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erfgh··on Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order
Russia Today as a television network is banned because you need a license to broadcast and that license can be revoked when it is found that the network broadcasts only propaganda that has nothing to do with reality.

On the other hand, the website of Russia Today is not blocked though it does have some intermittent ddos problems.

erfgh··on Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
I don't want to be that guy but this sounds horrible. You shouldn't treat reading as a chore or as something you have to do in order to watch TV. I think it's better if you let them watch TV for 1-2 hours per day and that's it. Let them read if they want to, don't force them like that.
erfgh··on Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools
What are you talking about? When was it that kids brought TVs to school? Also, when I grew up every kid (well, every boy) had at least one video game console at home but I don't remember anyone ever bringing a console to school. They didn't because it would get confiscated immediately.
erfgh··on Young people are flocking to astrology
Why? If birds are dinosaurs then some dinosaurs are birds. So the ancestors of those dinosaurs are also birds and we can go further and further until the first living thing which was also a bird. So its descendants were also birds. So every living thing is a bird.
erfgh··on Young people are flocking to astrology
If birds are dinosaurs, aren't some dinosaurs birds? So we can claim that birds existed 200 million years ago.
erfgh··on Delts Don’t Lie
I don't understand why you are projecting the build of a few individuals onto a whole society.
erfgh··on What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?
Valve already knew that Nintendo is against emulation prior to sending the letter to Nintendo. The important datum here is that Nintendo has legal arguments why Dolphin is illegal software and that's presumably why Valve decided to drop Dolphin.
erfgh··on LazyVim
One of the basic tenets of Vim is that it is not an IDE. It is a text editor.

By the way, if you need an IDE for Python then you're missing the point of Python.

erfgh··on PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator
You can just pause the game bro. Thank me later.
erfgh··on The man who broke bowling
Maybe because it's not so different from the usual technique as the article wants you to believe. Unless you're a bowling expert you wouldn't even notice it.
erfgh··on Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
You're seeing half the picture. Cancer is, in the large majority of cases, a preventable disease. It is caused mainly by environmental factors, i.e. the modern way of a sedentary obese lifestyle.
erfgh··on Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
You mean they pay to live in that 1 out of 100 buildings of that age that is still standing and on which multiple extensive renovations have been conducted.
erfgh··on Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
A concrete building has a lifespan of about 50 years. Even so, most people wouldn't want to live in a 30 or 40-year old building anyway.
erfgh··on Moving fast with the core Vim motions
Numbers are mostly useful in macros and scripts.
erfgh··on Moving fast with the core Vim motions
I don't see any of those features as improvements. Even when I had to use an IDE (java...) I never enabled any of that.
erfgh··on My Day Away from Reddit
If you can't remember what you read yesterday on the newspaper the problem might not lie with the newspaper.
erfgh··on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
"Work" is not always a production quota assigned by the local commissar.

I agree that working from home can be more productive but your argument is not convincing on its own.

erfgh··on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
Fully expect most people in the discussion to be pro-remote-work. But does anyone have hard evidence that working from home is as productive as working in the office?
erfgh··on Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser
Why do people want constantly new games otherwise they think that something is dead? This is like saying basketball is dead because basketball people only play basketball and not something else.
erfgh··on The U.S. birth rate has fallen by 20% since 2007
I don't understand this mentality. Who told you that you need to own a home to have kids? I don't understand this connection that everyone seems to be making. To me it sounds like an excuse.
erfgh··on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
They can't control the experience you will get on your PC. PCs vary so you could get a bad experience and blame it on Nintendo.
erfgh··on Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens
The problem is that people love touch screens. I could never figure that out. I have always hated touch screens. They are imprecise, dirty, they inevitably hide information when you have to place your hand over them and they make packing information tightly really hard.

But, people love them because they have what appears to be zero learning curve and people hate to learn even the simplest of tasks.

erfgh··on Capturing the Flag with GPT-4
Hum... maybe it runs the scripts and sees the output?
erfgh··on The case for banning children from social media
I am Southern European by the way and I played more soccer than most kids. Even so, it wasn't possible for me to take soccer out of my pocket when I went to the toilet or when I was in bed and should be sleeping or when I was in class.
erfgh··on The case for banning children from social media
I didn't know any kids who were addicted to soccer in the sense of spending 15+ hours 365 days per year playing soccer. It's just not feasible physically.
erfgh··on The case for banning children from social media
That would probably be difficult to enforce. Just ban smartphones if you're so inclined.
erfgh··on The case for banning children from social media
How would you define advertising? If there were no advertisements how would people know about products? They would have to read discussions and recommendations but how would those discussions and recommendations not be considered advertisements?
erfgh··on The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere
Where do you live where young people give a damn about the climate? I find this amazing.
erfgh··on Apple Music Classical
Has anyone used Apple Music on Windows? Probably the worst experience of my life.
erfgh··on GPT-4
Unless the patient agrees. I know that for most things that can go wrong with me I wouldn't have a problem with people knowing.
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