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You don’t have to share anything that you don’t want to, what you’ve described is enough.

On the Internet, a lot of content is selected for its ability to provoke that kind of mental distress. Algorithms that optimize for ‘engagement’ and content is selected by that algorithm is typically things that produce strong emotional responses like fear and disgust.

If you end up consuming a lot of that content your perceptions, behaviors, and reactions change so that you’re extra sensitive to the messages that you’re exposed to. This manifests in things like being more aware of specific phrasing, words, concepts or imagery in your thoughts. This can be uncomfortable. Being upset and angry all the time is not pleasant.

A ways to mitigate this include to avoiding using any online source/phone app that selects which content that you see for you. Things like Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Lemmy, etc. The types of content that surface on these places are the kind that appeals to our worst impulses and instincts. Especially on charged topics where there is a lot more content to select from.

Stick to searching for things that you want to see and not going to places that allow you to passively consume content which is selected for you.

More specifically.

Age verification is a topic that is heavily charged at the moment. A lot of content is being created on the topic and so the ‘best’ content out of this pile is the content that “pushes your buttons” the best. As a result, when you’re consuming a lot of ‘high engagement’ content on emotionally charged topics, you’re exposing yourself to highly refined psychological triggers.

That isn’t to say that these topics are not important, age verification has serious implications that should be discussed. The issues that it is trying to address are also serious and need to be addressed.

The issue is that, in these passive viewing environments, the selection method is biased against you seeing that kind of content. Reasoned debates are not as fun to read than a rant on the topic, after all. The hot takes and angry image macros get all of the upvotes and so the nuanced takes and reasoned arguments are pushed out of your sight. So, you become conditioned towards hot takes and angry images and that sucks.

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I can’t think of a reading that would be misleading. It’s common knowledge (among the people who would care about such an article) that TSMC uses ASML machines, as ASML has a near monopoly on EUV litography machines.

‘Pricey new tool from ASML’ can only mean the high NA EUV machines as ASML really only makes one kind of pricey tool.

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.

Whatever distro you end up on, someone will be in the comments to tell you why it’s the wrong choice.

Unless you’re using Arch, btw

Don’t worry, they’ll let us eat cake

We can already see how this will work out. They get you trapped in their walled garden kingdom.

If you get banned from their services and you can’t access your files, make payments, login to your phone or computer, start your car, etcetcetc.

Not using the right distro is the source of everyone’s problem, according to the community

On one hand, I can enjoy the schadenfreude.

On the other hand, this kind of thing helps to create and maintain the alt-right alternate universe mediasphere. I remember a story coming out of Ukraine where a bunch of guys were making fake ‘news’ sites loaded with advertising to spam ragebait articles for cash. They said that they made way more money by posting right wing content so that’s what they focused on.

Multiply that by a bunch of people and add in adversarial nation’s influence campaigns and you get Donald Trump.

I guess it’s not technically a standard but Steam VR runs on every client OS and streams to any VR headset money can buy over USB or network.

And, to add to this, Valve is about to launch their next gen VR headset.

VR’s major barrier is that to do good, AAA game level, VR you need a pretty beefy PC on top of an expensive headset AND a large enough room to take advantage of the roomscale stuff. That isn’t to say that there isn’t fun games that have low requirements, like Beat Saber and Superhot but for games like Half Life: Alyx you’re looking at several thousand USD in hardware.

I think VR will eventually get there, it offers experiences that you can’t get from a monitor, but right now it’s a niche hobby with a pretty limited library of good titles.

I could be wrong, but any article suggesting “zero-days are numbered” doesn’t pass the smell test.

Yeah, you’re right.

The real story is that it is a bit better at finding bugs. Calling them zero-days and implying there’s some major security implications is just to build hype.

It was able to chain a few of the bugs together to create a RCE exploit in a weakened browser, it’s interesting but don’t go to your fallout shelter just yet.

Earn $10B doing illegal stuff, settle with the FTC for a $10 million dollar fine and don’t have to admit wrongdoing and/or a deferred prosecution agreement with no teeth or oversight.

Skim the comments in Female Dating Strategy on Reddit and you’ll find a lot of them.

The users using terms like ‘pickme’ for women and ‘scrotes’ for men. Misandry in various forms. Often you’ll see a lot of TERF language or open transphobia and disdain for people who are in relationships, etc.

Like with incels there’s the ‘high value man/woman’ fantasy that’s an amalgamation of perfect traits that the various people in their life have failed to meet and the ‘It’s other people’s fault for not meeting my standards that’s why I’m single and not my own toxic behavior and actions’ coping mechanism.

They have their own private forums and communities which are a bit more out there if you can get past the gatekeepers and mods.

Yes, the sky is falling, AI is ending the world, slopslopslop, etc

We know the bit.

They want to do this kind of stuff with your head tracking data.

The newer headsets can do eye tracking/gaze estimation. Useful for some VR things (foveated rendering) but I wouldn’t trust Meta to leave the data on the headset.

What’s ole Whiskey Leaks trying to accomplish here? A creation of bio warfare soldiers?

Burning operational readiness to placate conspiracy theory nutjobs.

The SecDef position must be taking applications.

I’d challenge the author to attempt to discuss topics related to toxic female radicalization on mainstream social media to see the reason.