Olives @olives@qoto.org

The anti bot algorithm on Tutanota is very aggressive, so it's not one I typically recommend.

Has Star Trek ever shown another galaxy or are they just moving around the Milky Way?

It looks like a lawmaker from the Constitutional Democratic Party in Japan is concerned about financial censorship too.

"we've had #VR since the 90s"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17euo2DzBZI Here's a funny 90s ad for the Virtual Boy.
The quality of the actual games was pretty bad though

It talks about how it's going to change the world and do all these amazing things. There are a lot of hypotheticals and maybes. There is even speculation you might be able to "control it with your mind" in the future (an idea straight out of science fiction).

I'm reading a piece that is supposed to be a serious commentary on the "metaverse" and it reads like some sort of promotional marketing material.

A feature to allow users to block each other probably reduces the amount of work a company might otherwise do in moderation.

So, I don't think "removing the block function to save money" is something that would come up with the typical company.

I wouldn't be surprised if aggrieved people were more likely to respond to a think of the children group's poll.

Parental controls might chill expression too, especially if the parents are looking at the contents of someone's communications (and might undermine trust).

I imagine it being more of a thing for younger ones, rather than teenagers, where education might be a better avenue. Parental controls aren't really an issue I deal with though.

Still, it might be worth considering whether a broad brush approach of treating everyone like they're five makes sense.

I suppose I mangled that broad brush term there in trying to make it short enough to work within possible character limits.

In my defence, I was also recovering from an illness.

Think of the chatter as if anyone might go in and "be harmed", that social media is single-handedly driving mental illness, and that we have to take broad brush sweeping "action".

With katakana, someone typically takes a word from another language, say English, and directly imports it into the language, maybe it's spoken a bit differently.

So, I'm not surprised that one English word or another might not catch on. Also, the meaning / cultural context can diverge from whatever English term it is based on or inspired by.

First off, they might assume that "one site is the Internet", and well, it's not. And someone has to tell them all over again that it's a bad idea.

I'm losing patience for people who talk about "age verification" as if it's simple but don't acknowledge any of the discourse over the past couple of decades about how it's not.

They spoke to their colleagues at the IGF.

That they used to be the whatever Christian association is literally right there on the front page of their website.

I initially considered not putting it on a tag *but the article is just so wrong that I have to*.

Clearly, a bad faith group showed up one day, spoke to a guy who works there, and they just copied everything he said verbatim.

On a second glance, there appear to be more inaccuracies in there. It's a pretty bad article.

While I've seen folks who are more critical of this site, their articles are usually alright and informative, this one though seems to do next to no due diligence and just publishes claims from this weirdo group verbatim.

"while most adults are not up-to-speed with educating young people on how to protect themselves and their privacy and take care of their mental health"
A subject for schools to cover?

"no parental control mechanisms are available"
There are takes which are more sceptical of parental controls, but it probably wouldn't be a big deal, if they added some sort of parental control mechanism. #FreeSpeech #Japan