Jrockwar

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There is a petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, which has a good name but creates a system where we are trading off encryption for backdoors and privacy for age verification. This is literally the opposite of "Online Safety" and I believe it threatens our digital rights as UK citizens.

I'd like to encourage everyone who believes in digital safety and privacy to sign it. The petition is sitting right now at 180k signatures—already past the point for it to be considered for debate in parliament, but higher support would still flag the urgency and importance of this.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 45 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

This is like the equivalent of forcing a monkey to wait tables, and then complaining when it takes a shit in the middle of the restaurant.

It's a language model. What did they expect? If they wanted a software engineer, they should have hired a software engineer. Everyone is more than welcome to use a random text generator to spit out code, but I have zero sympathy for those who complain because they don't like the random text it's generated.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 5 points 21 hours ago

When they finally crash and burn (or sure, when they develop an AGI 🙄) this has potential to be an incredibly dramatic biopic. I hope it gets a good director.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 points 21 hours ago

TIL! I saw the photo and immediately went to wikipedia to confirm that. It looks clearly like a corvid in this photo.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 points 21 hours ago

I think that might have been the ex, this is the new crush.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 208 points 2 days ago (3 children)

🙌 Communist Trump is making all textbooks free 🙌

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 13 points 2 weeks ago

That's quite frequent. My Not-a-doctor, simplified understanding is:

Caffeine doesn't target processes related to dopamine but it's a stimulant. Outside of hyperfocus mode, ADHD brains are constantly understimulated because the lack of dopamine makes things not feel engaging and interesting. This is why our thoughts race, our brain is struggling to find ALL THE THINGS (thoughts, hobbies, worries, plans, memories) that might give it the stimulation it needs.

Since coffee is a stimulant, the brain gets what it's looking for and doesn't need to race through all the possible thoughts, it's happy. The two main problems are:

  • Coffee doesn't have a controlled release or amount of caffeine, so the effects can be at points unpredictable (peaks, crashes, jitteriness, sudden releases).
  • Since it doesn't affect dopamine production/intake/etc, it doesn't help with the "uuuughhhh I can't be bothered to do this" that happens when the brain can't see/understand there is a reward.
[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My fiancé has combined type nominally, but other than racing thoughts and some stimming, he's definitely the quiet type. I would say that's probably the case for many (most even?) AuDHD people, as autism doesn't usually go hand in hand with the endless social battery that the ADHD stereotype portrays.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So the topics discussed are sci-fi, and politics. Not technology then.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Who's "Glenn" and why does he belong in "Technology"? Is he a robot?

What does this post about people ramblings have to do with Technology?

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 14 points 3 weeks ago

I love how rich people in particular love proposing that people have more kids while simultaneously ignoring that people can't afford to have kids.

I can tell you many couples with 2, 1 or even no kids that would have 3, 5 instead if that was something vaguely realistic financially speaking.

Of course you can always compromise and say "I'll have 3 kids but they won't have the chance to go to university, etc." which morally... Sucks. The world is complicated enough to bring someone into it without giving them good chances at succeeding.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago

Well the UK said they have no plans but now they have to actually debate it in Parliament. So it's better than nothing - at least the proposal gets a chance to be heard.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think it's only men either, but it's worth considering the implications and potential causes for what is being said here.

We have had not decades but centuries of macho culture, where mental health is a taboo for men because "I strong, me no cry" and we know that mental health struggles go underreported on men. This is just adding more evidence to a symptom that we already know, of a society that hasn't been able to course correct because it's too set in tradition to allow those who need help to seek it without feeling like garbage.

While I'm not saying this is a problem exclusive to men, I think the causes and effects on women and men are rather different. We've now known for a while that women with mental health issues or disorders tend to go undiagnosed (even more so than unreported). The case of autism is particularly blatant, as women only started to get diagnosed in a meaningful proportion in the 80s (despite autism not being sex- or gender-driven). https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/identity/autistic-women-and-girls

Similarly, that underdiagnosing came from the stereotyping of gender roles and the fact that being quiet and pretty equated being "feminine", which is "good", so can't be autistic, because autistic is bad.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24429387

Article (archive link): https://archive.is/WZjn9

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