You’ll probably get downvoted here for mentioning this. But I am with you.
I think we need to get out of this bad mix of insurance and health care being a crisis. But for that to happen, state benefits need to be locked down iron-clad to only us citizens. Not to your general tax payer base but only to US citizens and that includes ACA subsidies. States subsidies should be included in “government assistance” that makes beneficiaries ineligible for citizenship and permanent residency.
That is a problem that shouldn’t need a big discussion to solve in Congress. But given the current political scenarios it won’t.
The bigger risk specifically with roomba may be that people who have connected their roomba’s to wifi and have their floor plans mapped and possibly in the cloud.
Wonder if the deal is going to include transfer of cloud data as well.
There's very low value to the Chinese state to having detailed floor plans of a random person's house. Or even a prominent person's house. A lot of this stuff is semi-public domain regardless as many real estate listings will include a floor plan.
Screen time features exist on most devices. Parents - please set them up. It doesn’t take a lot of effort. I limit my kids for 1/2 hr of screen time per day. I exclude apps like iMessage, phone and maps.
Yeah - they do ask for more time here and there. But it’s pretty well controlled and they adjust to it
Personally (as parent of two high schoolers) I think leaving texting unmanaged is wild. We block social media apps (Snap, IG, etc) and also regular media (YT, Netflix, Disney+, Tubi, etc). Social media because of toxic content and regular media because of distractions. We limit messaging app time to 30min/day, whether it's SMS/RCS, Whatsapp, Telegram, or something else.
By far the most distracting thing for kids is persistent notifications. Snap is the worst for this, but messaging apps are a close second.
Apple’s screen time parental settings are some of the most obtuse and frustrating features I’ve had to navigate on their devices (so much, that I honestly wonder if the people behind it even have kids).
I’m glad they exist but they could be so much better.
My son is too young to use a phone but I plan to use screentime when he’s ready for a phone.
I use screen time for myself, with a 1minute limit for weekdays and 1 hour limit for weekends, for all social media, news and media consumption apps, and my wife has the password (because I have zero self control)
Younger kids are happy to hit the one more minute button for hours to continue doing what they are doing in one minute increments. Older kids are happy to download the shadiest weirdest browsers you haven't explicitly blocked and keep them uninstalled by running them directly from the dmg without dragging them over to the applications folder.
Do you not find unrestricted iMessages to be problematic? Dont groups and content sharing in them end-up fomenting a similar doomscroll dynamic as access to other content rich apps?
Not a whole lot of doomscrolling. There is more engagement - but I’ve resigned to the fact that it’s how kids communicate. For example - if they need to discuss homework or projects or even something simple as plan for boba tea.
I’d rather they walk to their friends’ place. But now they make the plan and then walk to where they need to be.
Sorry, but that's where you're wrong (at least, if you mean enforcing effective limits). What you're asking is for parents to spend their scarce time and energy on fighting a technical battle, against a system that is designed to capture attention, and kids with nothing but energy and time.
>But it’s pretty well controlled and they adjust to it
Or they did 10 seconds of googling and have all the access they want.
My assumption was that they were using a C API just from reading the headline. I don't use Go but these sorts of problems are common to any project doing that in just about any language.
Java is one thing they did right. Most enterprises are looking to move away from Oracle. I think there will be niche cases where rewrites don’t make sense. But for one of the big telecom providers I work for - the decision was made in 2020 to move off of Oracle. It’s not a flash cut but we’ve significantly reduced reliance. There are some critical apps that are still on it, but those are capped in maintenance mode until their replacements are ready.
Well, in these wonderful times we cannot exclude the possibility of entire flows being ran as just prompts, especially moderation and on an AI boo-boo having to roll back by a human. I do believe that's (much) cheaper than human moderation anyway, so it'll grow (even more).
I’ve said this before and cannot be said enough. Palantir is a data platform. I think they optimize for knowledge graphs (ontology). It has several uses. It’s seems to be fashionable to blame Palantir these days. But then wouldn’t you also blame other things - Java and database open source, Python, Linux foundation, etc. for all this.
I think people just want to blame without analyzing what else could be blamed to. Really it’s most of the free software community too.
Disclaimer: I don’t consider what Israel did unlawful. They were under attack by hezb and Hamas. They were within rights to retaliate. And no, hezb and Hamas don’t care about civilian casualties.
Palintir is people, specifically people who are tasked with onboarding customers to use the data platform. They get to choose their users in a way that Java and Linux do not. (I hold no ill will against them, I'd rather Israel win than the other guys)
Yes the foundations can mandate that the tools are forbidden to use in military and intelligence applications.
But they won’t. And I’m fine with that. My point is foundations have licensing power while corporations regulate it through sales. Each decision is connected to money. And no one is going to say no to more money.
I think we need to get out of this bad mix of insurance and health care being a crisis. But for that to happen, state benefits need to be locked down iron-clad to only us citizens. Not to your general tax payer base but only to US citizens and that includes ACA subsidies. States subsidies should be included in “government assistance” that makes beneficiaries ineligible for citizenship and permanent residency.
That is a problem that shouldn’t need a big discussion to solve in Congress. But given the current political scenarios it won’t.
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