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Australia’s proposed social media ban is deeply concerning and authoritarian. It's disturbing to see how much of the general public supports this measure. Prominent organizations, including Amnesty International, the Australian Human Rights Commission, and Electronic Frontiers Australia, have voiced significant concerns about this legislation: Amnesty International's Explanation of the Social Media Ban Australian Human Rights Commission on the Proposed Social Media Ban for Under-16s...

Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/5 Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace python with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages): <details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ```...

My parents normally give all us adult kids money for Christmas, but this year my mom said she wants to get us actual gifts and asked for wishlists from us. Problem is: I don’t know what to ask for! So, similar to the Gift Swap topic, I thought we could come up with a list of items that are very good/useful/satifying but also less...

I do hope one of you thinks of a better title or a more coherent structure for the overall post. This question was inspired by a comment chain about PFAS in Gore-Tex jackets under a different post here, but it's been a bit of a simmering question for me. When reading through that thread, my immediate reaction was something along the lines of the...

What you got: Top 5 Artists Billie Eillish Lana Del Rey Addison Rae Sabrina Carpenter Dua Lipa Top 5 Songs: Aquamarine - Addison Rae CHIHIRO - Billie Eillish LUNCH - Billie Eillish Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter National Anthem - Lana Del Rey Minutes listened: 52,691 Here were my predictions from a month ago Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~music/1khd/2024_spotify_wrapped_thread Votes: 25 Comments: 65

What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of. If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking...

This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything? Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~comp/1kgx/what_programming_technical_projects_have_you_been_working_on Votes: 4 Comments: 0