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  • The desktop browser was better than IE back in the days and I like how they market/position themselves. Nowadays I switch between Chrome and Firefox just to have different containers (private and work), and yes I know this is also somewhat native supported in Firefox.. but it still felt unintuitive to me.

    I recently started using Firefox on Android because of the new privacy sandbox strategy (which I'm not against per se, I don't know all the details yet though), but I must say.. it feels a bit buggy and seems to suffer from input lag. Too bad, the desktop experience is flawless.

  • For me personally, this makes me more anxious. As it gives me an incentive to do more than I already do, while I'm already hanging by a thread trying to give what I can. If I've done even more of my best and still fail, I feel worse.

    As at that point I know for sure that I'm not in control as I can't change things even when I do everything I can.

    For those like me, I try to lower my expectations. If things work out better than expected, that's still with me on only 100% instead of 130%. If things go south, I just wasn't giving it my all, I'm still in control.

  • I was also curious and found that this is probably a different warning nozzle, one that creates mist especially just to wetten groups of people. It seems different nozzles can be used, stronger nozzles are used when people do not leave.

    Source (in Dutch)

  • For others like me interested in the exact example; it's about the difficulty of designing a trash can that smart bears cannot open and dumb tourists still can. You cannot create something too secure if you still want dumb people to use it as well, due to the overlap.

    The quote is not really saying dumb people will break / nullify security, like I read in the above comment, but more that they just will not be able to operate it.

  • I'd practically get depressed without work. But it really depends on if you're doing something you enjoy of course. My job gives me fulfillment, but I realize many/most people are currently just working their asses off just surviving the month.

    A better scenario still would be with universal basic income though, so in that utopia all people can contribute however they want. I mainly would work more flexible hours, but perhaps even more in total.

  • I think I understand your viewpoint, but personally have a different opinion. I'm not going to a restaurant to socialize with the waiter; although some of those interactions can be pleasant it's still just a functional transaction to me that can go wrong and could be be optimized. My main focus is the people I'm going to the restaurant with and the food/drinks.

    QR for the win for me, but I agree fully that most of those apps kinda suck. I hope time will fix that.

  • That's a fair point. And I believe AI should be able to combine legal material to create illegal material. Although this still feels wrong, if it excludes suffering in base material and reduces future (child) suffering, I'd say we should do research on it at least. Even if it's controversial, we need to look at the rationale behind it.

  • Of course we don't want both, but it comes across as if you're dismissing a possible direction to a solution to the one that is definitely worse (real life suffering) by a purely emotional knee jerk.

    Mental health support is available and real CSAM is still being generated. I'd suggest we look into both options; advancing ways therapists can help and perhaps at least have an open discussion about these sensitive solutions that might feel counter-intuitive at first.

  • I'm thinking new interfaces/concepts of interaction might be where we lose touch.

    Just like the previous baby boom generation had people with a lot of technical knowledge about for example how punch cards were used to configure computers and how to type with an old typewriter, we might know much about more advanced technical software and touch interfaces, but many might skip the Snapchat/TikTok scene and feel out of place.

    Not to mention future upcoming things like a Brain-Computer Interface connected to an AI; perhaps to socialize, to create tools / content. Some of us, and maybe you as well, will join this scene too, but I already see people giving up and staying away from new stuff.

    We will have a role in the technical side because of our knowledge, but that core knowledge is not that important any longer in many fields just like most developers don't have to worry about machine code any more.

  • While I agree that businesses have way more direct impact and responsibilities, "it's about sending a message". If we as consumers put more priority on goods / foods that have less of a bad impact on climate change, corporations will follow that trend as well as that's where the money is.

    We still have to hope that we're not misled by marketing teams too much, but if the global trend is in a specific direction it has more of a chance to contain better options. Just be aware that possibly most of your climate enhancing actions might still be bad/misled/hypocritical in hindsight, but it's better than if we don't take any action at all.

    The only thing we can do is raise our chances.

  • I agree, we should aim for regular schools if possible, but should watch out in taking our ideology too strictly and clouding our view on reality. If it's not manageable, a special school might be best for all parties.

    We can still try, but not against one's better judgement.

  • I get what you mean, but that's just us placing a value on the importance of someone staying alive. An emotional habit that we as social creatures that work together and can love one another of course have.

    Purely rationally speaking, there is no need for one to be alive and that person cannot regret such action, as he/she's dead. The regret is an emotion we project on someone who does not exist anymore, while thinking death is something negative. But in my opinion it's neutral.

  • Euthanasia should be available for anyone at any age. You don't choose to be born, life has no inherent value, suffering is strictly personal. Suicide is a terrible option with lots of drama, an extremely high failure rate and lifelong treatments or medication that are seen as the solution by society is a conservative convulsion of keeping people alive under any circumstances.

    We could set up three sessions with a therapist, to keep people from losing loved ones too fast. But honestly, to me that would feel patronizing. That other people find it important someone stays alive is their problem. If it hurts them too much they can do the same.

    There is joy in life and that's beautiful, but on a scale suffering has the possibility to be more intense. Let people die without drama, let them say goodbye if they want with a ceremony, let them choose.

    That's the next step in the mentality of a modern civilization. It will fix the drama of wars, hunger and pain as you always have a simple painless solution if the suffering gets too heavy. Just end it, peacefully, whenever you want.