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it's primarily a windows program and they can't even make a proper windows gui but embed a website, so clicking on anything is like a link instead of focusing into it. for instance if you middle click someone's name it opens it in a browser. fuck off. pressing alt+f4 closes discord instead of sending it to the tray (despite being a tray program). it's always updating something and then it just says "logging in" instead of saying what it's doing. it gets stuck indefinitely if you log in on a slow connection or you unplug lan while it's logging in or doing whatever it's doing at any given moment. absolutely the most frustrating crap to use. it has a billion options for stupid "hardcore" gamers (i am, too, but i don't need it) with special needs while not being a basic quality application that conforms to any UI standard.
they openly spy on you, not even trying to hide it.
instead of real software, it's a stupid fucking social media "community", so you can't just use it as a MECHANISM NOT POLICY program, instead every time you do something like log into a different account you have to check whether this is morally correct or will somehow harm their "community". like say i want to work on my blockchain, who are dumb enough to use discord as their main communication platform. i obviously then would want one account for that, then another - completely separate (but perhaps with the same phone number to make it logistically easier which SHOULDNT EVEN BE A THING, this is the internet) - account for playing games (often during work), i can't just log into these simultaneously, i have to go check what their policy is on that. literally, my first thought is that like typical incompetent american software devs, they will think i'm trying to scam people or some other kind of "abuse". and of course, they appear to have conceded to partially implement this "feature" (by undoing their nonsense about forensically attempting to forbid this)
it literally isn't. porn is mostly people having normal sex or just nude images of a woman. the existence of fringe fetish stuff doesn't affect that in any practical way. but your confusion seems to be thinking this discussion was about feminism or something when it's really just a decrepit boomer who is against sex being even legal lying through his teeth to justify completely pointless and harmful legislation (see 2 posts up)
now back on topic: discord is pathetic web crap. i used it sometimes to add this and that people in games and the first time it immediately gave me a captcha + required a phone to join a room or make an account. i did not port scan their server or anything, let alone use it at all. from their perspective i did nothing wrong, they just have a horribly broken firewall like all webshit. it was in stock firefox too without any plugins
now i tried installing it later and it turned out to just be the same webshit in a wrapper. i immediately asked myself, hmm where is this discord program all the nerds are hyping over for the last 10 years? i asked my friends where i could get the real app (usually there is real software for a protocol that all the cool kids are using, even if it's unofficial. like with MSN (pidgin, etc), IRC (stuff other than mIRC), playing music (foobar), playing videos (mpv), etc. nope, not for discord, you just use the web shit GUI with, accordingly, worse controls than something a boomer microwave designer would make). it has all kinds of special snowflake behaviors too like alt+f4 just closes it instead of sending it to the tray (while clicking x does send it to the tray), and it cant be muted like a regular program.
> no recording in public
this is the only one that sounds like good common sense but isn't even regulation it's just law any sort of legal system would enforce.
all these "safety" things means ai offerings are all useless like google after 2003 when anything you query like "list of fad diet" is transformed into instead of an answer to that "problematic" question, an answer to "NVM LOL HERE IS A LIST OF HEALTHY DIETS"
> can't train on copyright material
that's so dumb. this world has no interesting copyright content coming out for 2 decades, it's literally all sellouts. losing to AI (which will happen regardless of whether the training material contains any copyright content) is exactly what they deserve. don't forget that these are also people who sue random civilians for "damages" that only exit in their head. sellout culture no longer even applies to musicians and book authors, it's also the majority of software too, with people just creating software for part of their resume, or some crowdsource shit, or a blog. any software anyone makes in a corporation is just to host an ad or be a dev tool for people who just host an ad
Speaking of snakeoil
1. Bank etc will not allow special characters, because that's a "hacking attempt". So Firefox's password generator, for example, won't work. The user works around this by typing in suckmyDICK123!! and his password still never gets hacked because there usually isn't enough bruteforce throughput even with 1000 proxies or you'll just get your account locked forever once someone attempts to log into it 5 times and those 1000 IPs only get between 0.5-3 tries each with today's snakeoil appliances on the network. There's also the fact that most people already know that "bots will try your passwords at superhuman rate" by now. Then there's also the fact that not even one of these password policies stops users from choosing bad passwords. This is simply a case of "responsible" people trying and wasting tons of times to solve reality. These people who claim to know better than you have not even thought this out and have definitely not thought about much at all.
