I never really thought about this, as I work in sectors where authentication is usually selfhosted.
Why is authentication out sourced so much? Is it the worry of data leaks and the administration effort that comes with it?
I actually tried building a harness around their constraints, just to find out if it was possible, but the combination of small context window, no tool calls and just small model, made me understand, that it’s not going to work.
But from first hand, I grew up on social media and I can’t say it was really positive for me or the people around me that also grew up on/with social media.
I’m wondering how this would change mental health in young people. Can anyone point me to specific studies on this?
Personally I believe that our communities and mental health deteriorate through social media especially in a young age.
Although I am a firm believer of the above, I do not believe that Governments are doing it because they do care about our health.
Quite the opposite. I believe they want to manipulate us as much as they can so they can keep in power.
Although they want that, they have seen that social media has the power on gathering people and creating protests, so I believe they want to cut it off on younger people that usually have way more anger and got much less to lose (nowadays that the light at the end of the tunnel is fading) than a middle-aged man being mind-controlled his whole life being a good abiding citizen.
Its a power tool, they are just swinging it where they want. Soonish in EU we'll have the same ban, but it won't be because EU politicians cares about children, it is so they can keep their power and not have a generation that has access to other sources than traditional media and structured schools grooming them on just obeing their masters.
Are political revolutions really brought about by children under 16? I think there's an argument that these policies push for identifying adults and that that might stifle speaking out, but I don't think any of it would be about stifling uprising from 15 year olds.
And when you speak of governments doing this to stay in power: which governments? All political parties in general? Just typical old-school politicians? Because there's a fairly atypical leader in the US, and there's an atypical rising force in Australia, and so on, and I think their popularity is stronger in older age brackets than aforementioned 15 year old.
>the disinformation you see on social media about subjects like vaccines.
Governments produced far more disinformation about vaccines than social media, like claiming the covid vaccines reduced transmission when the studies behind them never claimed that and the actual data showed that clearly wasn't the case.
I’ve given this a lot of thought as well and I’m also generally a little unsure, especially because the Internet was so positive for me in most other ways (it’s hard to overstate what battle.net communities did for my psychology and confidence as somebody who felt kind of alone) but I think what ultimately distinguishes the current harm of social media is that what we had back then was not nearly as sophisticated. Yes I’m sure they were getting some data from us, yes there was exploitation and problems, But the current infrastructure of the “attention economy” is absolutely insane and beyond destructive.
From a social perspective, it wasn’t really until Instagram blew up in popularity and we had to start learning not to take people’s feeds as representative of how great their lives were that this stuff started to creep up. IMO Facebook was a little more text driven and myspace was mostly just middle school drama that would’ve taken place IRL anyway.
I get your opinion on networks like battle.net. These also did wonders for me as a person and getting me into IT in the first place, got me connected with people double my age who just taught me valuable lessons on teamwork and growing up.
With my comment I was looking more into the direction of "the social media", where everything seems fake. I luckily grew up, when everything was still based on an actual timeline and not a deeply optimized algorithm.
Yeah I think I kind of accidentally conflated some stuff in that comment. I’m more just broadening out - social media is particularly harmful, but there are parts of the Internet outside of social media that are also not great.
I think that comment about sophistication is absolutely key. Not even just data harvesting, but actively working against the interests of a user to keep them actively engaged.
Yeah it’s just such an overall hostile experience where you have to have your guard up. Which crazy to me is how many people on HN still say that having an ad blocker is selfish/“people just wanting stuff for free.” An ad blocker is basic security at this point.
The Anxious Generation is a recent book that extensively explains the damage caused by social media before age 16. The arguments in the book would support such a ban if it manages to get the majority of kids off social media, but it has to be a critical mass and not easily evadable
One issue with this is that it's a non-peer-reviewed critique of a peer-reviewed scientific article. It's of course still possible that the critique is correct and the article is wrong. However, you'd need to deeply understand this critique, and be at least as qualified as the reviewers to be able to convince yourself of that (or have a good reason to believe the reviewers deliberately accepted a flawed paper). Am I missing something?
Yet like cigarettes or lead you're not prepared to be very careful about results that claim it's all a moral panic being favourable to a very rich elite.
This is separate from mandating age verification onto everyone.
