Potentially, yes. Sure, it could just be some smut novel, but it could also provide insight into a certain group or people's perspective on societal/political events at the time, contributing to a better painted big picture on an event we thought we knew all there is to know about.

A very recent example is the VHS tapes that contained unseen and unpublished footage of Tiananmen Square.

As a lot of people here are saying, education is alpha omega. However, what makes or breaks this education (whether they end up starting to "test" this education), is how you present it:

Saying casually "You're not allowed to go to these websites because I say so." is like inviting them to explore anyways, and try and find out for themselves whether it's as bad as you say or not (because their classmates have gone to these sites after all, and they're fine).

Instead, make sure to tell them why you're doing it is because you yourself don't even go there, because of X serious reason. Be it big tech spying on and manipulating you, risks of implication in illegal activities, getting scammed, or psychological trauma of seeing too much. Perhaps refer them to a documentary that explains your point, so that you're not the sole source of trust.

The internet is a dangerous place, and that should be communicated from a person who genuinely thinks so themselves (the parent).

This is not to say that the internet can also be useful, but only if used correctly. As for guardrails that can prevent accidentally ending up in the wrong place can indeed be as others mention here, family mode, blocklist, safe DNS, etc.. It's not there to restrict them, but to safeguard them (and you).

Make sure you're also a safe person to talk to about taboo topics. Things like sex, porn, suicide, hacking, gore, drugs, war crimes, school shootings, and various illegal activities should all be safe for them to seek you out as the first point of contact. NOT the internet!

The best monitoring tool I can recommend for a child is for them to feel safe in self-reporting.

... vile and cynical strike ...

This is the kind of rhetoric that both sides use to reinforce the undisputable fact that the enemy is cruel.

It's kind of fascinating to behold the hatred they have towards each other from a third-party perspective, and how tunnel-vision'ed they are. With this rhetoric there doesn't seem to be a desire to end the war, only to retaliate to enact revenge on a subjective unjust.

Kudos to Ukraine for managing to keep the civilian casualties to a low, considering the amount of strikes they've made in Russia at this point, and compared to Russian strikes in Ukraine. Alas, civilian casualties are no less serious or sad.

My heart goes out to yet another family who have been hurt for the rest of their lives. May the war end soon.

It looks to be mostly faithful to the early days. The grind is back to being hardcore, and social play is back in focus.

There are some attempts at rebalancing, which the feedback from the betas have been very helpful in making sure are decent.

There's a bit of new content, but it sticks to the original recipe of being not too rewarding/easy and encouraging exploration.

I'm excited for it and am gonna play.

This Relokatz could be a good place to refer people you know who are stuck in Russia.

There's generally the issue of needing education, employer, or family abroad in order to legitimize your long term stay, but I honestly didn't know countries like Serbia and Armenia were so easily accessible (comparatively).

Definitely going to send this to people I know!

Interesting! Does anyone know of any C/C++ libraries that implement this? And perhaps some solid performance numbers runnings the different solutions?

This all makes me think of the awesome performance enhancement videos for Super Mario 64 by Kaze Emanuar!

You could potentially use TamperMonkey (or similar) and make a userscript that searches and replaces these functions in JavaScript files? Quickest potential solution I can think of for this - no idea if it works, or how well.

It's fun that one can use games for it, but it shouldn't be difficult to do the same through AI-generated imagery either, which isn't much more difficult.

Even though this method is flawed, one shouldn't really use ID-only verification either imho, as it's a security risk to upload any official document like that (ref. Tea app leaks).

The whole age verification that the UK wants to impose has been quite the impossible task from the beginning. Creating government-backed education for (future) parents about how to raise a kid and protect them in today's digital society would be more efficient than this, if we really are thinking of what is best for the kids. But alas, there are zero requirements to become a parent...

An attacker could trick a user into clicking a malicious link inside a Markdown file opened in Notepad, causing the application to launch unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

"launching unverified protocols" - does that mean the network fetching is done by the Notepad app, and Notepad doesn't open the browser for this..? If so, bloody hell, Microsoft...

