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New comment by ian_holt in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

ian_holt — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:02:50 +0000

>In my experience, a decent proportion of people have always been nervous about joining in. I'd wager that for many of the onlookers it isn't driven by a creativity/participation thing, it's just a (pretty normal) fear of embarrassing themselves. Scroll back 30 years and I would undoubtedly be one of those awkward teenagers wanting to join in but scared to do so out of fear of embarrassing myself.

You just described me 40 odd years ago :))

New comment by ian_holt in "Ian's Shoelace Site"

ian_holt — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:09:21 +0000

I wish I knew about this site when I was trying to teach my kids to tie their shoelaces. Man, the hours I wasted and the hair I pulled out back then! :)

New comment by ian_holt in "Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties"

ian_holt — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:54:58 +0000

In addition, to the fact that governments are still run by us mere mortals, is the fact that even the government is unable to 100% to guarantee that our data is "safe" in their hands...

New comment by ian_holt in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

ian_holt — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:52:00 +0000

I agree with that too. Whilst we here in the "Land Down Under" (Australia) seem to have a fixation on NOT wanting to go down the nuclear energy route and we seem rather keen on tearing down our last remaining coal-fired power stations and 'trying' to rely on so-called renewables. From direct experience, our energy costs have gone through the roof and regardless of what our 'wonderful' politicians tell us, that is not going to change any time soon. We seem to want to just give our uranium to USA, Japan, France, and South Korea so they can make cheap energy, whilst we send our best coal to Japan, China & India. Go figure...

New comment by ian_holt in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

ian_holt — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:37:51 +0000

I have a similar issue with the couple of cats we have in our office (known also as my home). Either they want to go outside, get fed (again), or simply just decide they need attention more than I need to work. But still, sometimes it is a nice distraction, and sometimes that distraction is what I needed to help me actually re-focus on the task at hand :)