2. For everything that isn't your one or two sensitive things, like the bank, you want to use the same password. For example the 80 games you played for one minute that obnoxiously require making an account (for the bullshit non-game aspects of the game such as in game trading items). Most have custom GUIs too and you can't paste into them. You could use a password manager for these but why bother. You just use the same pass for all of them.
which ones? which ones didn't? just 2 days ago i heard PFAS is still in the rumor stage.
> Water providers are entering a new era with significant additional health standards that the EPA says will make tap water safer
i thought you already said it's safe?
i have plenty of health issues caused by just about everything, everything has 10 billion perfumes for no reason, and new kinds of experimental plastics in every single possible thing you can buy, that smell terrible and unsurprisingly make you feel awful, just walking in a city and coming in fills my face with irritants and can ruin my day. this is a small difference in comparison. i doubt the PFAS thing is any more than a typical fad and way for gov to make money as usual. nobody actually cares about this stuff, they just pretend.
windows 9x was probably the last time any user interface tried to be this efficient, now it's just click the arrow and it will make sure to slide the next photo in very slowly in case you forgot that you're waiting for the next photo to appear
and i bet FCC spent 100 million dollars making this
and can you even access these food labels before entering your address? (and why is it not mandated that they provide a list of zones and prices per zone?)
a number like "total latency" is just complete nonsense, as its not a real metric that can fit in one number, and the kind of number marketers love to abuse.
and nothing about what kind of modem the ISP is compatible with. is it cable, adsl, fiber?
wifi extender and battery backup? because someone in FCC needed to work his full shift so he added those during his time? i'm not going to compare isps based on what random bullshit they bundle in, i only care about the actual service. anything more than 3 variables is too much. modem rental is important since they fucked up the chance of having open standards so hard that most people practically have to rent a modem. i guess FCC can't be blamed, they aren't techies or whatever.
this is not the average social media user. the problem is addiction, not doing surgery to yourself. if social media was banned or age gated you would have to ban wikipedia next as its also very easy to get addicted to doing a tree traversal of interesting articles starting at the single one article you intended to read. also stack exchange. pardon my tone deafness to your tragedy, but this is a political issue, and your post is being used for political purposes. this is also a waste of my tax money and proof that taxation is theft. if i was a parent i would just be a good parent like my parents and slap my kids if they get addicted to upvoting shit on social media just as i would slap them if they get addicted to watching tv, playing arcade games (since i would provide them with real games and not gacha shit, the former which still had the addiction problem and the exact same dumb discussions in the 90s)
your argument is dumb too, it doesn't even deserve acknowledgment, but we are little babies here and have to politely explain to everyone why they're wrong, to the point that the insane people just always win and get their dumb ideas into law because nobody cares anymore and are tired of explaining common sense over and over. having safety controls on hardware is not anything remotely equivalent to the hypothetical problem the article pitches. there is not any world where regulating social media makes sense, and i say this as someone who has never used social media in my life. the entire issue at hand here is like a bear shitting in the woods and someone happens to step on it once in a thousand years, almost none of these so called people who get addicted to social media would have any better off chance at life without it, they would just get addicted to one of the millions of other things one can get addicted to. the remaining one in a million people who actually had their life ruined by social media is like the bear shitting in the woods, its just life.
except it is, because law is dumb, stupid, and slow-witted. if you ban facebook specifically, the next day it will think that means mailing lists should also be banned. btw ive witnessed lots of mailing list and then web forum addicted deadbeats before social media came out but whatever
the legal solution is nothing (i realize not all of you have asked for the legal solution yet but thats essentially the only point of this thread that is brought up routinely on places like HN)
teh fact that every techie and his mom seems to think the law will work out in his favor when it backfires each time (or they just ignores that downsides) is no different than how people keep thinking you can put a web server in every embedded device and they oh so surprisingly have the same RCE vulns as the 90s, every single time.
yes, yes, and porn is also a health epidemic, and so was covid (yes it was, only technically). so what? until you roll out new laws in reaction to this "problem", it doesn't exist as far as i'm concerned. i don't care that you have a large body of proof for it, i don't have time to read that. and when you make the laws they will be bullshit and not even solve the problem which may or may not exist. you are all redditors.
