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New comment by kanbara in "Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers"

kanbara — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:33:00 +0000

you dont think the amount of bullying and pressure to fit in on social media by teens isnt a huge problem? this isnt internet forums and online communities of the 90s, it’s in-your-face constant advertising and pressure by peers every second of every day

New comment by kanbara in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

kanbara — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:28:32 +0000

people aren’t saying “aks” to make a public statement against you for whatever reason. they’re saying it because that’s how they learned to speak and the dialect of speakers who they were surrounded with.

yeah, people code switch, but i have come across many many people who just say things differently from the majority pronunciation. they’re not misunderstood and they can communicate just fine (see nucular vs nuclear). that’s just how language works, right

New comment by kanbara in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

kanbara — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:20:28 +0000

i don’t think that requiring in-person “ID”-proofed voting and removing mail-in ballots (which is the best part of voting in CA) does anything to bring people back to reality…

Even if it were a holiday, people may not be able to travel or take time off from obligations. There’s no obligation to drive 2 hours to vote, to fly back if you work in another country, or to go get a new birth certificate because Real ID doesn’t prove citizenship even though you provide citizenship documents to it when you get one…

I’ve heard of a lot of takes here about what we should do for voting to make it “more secure” but all of this is actually a solution for a problem we just don’t have.

New comment by kanbara in "It took four years until 2011’s iOS 5 gave everyone an emoji keyboard"

kanbara — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:23:17 +0000

go tell that to genz who use :skullemoji: or koreans who dislike pinching hand emoji, or anyone who knows what a heart, dollar bills, sleepy face or whatever else means.

we make up words all the time, and they are in fact not all "agreed upon" because language changes, like how awesome used to mean "inspiring awe" and "literally" now means "figuratively" and how "google" and "tweet" are words.

emoji change meaning quicker than words, yes, but that's because the were born online and because they are easier to add semantic meaning to. they're pretty neat, to be honest.

even in a corporate setting we use emoji all the time to +1 things, to confirm something, or on video calls to give kudos, and more.

New comment by kanbara in "University of Texas limits on teaching of "unnecessary controversial subjects""

kanbara — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:28:46 +0000

this is the govt stifling free speech, and fwiw climate is not controversial; climate change is a real and existential threat.

sheltering students who have other (read: conservative) views is anti-knowledge and anti-education.

New comment by kanbara in "The Waymo World Model"

kanbara — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:43:39 +0000

depth estimation is but one part of the problem— atmospheric and other conditions which blind optical visible spectrum sensors, lack of ambient (sunlight) and more. lidar simply outperforms (performs at all?) in these conditions. and provides hardware back distance maps, not software calculated estimation

New comment by kanbara in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

kanbara — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:37:35 +0000

it’s not a difficult strategy to come up with, tbh. tech companies do this sort of thing all the time.

New comment by kanbara in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

kanbara — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:01:31 +0000

iOS did exactly this and it’s so much better for usage

New comment by kanbara in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

kanbara — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:52:20 +0000

how does it add confusion?

if normal people don’t know, criminals/terrorists do, and the materials are commonplace but not screened for, then everything about the current approach is wrong.

and when has a plane been brought down by the evil explosives or stable liquids in recent memory?

so the theatre put in place is just that, huh?

New comment by kanbara in "US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints"

kanbara — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:54:35 +0000

"american" viewpoints aka fascism and naziism and the promotion of white supremacist views. it will take so much time to undo this mess.

New comment by kanbara in "Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]"

kanbara — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 01:26:09 +0000

as if straight / white causes in most western nations aren't "pushed" by default.

it's ok to know that gay people exist and that christianity is not the be-all-end-all of cultural practices.

New comment by kanbara in "Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]"

kanbara — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 01:25:23 +0000

god forbid we teach children that people are different, and they matter, and they can love who they want and practice what religion they want. the horrors!

i hope your kids turn out cishet for their sake and only date white folk, otherwise they're going to be in for a bad time. what's so bad about caring for other people and respecting others?

New comment by kanbara in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"

kanbara — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 05:51:49 +0000

you can't see how asking for a hint and formulating using your own brain is totally different than telling the AI to code the entire thing for you?

New comment by kanbara in "Sodium-ion batteries have started to appear in cars and home storage"

kanbara — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:44:41 +0000

if YOU make a claim, you need to provide proof. simple as. anything else is a logical fallacy or malicious argument :)

New comment by kanbara in "Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules"

kanbara — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:19:10 +0000

no, actually that requires congressional approval, and the government is currently shut down, mostly as a way to defer the release of the Epstein files. nice try, though.

New comment by kanbara in "Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application"

kanbara — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:47:22 +0000

translation is absolutely not “100% solved” because LLMs exist. such a take is underplaying so much cultural and emotional connection it’s laughable. contempible even. if you are an OSS dev and have no money, you can find another OSS dev to help you translate instead of using offensive AI slop.

New comment by kanbara in "[dead]"

kanbara — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:15:22 +0000

it's actually wild; the first thing i thought after seeing the weekend results from recent events was how similar the veneration/usage of CK is to horst wessel. it's blatantly obvious, and quite worrisome for the trajectory of the us.

New comment by kanbara in "After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View"

kanbara — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:09:54 +0000

how can you say you only want cooperation when the viewpoints you and your brethren share are dehumanising, against a peaceful world, against caring for the environment, against minorities, against queer folk, and against international cooperation?

we arent talking about “how many immigrants should we allow”, we’re talking about “trans people shouldnt exist”, “christianity is the true religion”, “deport all legal immigrants”, “gay people shouldnt have human rights”

New comment by kanbara in "After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View"

kanbara — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:40:49 +0000

the man’s speech was against human rights for black people, women, lgbtq+. people are allowed to have free speech against those beliefs too. they are not “average”.

New comment by kanbara in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

kanbara — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:28:52 +0000

it's such an insane american belief that the answer to safety is not: reduce gun amounts, reduce what guns people can buy, improve mental health counseling, improve healthcare, improve quality of life through cheaper housing and well-paying jobs, but instead the copout which doesn't even work--adding armed police outside of every school.

uvalde called, it doesn't work. and the rest of the world looks on in shame at this exceptionally american and exceptionally cruel system.