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Automotive research firm finds that Tesla has higher frequency of deadly accidents than any other car brand

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but does anyone else feel like technology - specifically consumer tech - kinda peaked over a decade ago? I'm 37, and I remember being awed between like 2011 and 2014 with phones, voice assistants, smart home devices, and what websites were capable of. Now it seems like much of this stuff either hasn't improved all that much, or is straight up worse than it used to be. Am I crazy? Have I just been out of the market for this stuff for too long?

Highlight, bird-wise at least, of a walk round Calleva Atrebatum today, posing for many shots on that barbwire, though being backlit by the sun did pose a few problems.

Canon R6 + RF800mm, F9, ISO12800, 1/1250s

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22786291

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The Daniel Jones era in New York is now officially over.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22786291

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The Australian government’s proposed social media ban for under-16s has sparked widespread debate, affecting millions of young Australians, their families and educators. But will it actually work?

While the aim behind this ban is to protect children from online harm, it appears to be more of a kneejerk reaction to win votes.

In a world where technological advancement is accelerating and online communication is part of our everyday lives, teaching children about safe online use, rather than imposing bans, is a more effective way to protect them from harm while still allowing them to be technologically savvy.

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The Finnish approach

Finland’s approach to digital literacy education is comprehensive and integrated. It aims to equip citizens of all ages with the skills to navigate the digital world effectively.

Finland’s education system embeds digital literacy as a fundamental component of its curriculum, integrating technology across all grade levels to prepare students for the digital age.

From preschool education, students are introduced to digital tools, safety and technology to learn responsible online behaviour. As Finnish academics Sirkku Lähdesmäki and Minna Maunula highlight:

creating a secure and empowering connection with media is a shared educational responsibility that necessitates the active participation of both schools and families.

Integrating digital literacy into the education system ensures skills are not taught in isolation, but embedded across the system.

Digital literacy in Finland extends beyond formal schooling. Public libraries and community centres offer programs to improve skills among adults, ensuring that digital literacy is a lifelong pursuit. As they say, digital competencies are civic skills.

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In addition, the education system was reformed to emphasise critical thinking. This taught students to identify bots, understand image and video manipulations, and recognise half-truths and false profiles. The approach has been practical, with Finland ranking first out of 35 countries in a digital media literacy index measuring resilience six times in a row.

Are there any cases of authors/writers that have intentionally stolen a character name from another work?

https://youtu.be/u0XzbmRl9vM

Senator Mark Warner’s letter follows an ADL report about extremist content on the platform.

US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has sent a letter to Valve CEO Gabe Newell asking if the company intends to take measures to curtail extremist content on Steam. The letter references a report by the Anti-Defamation League that identified a large number of user accounts and user-created groups “that glorified antisemitic, Nazi, white supremacist, gender- and sexuality-based hate, and other extremist ideologies” on the PC gaming platform.

The letter features a high-level view of the kind of hateful content the ADL found on Steam. That includes “40,000 groups with names that included hateful words, with the most prominent being ‘1488,’ ‘shekel,’ and ‘white power’.”

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28473695

I was able to get a list of the most recent anime from aniwave using this reddit thread Goofhey made: https://old.reddit.com/r/animepiracy/comments/1f2xbg7/archived_aniwaves_12000_anime_pages_on_wayback/ and scraping all 411 pages archived in the wayback machine. Back in March I built a web scraper using python requests and beautiful soup and got a list of all of aniwaves current anime sorted in alphabetical order. I compared that list to what was most recently saved in wayback machine by Goofhey. I discovered that some anime were missing. I guess its because the pages saved by Goofhey in the wayback machine were sorted by recently updated and since recently updated is constantly changing it caused some anime to be excluded but I think I got all or most of them by combining both list. Then a using a Disqus scraper I made I fed it links from the list I made and downloaded the comments. I tested the scraper on various sites(myasiantv, gogoanime, aniwave) the scraper can most likely work on most websites that use disqus with a bit of tweaking.

I also managed to get all of Gogoanime's old comments from before 2021 going all the way back to 2014/2015. Something interesting I found is that a few copycat websites(6anime, gogoanimes) still have all of gogoanimes old comments from before 2021. I have a few questions regarding this and I would appreciate if anyone can answer them.

1. What happened to the old gogoanime comments? and why couldnt the Gogoanime admins get them back if a copycat site was able to do it?
2. New disqus threads for new anime are still being made with the same disqus link structure as the old comment threads how are these new threads being made?

The Aniwave(9anime) comments currently have a few problems that I will fix later:

currently missing some glitched/merged comment threads

Imgur images didn't download properly

Some images were downloaded twice(as the scraper was downloading I made changes to how images were named and ran it again)

Most commented pages on each site sorted from most(Aniwave) to least(Anitaku) amount of comments:

Aniwave(9anime): Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 3 Episode 1

Gogoanime Old comments: Yuri on Ice Category page

Anitaku(Gogoanime): Kimetsu no Yaiba Yuukaku Hen Episode 10

Folders were compressed into tarballs with zstd level 9 compression:

Aniwave(9anime): TOTAL GB UNCOMPRESSED: 69.2 GiB TOTAL GB COMPRESSED:17.4 GiB

Gogoanime: TOTAL GB UNCOMPRESSED: 84.8 GiB TOTAL GB COMPRESSED: 48.2 GiB

Anitaku(Gogoanime): TOTAL GB UNCOMPRESSED: 16.6 GiB TOTAL GB COMPRESSED: 1 GiB

Inside each of the anime folders, you will find 3 types of files that end with 'part X.json,' 'full.json,' and 'simple.json':

Part files - downloaded from disqus and unmodified and contain a maximum of 100 comments

Full - concatonated all part files

Simple - Full file with info stripped out to make more readable by human eyes

DOWNLOADS:

Aniwave(9anime) Comments: https://mega.nz/file/RfgliKJR#kV9MXkEYC-5tqS9A4ZenOMoQKKxpj_ujNadzKeu--qs

Anitaku(Gogoanime) March 2024: https://mega.nz/file/FDBngTQB#p3GMrhPpBY893GLBUJfBePwDOYsKFWmpRyarFlGWCZs

Gogoanime Comments Before 2021: Unfortunatly the compressed file size for Gogoanime is 48.2 GiB and I dont know how to share it since I ran out of free storage space. I will make another post when I figure out how to set up a torrent and also add the link here

Slay gorl, slay all day 💅💅💅 Was gonna make it metaphorically represent people designing Breeze, but idk about that rn lol.

IA has full res images BTW: https://archive.org/details/katie-makeup

[If I forgot something AGAIN I might cry] [Feedback would be VERY VERY much appreciated :>]