> hurr durr my child has internet access its too easy for him to find porn
you had the option to take away his internet bullshit long before making new legislation and setting bad precedents. please fucking kill yourself. and you have no idea what youre talking about too, legally constraining one or two websites changes nothing in a practical perspective, your child is still finding porn. you are an irresponsible piece of shit who values fucking over humanity over a slight inconvenience of your kid not being in the cool club (if he didnt have a phone).
you have the same energy as some dweeb boomer who puts cameras on his front door and lets amazon have a global CCTV of every city in the world (what could ever go wrong), just to prevent a break in that would have never happened in the first place. you security theater buying loser
credit cards, and especially points programs, just are roleplaying games and thats all you need to know, just never use them ever.
"porn without consent" - thought crime
"too much porn of whatever you dream of" - yes, conservatives (50% of USA) actually think this is a problem
"spam" - advancing the closed garden model email is heading towards. soon you will simply need government id to make email even though there are plenty of alternative ways to do communication aside from email which was already considered insecure and a bad protocol in 2000. this has nothing to do with AI but they are still acknowledging this absurdity by framing AI as the enabler of that.
"automated social engineering" - just weaponizing the ignorance the bad thought leaders of the industry left us. instead of giving us proper authentication methods, we still have "just send my photo id to these 33 companies, which will ask for it in random ways we dont expect and just have to trust them"
"copyright" - literally not a problem, almost nothing "protected" by copyright matters and the law is just used by aggressive capitalists to shove their products down everyone's throat
"ICBMs being automatically hacked and launched at people" - just stop being bad government and hiring completely uncredible people to implement every mission critical control system while hooking it up to the internet
"racist bias" (or whatever) - this is the dumbest fucking thing i've ever heard of
this website is a perfect snapshot of why tech sucks so hard. its dressed up like cinematic film using a ton of js libs and css hacks or god knows so it can only be viewed smoothly on the latest computer hardware. only on one of the big 3 browsers that each had a trillion man hours of pointless iterations driven by digital graphics marketing companies. and on top of that they have a nice professional tone made by $300K/year PR people. please, sincerely, fuck off.
LEDs - flicker, CRI, incompatible dimmers and/or dc converters. $50USD min price per bulb if you want anything near quality (of just a $1 incandescent bulb). the problem is the price of power, not the product.
"modern" dishwashers - after 1995 or so they don't actually clean your dishes. i used 20. i clean the filter / chopper regularly. i rinse off my dishes which are already barely soiled to begin with since i don't eat fast food. no matter how you place the dishes, there will always be a few with food stuck on them. fucking disgusting.
ac - it exists for a reason, you are more productive as an obvious corollary to being less lethargic. although it is true that lots of people are oblivious and don't just open the window on a nice day. you also need it to prevent moisture build up (to avoid rotting wood, mold) and stagnant air. while we're at it we have to talk about heating: i don't know the numbers but i'd say in winter you need it at 16C-17C at all times to avoid mold / condensation / rotting wood.
front loading laundry - i used 5. they mold in the front after 1 use. you have to leave the door open all the time, not even for just half an hour. and you need a fan in front of it. they construe the fact that it uses "almost no water" as "it's using super advanced methods". given the general incompetence of the tech industry, one with common sense takes this as "it doesn't clean your laundry". the gasket on the front of each and every single one has a unique and overpowering smell if you go anywhere near it that feels like breathing in knockout gas, and it doesn't go away even years after purchase. to put it into perspective, it's like 10x stronger than what comes out of annoying kids' vapes.
clothes line - your clothes will have germs (the dryer is the part that kills them, not the washer) and mold on days when it's not hot and arid.
you require a cell phone to do basic banking stuff and security theater that has to be replaced every 4 years at the bare minimum due to bitrot. and requires being smart for covid or school shit. it still takes 30 sec to load a web page that uses 100% cpu. you're not allowed to talk about being efficient, stop making me pay more for what little tech actually works.
> And if you really want to lessen your carbon footprint, you'll also want to look into eating less meat and driving less.
that's great, i do both of those things more than you, from the looks of your profile picture. now stop charging me (you are responsible as a voter) for the modern versions of basic human needs.
this topic has been beaten to death throughout all aspects of computing, it always goes like this:
1. someone complains about input lag, because he feels it and it's annoying and prohibitive
2. other people who are slow and / or have misconfigured systems with such worse problems that they don't notice this disagree
3. 7 years later its proven to a wider audience that the lag is there and all the people who said it was there were right
4. the company sells an all new "low input lag" model (which doesn't actually require any money to implement, aside from a few hours dev time)
the problem is people asking idiots who cant program even a simple button, to program serious enterprise, government, and military systems.