mildmotive
For medium to large applications it takes quite a bit of work to give your Qt GUI a custom style, and do it right. This isn’t something you can hand wave away.
About HTML+CSS, that’s just incorrect.
Go and try Tailwindcss and then tell me how bad HTML is at resizing.
I can’t even access the tweet.
In reality, people don’t have the time to read up on these issues to build an opinion in the first place. The most potent media corporations that could’ve amplified this issue for the general public are effectively propaganda machines for whoever pays the most or has the biggest guns to their heads.
It’s a sad state of affairs. Most of the public are unaware that a cage is being built around them.
But those who do have some understanding about these threats, they certainly are increasingly more distrustful.
Worsening geopolitics and an ageing population are more immideate problem compared to the inability to eliminate (not reduce) carbon emissions.
Or am I missing something? Can someone explain to me why ”eliminating carbon emissions” was sandwiched between the other two issues?
The issue that many people were raising is with regards to privacy (not saying your app infringes upon it in any way). If PWA deployment can ensure that the app truly stays offline, then that’s a good thing.
I personally like open source better, as it is easier to examine the inner workings of the app. It also helps tech-savvy users fix bugs and verify that it doesn’t do anything they don’t want it to do. Etc etc
Also, Electron apps can be sandboxed using Flatpaks for instance. Flatpaks aren’t perfect of course, but they do provide some guarantees. You can even use Flatpaks while keeping the source code closed.
I haven’t mentioned ChatGPT because this AI act seems to extend beyond just ChatGPT and as the article mentions also sets rules for facial recognition and other similarly problematic technologies.
India hates Pakistan. Knowing this, it’s hard not to take what they have to say about Pakistan’s politics with a grain of salt.
Furthermore, do you think that buying alcohol to a minor is okay if they can seek it out themselves?
Visual depictions.
Calling it ”book banning” as if ideas are being surpressed or something, is very dishonest and it’s getting quite transparent at this point.
Women think of men already having a partner as an indication of him being reliability, which is a positive.
The way I look at parenting is that initially it’s guarding and restrictive, but slowly one lets go in such a way that the child is on a good path in life. So the way I look at it is that it’s a parent’s responsibility to provide some kind of framework. Then different parents may obviously argue what that framework should be…
Obviously I can’t tell you how to raise your own children, but you yourself are seeing that porn is harmful at least up to a certain age. It’s especially good to prevent porn during a child’s formative years.
I would argue that porn isn’t good for anyone really, considering at least the following factors:
1. Like a drug, it numbs the senses and leads to the consumer needing more and more extreme content to feel the same level of satisfaction as before.
2. It’s not clear whether or not the female participants are consenting or not. Not too long ago PornHub got a lot of heat for spreading videos of the abuse of minors on their platform. They ended up having to purge millions of their videos because consent could not be verified. So imagine if God forbid you or your child unknowingly watches these types of abuse.
3. It changes the viewer’s attitude to women. Porn portrays women as public toilets, no dignity or honour whatsoever.
4. If you’re fine with other people’s daughters acting in these videos, then ask yourself: would you accept that for your own womenfolk?
There is more to say, but let’s move on.
You can technically bypass this using a VPN. What this law practically does is adding an additional hurdle for children from seeing this stuff, and that’s something good. Adults on the other hand, are generally speaking capable of setting up a VPN to bypass whatever filter they want.
A double-negative is not a positive.
> But god forbid they learn about or see a sex act, which by the way quite literally is what ensures the continuation of the human species.
Sex, which ensures the continuation of the human species, is not the same as watching porn. No porn is needed for human-beings to know what to do.
Come on! You know this argument is bullshit.
If a grown-up really wants to watch porn, they can use a VPN. It’s not hard, no ID is needed. By adding a hurdle for children to access this material we can protect them from getting harmed by it at a young age. I think setting up a VPN is a small price to pay for if it means increasing the average age of exposure to porn.
Imagine a child unknowingly watching rape on film. It’s bad for an adult, what about a child?
I don’t think most people really understand how vile and harmful porn is. I also think that regardless of the downvotes, it’s good to speak up against this. The intention is not to convince someone that doesn’t have a conscience, but to inform people who’re just unaware.