Personally I don't really care as to whether social media is banned or not, though I also don't think state actors should even be able to restrict us. However had, when it comes to age sniffing, I fail to see why I should yield my personal data, in order to access information on the www. This kind of defeats the purpose of www if a state can restrict us here (any state - not surprising in a dictatorship, but odd in a democracy).
Valve is "messing up" all launches in my opinion if I go by your definition. They always are out of stock pretty fast.
Look at the Steam Deck. To this day you have to check every day (at least in Germany) if there is any stock now.
For the scalpers part; I know a lot of people who would pull out a stack of money for anything Valve/Steam branded.
I personally needed a new controller and when I saw the release date I set multiple alarms because at some point you just know how fast they’ll be sold out.
In my (german) memory, I could buy my steam deck quite problem free. The supply issues only really started end of last year/start of this year, due to the global RAM shortages. Before that, I can't recall there being availability issues. (at least in germany)
I'm a Jr. sysadmin at a medium sized software company.
Whenever I document workflows for our users, I have two colleagues of mine who have no connection to IT work through them and add the small gotchas they asked me to the docs.
It saved me a whole bunch of headaches for when other users get enrolled in these workflows.
I've been doing some cal/QC functions recently after years not touching it. Since I last did it I've forgotten some of the knowledge that is just assumed. The answers to my questions are documented, but not in a places that is accessible from the production side and has lived as community knowledge in production. I've been making a list and updating the documents to fill in some gaps.
Unfortunately some of the production people aren't comfortable enough pushing for changes in the documentation so some of my job now is to ask what they've noted and get it added.
I'm Canadian and I switched from an ISP headquartered in Ontario to one headquarterd in Quebec (Teksavvy to Bell because of a bulk agreement my building got) and now half my youtube ads are in french, despite me living in Ontario.
Don't care either way, but it does make you think...
I don't know OTOH whether "target audience's spoken language" is one of the signals an advertiser can key into in targeting an ad (at a glance, it looks like it might be). But (a) advertisers don't always have that signal and (b) advertisers themselves aren't always savvy enough to set it (how many American advertisers targeting Iowa actually tag their ads as "in English?"), so you'll end up with region targeting as a proxy for language targeting.
In your case, it's probably that the ad engine doesn't have enough info on you so it's falling back to geotargeting and hoping for the best (are you running with JavaScript disabled? Clearing cookies frequently? Avoiding logins? If so, these are all things known to decrease ad signal quality).
That's the point. Youtube/Google knows who I am and I'm logged in - my preferences are all set to english and my searches, videos watched, etc are all 99% english, with the rest being with english subtitles.. I'm not talking about banner ads on random websites.
Good point. Another hypothesis is that individual advertisers aren't using that data.
Back in the day, I had a front-row-seat to this process and I observed how often advertisers simply misconfigure a campaign and under-target it. If you don't set a targeting preference for a given indicator, the default can be to target everyone regardless of what that indicator says about them.
It might be the case that advertisers are saying they want to target you anyway (or failing to say one way or the other) even though they should have enough signal to know it's a wasted impression.
Yeah, that makes sense as well. The french ads come to me in waves and I can see lazy advertisers just "targeting quebec" or "all french regions" for the french runs.
I had figured it was not exactly technical burnout in running Mediawiki installs but regulatory burnout in following Euro GDPR/cookie banner/bullshit-of-the-now requirements. Some of them are easy but the rest phase in once you reach a certain scale of users (which it sounds like they probably have).
Yeah, speaking as a European tech lead; GDPR was a pain in the butt a few years ago when it was introduced - and all client websites had to be retroactively fitted with cookie systems, routines had to be implemented, stuff had to be learned, etc.
Once sites are planned with it in mind from the get go it's really no big deal, and huge for the end user.
For a wiki farm like Miraheze, GDPR/CCPA/etc compliance is fairly easy. MediaWiki collects fairly little personal data about users, and there are well-defined methods for the site operator to export or delete that data if a user requests that they do so.
Besides, that all kicked in years ago. It's not a new concern.
Cookies were regulated by the ePrivacy directive back in 2009. The case raised above is about someone who had access to see the users' IP address. Handling training and authorisations for people with access to personal data is an ongoing job, not something you do once and forget.
Also a more easy language to look into for Minecraft would be SkriptLang [1]. It has a big community and is mostly easy to understand.
[0]: https://github.com/PrismarineJS/mineflayer/blob/master/examp... [1]: https://github.com/SkriptLang/Skript/