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Australia bans social media for under 16s
  • Freedom to raise your kids, and freedom to live your life as you choose, yes. Laws aren't needed for this. Content management should come from parents, and if websites are pushing agendas or misinformation you don't want your child on, you should be dictating what they are viewing.

    You don't (lawfully) ban kids from parts of the library because you are worried they might read about things you don't like, you monitor which books they are reading and tell them not to read such, or discuss why/why not those resources do not agree with or match the principles you agree with.

    This is the equivalent of banning kids talking to each other at school, on the bus or at the mall/park. If a platform is pushing harmful information then block that site, or bring a suit against the site for pushing harmful information.

    Edit: If you don't want your kid on certain apps or sites you can start with things like this: https://families.google/familylink/ Don't force it on other people with laws, I believe parents should have the choice for themselves. Apps like that allow you to block social media sites, restrict their app usage and reset passwords if needed.

  • Australia bans social media for under 16s
  • The older generations always think the younger generations are lazy and lesser. They don't believe they can parent because they know how shit they were at parenting. So they are voting to take away parental rights and give those rights to the government. And then say they are pro small government.

  • Before and after programming
  • Thanks, went over my head. I was thinking they had maybe thought they were on mastodon or something and tried to repost it and were actually on Lemmy.

    Is there a term they use for that? Like people used to say retweet... Do they remasta it?

  • Open source is a fire-hose of value...
  • A nice item on my resume presumes a company sees profits which you are assuming a company desiring profits is willing to make 0 profit deals when spending money on assets. It's flawed at its core.

    Capitalism forbids it

  • Open source is a fire-hose of value...
  • Okay, I would love that but let me see if I can play devils advocate and get productive responses that work in the capitalistic world we are stuck in.

    Why would a company pay a team millions of dollars annually to give it away for free. That destines their entire company for failure in their mind. They get no kick backs other than a thank you note for doing so... Which means nothing to their bottom line but down.

  • Open source is a fire-hose of value...
  • In my experience it's because companies desire a year end return greater than the last. To do so means every investment of time to them needs to be of monetary gain, or else they show gains by cutting the employees that would work on that project and the bottom line goes up. Aka more investors and stock increases (overlap occurs there)

  • What is the scariest thing there? Me: "People who wear shorts in winter..." 😂
  • I have a feeling that they may mean real moonshine, not the stuff listed as moonshine in stores. Although it may not be considered "in public" I know a guy here that just left flyers at a local bar for his moonshine and would come by a few times a week and everyone knew which nights they'd be around. He'd reuse gallon jugs that used to have water, or those cheap punches you'd buy in stores. Most people would by a pint or quart though. He'd flavor some, but getting a gallon of it plain just basically tastes like slightly off grain alcohol.

    At the end of the day, whatever was getting sucked out of the plastic bottle into the alcohol was likely just as bad for us as the alcohol itself.

    I stopped going to bars, and cut back drinking by a long shot, but I'm sure if he's not around still someone likely took his place.

  • Elon Musk hides X engagement figures amid user exodus
  • Assuming he lives to 88. And gets only 5% interest on his current money. Interest puts him over 1 trillion easy (around 1.8t) So assuming there are 450,000 users on Lemmy and we all make 3,000,000 dollars in our total lives... Yeah he will make about 1.5 times what me all make.

    Sidenote: average stock market growth over 10 years has been around 11% I saw. So that would put his worth around 8.9 trillion in 35 years of just sitting on investments.

  • Jeez, Microsoft read the room already
  • Yeah it depends on the group policies that hit the machine set up by their company. Likely when a new user logs into the machine the image/policy isn't using C:\users%Username% as the default file location, but rather c:\users%username%\onedrive.

    Thus creating a local copy of said files they create, and auto backing them up to OneDrive so they have backups and local copies.

    The standard user directory still exists so if someone saves something there, it will show up in recents and then they will keep saving things there, and it won't back up. That's my guess

  • Jeez, Microsoft read the room already
  • I think that has to do with the security they set up to try to ensure malware/viruses don't go upstream. If you are going to share permissions across users, across computers, and across multiple networks, you can't have Fred downloading an email to his documents which is automatically backing up to his onedrive which he shared with a sharepoint drive for everyone else to access and now it has permissions to come back down to their devices as well. I would say that's ignoring teams, but like it was pointed out elsewhere, SharePoint / OneDrive / Teams storage is essentially all the same.