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The resolution of the "national threat" chapter of Tiktok was pretty much a defeat for the other social media giants, so I guess they'll pursue this angle now.
I guess this is why everything is under Federation/default now, the old mess was annoying to work with.
I've heard about using food tracking apps as a planner instead. Instead of logging what you ate, you add what you PLAN to eat for the day, and adjust accordingly to fulfill the nutrition requirements.
Re:The Salvadoran government has 5,940 bitcoins worth $582M on Saturday November 30, 2024 @10:03PM (#42285823)
When I hear this I just wonder whether the prison infrastructure can keep up?
I posit that Japan is able to keep its "exoticness" (to much of the world) as a culture because the cultural osmosis that comes from having a populace with good English skills promotes homogenization. I imagine a Japan that's highly fluent in English will look a lot more similar to S. Korea.

I might go to extend this theory and say the quality of English literacy in Japan is intentionally kneecapped at some level in an attempt to retain their cultural identity, even if unconsciously.

Re:NetBSD Bans AI-Generated Code from Commits on Saturday May 18, 2024 @08:22AM (#40398410)
This stance is CYA. There's no way to enforce it but by stating explicitly like this, they save themselves possible legal pain.
Re:Functional Programming Library for Golang by IBM on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:44AM (#37173816)
The horror on my PM's voice when I showed him this library was funny. Instantly blacklisted it in my organization.
Re:Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate Music on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:35AM (#34002018)
This question has been explored before, see Kologorov Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg3XOfioapI
Re:“Hey, so, we've hit 1,028,362 monthly active users” on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:21AM (#33503361)
Are half of them coming from that one child porn instance?
Not surprised. The hot style right now is "authenticity" and typical high status clothing is associated with just the opposite of that.