving a minor.” Santa Ragione disputed that characterization, but an appeal was rejected and the ban stands.

Seems like it’s treading a very fine line…

You’re assuming that whatever they’re talking to is capable of giving only good advice with awareness and consideration of their living situation.

Sex education is beneficial if done well, but there is zero evidence suggesting AI can do anything well.

I’m gonna go with Kaepora Gaebora, the owl from OOT.

Would you like me to repeat that? Yes…

I’m gonna go with Kaepora Gaebora, the owl from OOT.

Would you like me to repeat that? Yes…

I’m gonna go with Kaepora Gaebora, the owl from OOT.

Would you like me to repeat that? Yes… No.

Gonna go with the wildcard here and suggest Walkscape. It’s still in beta, so access requires a one-time patron sub ($4.50, then cancel) or a free written application through their portal (may take like a week to approve)

It’s a classic runescape-style RPG where all actions cost “steps” walking. It’s designed to keep screen time to a minimum and walking time to a maximum.

Character management is generally pretty passive and 1-handed. Definitely much more casual by nature, but encourages much more active participation.

Tried a few public instances and it seems like the only way to not get rate limited by the big players is probably to self-host.

Trying to wrap my head around how to self host and still keep it anonymous. Anyone have experience hosting a “private” instance that’s web accessible? Are tokens sufficient to keep others off it? Can you still get results routing through TOR?

Not all disabilities are visible.

What? Even if you take the argument, which is full of shit, at face value, tons of people are citizens to countries other than their birth county. Born or married into a family that grants you citizenship rights? Moved somewhere and changed citizenship?

It’s up to India, not China, to determine who gets Indian passports, and it’s China, not India’s, fault for not issuing a Chinese passport to this woman if they view her place of birth as Chinese territory.

Sustainable farming requires two major changes to people’s diets:

1. switching ~90% of your diet over to plant based options.

2. adjusting your diet to match seasonal trends in availability.

#1 is much more impactful than #2, but neither is easy with today’s consumers.

Cats are remarkably capable predators, and cat owners are remarkably irresponsible.

Letting your cat be an “outside” cat is bad enough for the environment. Not spaying/neutering said “outside cat” is how we get feral cats everywhere.

That said, I dont love the vague “eradicate feral cats” language. Would greatly prefer a broad spectrum spay/neuter/tag program to naturally reduce their population.

Predator-free NZ was always destined to ruffle some feathers though.

And, as with any standardized hardware, it’s a lot easier to ensure games and services (like Proton) perform reliably.

Time will tell if this sells enough, but it could become the new standard for industry benchmarking/testing.

Technical debt aside of course the development process looks like that - what’s the alternative? Infinite feature growth? No one benefits from that.

As an example, I’ve got signal on my phone- it started with texting features, added images, calls, video calling, but at some point there’s a limit on the number of useful ways to communicate.

I don’t need it to be another social network.

I don’t need it to tell me my horoscope, order a pizza, or organize my photos.

I don’t need it to track my health, play games, read my work emails, or drive my car.

It doesn’t need to integrate with VR, or AI, or whatever 2-letter buzz acronym comes up next week.

It’s a secure messaging platform, I need it to send messages. Sure, there’s always a cat and mouse game of encryption to keep ahead of, but infinite feature growth? It’s not practical or necessary. Things can exist to do one thing reliably and well.

You could do PR with the ballot of potential Reps distributed by district. When the election is settled the district Reps are assigned starting with the highest-skewed district. E.g.:

Overall vote: 60:40 (red:blue)

D1: 80:20
D2: 40:60
D3: 70:30
D4: 45:55
D5: 30:70

You can go randomly, round Robin, or winner-first to divvy up the districts, but essentially you would expect D1, D3, and D4 to be assigned their local red Rep (even though red “lost” in the close D4 race) and D2 & D5 to go blue

With more parties, random or round robin are a little more “fair” for the third party - winner first allocation could result in 3rd party getting the “whatever’s left” district where they didn’t actually get any votes.

It’s not perfect, but neither is the current system.

Buses are so cheap but the psychological difference between a free bus ride and a $0.75 bus ride is astronomical. All public transit should be free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation

When WIRED asked Meta what rate-limiting measures it instituted over the last eight years to prevent the technique Kloeze demonstrated, the company responded that it has, in fact, implemented evolving defenses against scrapers, including rate-limiting and machine-learning techniques to ban scrapers. Yet the University of Vienna researchers were able to not only replicate Kloeze’s work, but take it further, actually enumerating all 3.5 billion registered WhatsApp phone numbers—far more than the service had in 2017.

A generous rate limit of 1 query per second would have taken 111 years to churn through 3.5 billion users (with 100% success rate on guesses). Meta’s rate limit seems to be “the rate at which our servers can query our contact database”.

I’m guessing the next biggest example of this exact same flaw was when this happened on Facebook like 8 years ago. Who could possibly have seen this coming?

Windows Vista would like a word.

In terms of utility for the average person, statistics >>>>> calculus.

I work in an engineering field, and can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had to do an integral in the last year. But I run into glorified statistics problems virtually every day both in personal and professional situations.

Having to constantly remind people of error bars, statistical significance, and the difference between correlation and causation, it would have been nice if those things were hammered home more thoroughly in school.

The only AI feature of theirs that I’ve used is their Translate tool and I’ve been pretty satisfied with the results in comparison to others.