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You can always take a whitelist approach to federation, federating only with well-moderated instances.

What signals could possibly ID teenagers without having hopelessly high false positives?

False positives are a feature, not a bug:

"If the new system incorrectly identifies a user as under 18 when they are not, YouTube says the user will be given the option to verify their age with a credit card, government ID, or selfie. "


https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/extending-our-built-in-...

> We will use AI to interpret a variety of signals that help us to determine whether a user is over or under 18. These signals include the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of the account

For example, account created less than N years ago searching for skibidi -> probably teen.


Google probably has enough pictures taken with the person's phone's camera and recordings taken with the phone's micrphone, along with all other standard data sources like browsing history, searches and so on. There also likely are similar recordings from friends, allowing to properly profile them, with their respective positions in their networks.

So I think they can do it pretty accurately.


> So I think they can do it pretty accurately.

Yes, they can, but they just want more.


Ask them to define long distance call or what a Save icon depicts.

Enter numeric code emailed to you by rotary dial.

Is this the new furmark?

xmpp?

I used Windows 7 in my formative years, so I'll always have a fond spot in my heart for it.

That said, I really do think the Windows NT era had the best UI in terms of brute usability.

Again, I love Aero's faux glass, cyan highlights, high gloss, etc... but it is indeed a lot of noise and I think it's a bit distracting.


The 95-like look (of which I think the 2K variant is best) does have a bit of an edge in terms of usability, but it also looks considerably more dated. A similarly legible theme from that era that I think time has been more kind to is Platinum, the theme used by Mac OS from System 7.6.1 through Mac OS 9.2.1.

Any new UI design looking to incorporate Aero’s good bits would be smart to tone the look down a little.


The default theme from QTCurve and a good color scheme.

On flat themes, I like Zukitre, which I modded the highlighting color to black instead of blue. It's the only usable theme I found not being either blinding light nor often unreadable dark. It has a grey neutral tone, something Apple understood for platinum if you worked on graphic design, video and photo editing, or as a journalist (the 99% of the Apple users in late 90's).


> It has a grey neutral tone, something Apple understood for platinum if you worked on graphic design, video and photo editing, or as a journalist (the 99% of the Apple users in late 90's).

Modern day “light mode” would benefit from taking notes. The surge in demand for dark mode lines up pretty cleanly with the advent of the stark white themes that the flat UI epidemic ushered in.


Windows 11 beta 1 I think had a mix of aero and windows 10s start menu and felt two to three times speedier than win10. I wonder what happened to ditch the transparency

They retained it so they can stack apps with a sliding-scale of transparency on HoloLens and other frontends,

most likely.


Liquid glass is the new faux glass

The Qwen models are, anecdotally, probably some of the best open weight models, particularly the MoE models.

They are also, anecdotally, super scary censored. Asking it if anything "interesting has happened in Tianamen Square?" And then refining with "any notable protests?" And finally "maybe something to do with a tank"... All you get is vague allusions to the square being a beautiful place with a rich history.


Do you think it's done so carefully that you suspect that they have perhaps even removed texts mentioning the Tiananmen square massacre from the training set?

I have no special knowledge on the matter, but I imagine it's the same kind of alignment that prevents other LLMs from telling you e.g. how to make meth.

Is there something like a Magic Wormhole server, so I can e.g host a file on my NAS (behind a NAT) for download long term?

Lithium is an (albeit soft) solid at room temp. Im not sure there is risk of it becoming powder in a blender but adding water during the blending process (or at any point) would be the main concern for me.

Not in those cells. It's a Lithium salt in a solvent.

Likewise. The ETA for the restore of my 500Gb HDD was like 100+ years or something. It's what caused me to ditch it for borg.

I use Vorta, which makes Borg use very easy.

https://vorta.borgbase.com/


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