It might be considered sexist, depending on who you ask.

The amount of males being falsely accused of sexual assault is much lower than the amount of females being exposed to sexual assault. Hence why there has been provided a measure for women at this scale, and not for men.

This is something I'd love to have for the past decade or so, but as I'm now transitioning to Linux I hope to not have much of this problem anymore.

Nice of you to create this though, and I share your tiredness of settings being changed behind our backs...

Random files appearing in the downloads folder on my phone has only happened once
¯\(ツ)/¯

Ah, makes sense, kinda. Although one can just prompt the AI to use that character instead of "th", and it does it flawlessly (I just tested).

As [email protected] pointed out, this 1000-fold increase is compared to barium titanate by itself, not to standard silicium solutions. However, it's still worth pointing out:

Panels made with this technology could be much more efficient and require less space than current silicon-based solar cells,
(...)
The material is also simpler to manufacture and more durable, as it does not require special packaging.

This is pretty cool tech! However I wonder what is going on with their proofreading - there are typos and double words in the article. How does this slip through in a company like Time?

I don't understand, what is YSK about this? This is US politics, and doesn't provide any good content related to this community as far as I can tell.

Unsure why you're getting downvoted (this is "No Stupid Questions", after all), but I'll give my 5 cents:

Reason 1:
The people is essentially the reason why a government has power. Without the people (and their support), the government governs a whole lot of nothing, and they will be forced to do labour themselves.

Reason 2:
Poisoning the water is not very accurate, and may lead to both the death of many whom already are supportive of the government (which will create distrust), and people only getting sick depending on the amount they drink (the dose makes the poison).

Reason 3:
Despite a population having a lot of dissidents, these people still work and contribute to society in some ways. It has to get pretty bad before it will be "worth it" to remove them from society.

Reason 4:
Even if it's so bad that you're looking at an open revolt against the government, poisoning the water will only really yield MAD, which is usually undesirable.

Ultimately, it's unlikely desirable for any government to do this, as there are better ways (for the government). However, there have been some attempts at genocide through water supplies before, so it's not completely unheard of. Check out Project Coast.

When there's no particular need of high definition (nothing here that is small or hard to see, nor particularly pleasing aesthetics), the gains from a big file falls away. And the upsides of a smaller video is that people with poor internet speeds can stream it more easily, and it takes less space on the servers (which are not free to run here on the fediverse).

Worth a smaller file size imho

@[email protected] ^This is a solid and comprehensive reply, and I agree with all.

In regards to the last part, I think sexual intimacy can be okay at an earlier stage, as long as you ensure clear and honest communication beforehand about expectations and comfort zones. But as mentioned, considering the inexperience, caution is your friend. Do not rush; you have time.

Another advice is to be inquisitive: Ask him directly what his intentions are, and why he's infatuated with you. Perhaps also ask your friend's boyfriend about him, and have him tell his 5 cents both about this guy as a potential partner, but also as a person. It might come to light things like him being on the spectrum: Even seemingly socially adept people can be on the spectrum, and it only shows when they're in unfamiliar/stressful situations. This could explain his behavior as someone who just don't know how to show his affection, and (desperately) attempts actions he knows make people happy, like gifts.

I say this as someone who qualifies as a socially adept person on the spectrum, and I recognize this behavior.

The way that kids and students learn has changed drastically ever since the start of the world wide web. We no longer need schools or teachers to acquire information or knowledge.

What we need teachers for now is to teach how to interpret the information that we find, to verify its authenticity, and when & how to challenge that information.

With AI (still hate that term) it has become easier than ever to use shortcuts in thinking. Why figure out of the answer when you can just have the answer presented to you? Big Brother loves you!

Teachers are more important than ever, lest we want a society of sheep that can only think as far as the internet and AI let them, which by this point is largely controlled by tech giants and governments. See Information Warfare.

Also worth a read/dive:
State-Sponsored Internet Propaganda
Cognitive Warfare