Quoting: soulsourceTell that to my boss... We have to usesuffer Discord at work...

Just out of curiosity, how old is your boss?

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Quoting: Jarmer$40 ... !!! 😂

$49 in Poland 😤

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Quoting: SalvatosBehavioural analysis to estimate user age without looking at message content… I’m struggling to imagine how that would be effective.

Gonna require making some insane assumptions. I wonder what my "interesting" sleep schedule gets recorded as...

300yo vampire?

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Quoting: williamjcmI hope it'll get released as a Flatpak, because I don't like installing stuff through the AUR or pip.

Exactly. A flatpak or a snap or best both. It's BS for this day and age to not be able to install a damn app with a couple of clicks, honestly 😀

yay -S prefixer *is* a couple of clicks ;p

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> they're using an age inference model / a machine learning model already in the background based on what you do and how you interact with Discord to predict what age group you fall into

btw a few years ago my kid almost got scammed by someone posing as a discord employee performing an age check; luckily at some point he realised he was being scammed (probably when they asked him for cc details); I can't help but wonder how much more of this is going on right now and will appear in the near future. They're talking about how 'external partners' are 'trusted' to handle IDs and facial images, but now it's open season for scammers to contact anyone on discord and ask for ID scan and facial image...

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Quoting: Liam DaweEven if it isn't yet, there's not much to stop governments forcing ISPs to block IRC servers. We've barely begun to see the effects of all this yet, it's going to expand.

I'll just reconfigure my bouncer tyvm.

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Quoting: Liam DaweIt doesn't really matter what alternatives there are - anything chat / social media will end up having to use these types of controls. Otherwise, they will end up getting blocked by various governments.

Is IRC blocked anywhere?

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Quoting: GoEsrI'm left wondering when governments will come for Steam accounts. My account is over 18 years old, so maybe they'll implement the same system Nexus Mods did.

I'm only 13yo in steam years. No sakura games for me. :-/

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I get to be a teen again, nice!

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Quoting: NumerfoltI have been using Kate all the time and was wondering why they would use KWrite instead. Then I opened up KWrite for the first time and thought that it should be quite a good replacement.

Maybe I'm stupid, but isn't it the same program? If I open Kate and KWrite, they look the same. When I open About, the only difference is the name at the top, both show the same info, including "(c) 2000-2024 The Kate Authors" (sic!). However, the kwrite binary is 4x smaller than kate, so I'm probably missing something. Maybe KWrite is like Notepad and Kate is like Notepad++, if you forgive the comparison. ;-)

[edit] Ok, I'm starting to see small differences, like integrated terminal and git in Kate. So I guess it's more like an IDE and KWrite is just a text editor?

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