Privacy ≠ Anonymity.

They are not the same thing, and proton are very transparent about what they will and won’t do in this regard.

Could you link to an article or a write up on the stuff you’re referencing so I can look into it more, please?

I think there are a lot of factors.

1. Wealthy Americans often already have access to or utilize services that would help someone with ADHD manage their symptoms regardless of whether they get a diagnosis or not.

2. There are so few affluent Americans left that it’s a significantly small percentage of the population already, meaning though they are more likely to have a diagnosis available to them, they make up a small percentage of people who actually have ADHD.

3. Poor people have less overall knowledge about learning disabilities and Neurodivergences on the whole. They assume that because they also have the same symptoms (which they don’t recognize as symptoms), it’s a matter of laziness, a moral failing, or a lack of work ethic/ability to buckle down).

Also If you’re poor, it’s likely that you may not be evaluated at all (which is part of the reason so many adults are now being evaluated and the percentage of adults who have ADHD has gone up rather steeply).

Also also if you’re poor (especially if you’re a minority) you may not get a diagnosis because there’s a stigma attached to it (nobody want to admit there’s “something wrong” with their kid developmentally).

4. When I was a kid, there was also a lot of assumptions about who could have ADHD (girls “didn’t” get ADHD, it was a boys disease). And ADD was considered a separate thing. If my mother hadn’t worked in the education system it’s likely I and my siblings never would have been tested at all.

5. Support systems in schools are lacking, underfunded, understaffed, and unsupported. Lots of kids fall through the cracks, even when they aren’t neurodivergent.

6. Even less people have access to mental healthcare and for those that do it’s still exorbitantly expensive even with insurance.

7. Without healthcare it’s unlikely that you can get access to medication. ADHD meds are considered narcotics /schedule 2 drugs. Can’t get them without a prescription.

8. Some doctors have a propensity to treat people looking for a diagnosis as addicts looking for a fix. It’s not just doctors (looking at you pharmacists).

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9. The symptoms a lot of us share are at odds with the way the medical system works, meaning we’re likely to have trouble getting the will to talk to the doctor, have trouble keeping up with appointments and doing tasks that might be required. I was diagnosed as a kid and I still haven’t talked to my doctor about getting further help when I already have a diagnosis.

To be clear, doctors who specialize in this often have a more streamlined process with our symptoms taken into account but just getting to that point where their system can take effect is daunting. The medical care system in this country as a whole works against us.

I’ve never thought of Roblox as being bad. I think it as being dangerous (for the reasons you state), but I also think of it as a “for us by us” kind of deal. Meaning it’s a place and a game(s) for kids.

My son isn’t allowed to play it in our house (if he goes to visit family or friends I don’t make restrictions on that), and I have the same rule for pretty much all online games including things like Fortnite. This is mostly because of voice chat.

I do think the benefits you list are an important part of the conversation that don’t get brought up much.

I don’t like people but I like them more than I like AI.

I also grew up in the 80’s when you’d ask an older sibling to beat the boss for you.

I would rather pay another human being to TeamViewer in and beat the boss.

Good Lord.

It’s likely that Apple already has age data on you because they collect all kinds of data including payment details from you. If you use any paid apple service (pay for apps on the app store, pay for music, or cloud services, use the air tags etc), it’s likely they already know your age.

The reason to be worried about this isn’t because now apple has this information, but because of the progression of this information being demanded, shared, and hoarded by less secure age verification services.

Anyone hoarding personal identifying information is a target for criminal enterprises that want that information.

Apple can be hacked, but you have to evaluate your threat model and what information you’ve already given them, as well as what information is already out there on the internet about you.

https://www.explore.com/1694862/unexpected-reasons-why-airlines-hate-use-airtags-luggage/

They weren’t the only airline to give pushback against the use of air tags, but they seem to be the only one being accused of attempting an outright ban.

Nobody wants the AI. They mean nobody wants to be auto-opted into AI so that you have to go in and turn it off.

“US Supreme Court declines to hear arguments of whether or not AI can hold copyright on its outputs” is a better/more factual headline.

Are airlines still actively disallowing the use of trackers like these to track luggage? Because they were very unhappy when apple users were using air tags to do this and instituted policy against it.

There are people in the world who think addiction doesn’t exist full stop. That’s part of the reason I used gambling addiction as an example.

You aren’t going to convince people who don’t believe. It’s not worth it to try to remind them because they aren’t going to change their mind unless they experience it in their real lives.

But the problem here is that the aim of this group isn’t to bring awareness of porn addiction, and advocate for the people afflicted with it. The main aim of this group is to further their religion based vendetta against the porn industry. That’s actively harmful to people like you who have an addiction. Specifically because it makes other people take you less seriously.

And yet here you are trying to (at best) hitch your sail about pron addiction to an article and discussion about a group that are actively harming you, who also did a bunch of illegal shit to people who studied the group and released information about it that wasn’t flattering to them

Those illegal actions include doxxing and inciting people to sexually assault one of those researchers.

Maybe read the room.

We put legal caps on who can gamble and where not because it can be addictive but because it can have damaging affects on anyone who uses money because it is a game of chance, at which you can lose, and it requires an adults ability to make decisions about property (where the law doesn’t recognize the property of minors).

Fundamentally what you are arguing is that there are people who have an addiction and you want advocacy for those people, at the cost of the freedoms of other people, because that’s exactly what this co-opted group is trying to achieve. That’s why you receive pushback against your comments.

Addiction is a psychological medical issue. If you have an addiction it’s very likely that you need medical help to deal with that addiction and treat/overcome it. That doesn’t mean that lawfully people who don’t have that addiction should be forced to put themselves in danger to have whatever materials you happen to be addicted to.

It doesn’t say something like that specifically because it isn’t an algorithm that receives x input and spits out Y. It’s an algorithm that receives x query and spits out the most common variant word that comes after “query” . If there isn’t a most common word that makes sense to a human, the AI doesn’t know that and so it still gives the most common word in its training set.

If the query is “Juicy” it may output “melons” . If “melons” were not available in its training set it might output “grapes” or “cherries” , but if those weren’t available it might output “apple bottom jeans” which would have made sense in 2003 but likely wouldn’t make sense to the average kid today who’s never heard of juicy couture.

It doesn’t understand anything. It can’t reason.

I don’t think businesses are going to be getting any CPU’s to make new PC’s during this shortage either. The average budget laptop cost has skyrocketed.

CPU upgrades? What CPU’s? Are the CPU’s in the Microcenter with us, Microsoft? Can you show us on the shelf where the mystical CPU’s are?

Is the shortage a mirage? Our imagination?

Yes, I’m sure we do, but while things like Battleye and Easy Anti-cheat, and so on do work on Linux to an extent, but they don’t really have access to the Linux kernel.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058730

I don’t think that people are demonizing them for attempting to migrate to Linux.

I’m pretty sure (because of my own reaction to this news, as well as the other comments) that it’s to do with people’s dislike of kernel-level anti-cheat and EA’s attempt to bring that to Linux.

I’m still not gonna buy games with anti-cheat, EA.

I use twitch for one thing and it’s literally to help support a friend of mine. He streams as part of his job to make money. You can’t currently do that on other websites and get the same benefit.

I have never liked twitch but I have a pretty valid reason for using it. He wouldn’t reach the audience he does there anywhere else except YouTube who don’t pay much if anything for streaming and take a more significant cut of donations.

People won’t leave because the viable options aren’t giving the same benefits, and it’s not just about the viewers, but also the content creators.