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  • A single alarm via an app works just fine to wake me up, that isn’t my issue.

    Multiple alarms in a day is because I use alarms as reminders as well. ‘Remember to do x on y date at z time’. I can get quite fixated on tasks and forget to take breaks on time.

    All I need is a replacement app where I can set alarms on a recurring schedule and/or at a specific date. The standard clock/alarm app that’s been on my various phones has been great until the current version decided to make this change, dismissing multiple unrelated alarms all at once instead of just the one that’s actually about to go off.

    Now I’m looking for an equivalent alternative and seeing what peoples recommendations are for that.









  • Instead of addressing the horn sound itself, I’ve addressed the underlying need/desire for it.

    Addding a sorry button wouldn’t make things safer or chill tempers, it’d just empower more people to make dangerous moves; playing it off as fine because ‘I pressed the sorry button, people should be ok with me endangering them’

    The rules of the road exist for good reason. When people don’t follow them, it effects more than just themselves and has cost many people their lives through no fault of their own.

    Be a better driver; don’t make others pay for your poor planning and judgement.

    Even OP appears to agree with this, given their reply and upvote on my comment.


    A good example of why humanity is doomed: people are shackled to their reflexive need to jerk off their egos at any and every opportunity they see rather than focus on thinking.

    An interesting double-standard you have there.

    Implying I’m somehow a bad person for pointing out and discussing the consequences of these choices instead of just patting OP on the back and agreeing with their desire - without actually providing any meaningful counter argument to what I’ve said.


  • Disgusting.

    https://balleralert.com/appeals-court-ai-generated-child-abuse-images-first-amendment-ruling/

    The legal reasoning runs through two Supreme Court decisions, both of which predate generative AI by decades. The first is Stanley v. Georgia in 1969, which held that a person has a constitutional right to possess obscene material in the privacy of their own home, even when the state can ban selling or distributing it. The second is Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition in 2002, which held that virtual child sexual abuse material, meaning depictions that do not involve any real child, is not child pornography under the law and cannot be banned on the same basis. Actual child sexual abuse material remains illegal to possess anywhere under Osborne v. Ohio.

    What the appeal covered is the part getting lost as this circulates. The Seventh Circuit ruled only on the home possession charge. The charges against Anderegg for producing and distributing the material are still pending. So is the separate charge for allegedly sending similar AI-generated sexual images to a 15-year-old boy over Instagram.

    The court did not rule that making this material is legal, did not rule that sharing it is legal, and did not dismiss the case against him.

    They have decided just the possession part is legal under current case law/precedent, however they have not yet decided on the legal merits of the creation or distribution that material.

    The scope is narrower than the headline suggests. Riana Pfefferkorn, a policy fellow at Stanford, pointed out that the ruling does not protect downloading images from a third-party website, and does not protect carrying a phone or laptop containing the images outside the house. That distinction has already been tested. In a January 2026 case, U.S. v. Yener, a court followed the Anderegg reasoning but reached a different result because the defendant’s phone containing the material was found on him at a diner and in a storage unit rather than at his residence.


  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.catoShowerthoughts@lemmy.worldA sorry horn for cars
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    23 days ago

    “A bad driver never misses their exit”

    Sometimes you make a mistake and miss your exit or end up in the wrong lane. That’s on you. Re-route, follow the lane you’re in, take the next safe turn/exit/lane change to get back on track; you don’t just cut in line, forcing others to correct for your own mistakes. That’s a great way to create unsafe conditions, end up in accidents, and hurt people. It’s not just about peoples ego/anger, it’s genuinely dangerous.

    Your father doesn’t need a ‘sorry’ button, he needs to correct his poor driving behaviour and not endanger himself, you, or others on the road.







  • I got a photo of his drivers license shortly before that, (needed his ID to close and cash out an RESP that had been setup for me in 2007).

    In his DL photo, he looks like he’s had a really rough time since we left. Like he’s aged 30 years in half that time. The metadata of the photo shows it was taken at his moms house.

    Serves him right.

    Part of me sent the videos to see if he cared, part of me just wanted to make him remember he had a happy family and a fairly good life; until he ruined it.

    Life hasn’t been easy for any of us, but this side of the family at least still has eachother. It’s the only thing that’s kept us going TBH.





  • My mother returned to Canada to visit her mother who was slowly dying of ALS. (Where I was born. We had moved to my fathers home country when I was 10, to see his side of the family and experience more of the world)

    During her whole absence, my father cheated on her with various women, even taking me on a couple of his dates. When she got back and found out, she decided to leave permanently.

    I (12m) was given the option of staying with either. I chose to go with her.

    In the last week before I was to leave; he said he wanted to spend time with me and took me out to a couple ‘fun tourist attractions’. A jet boat ride, a zipline, some random park. Each of these, he brought one of his girlfriends that he’d been cheating with (not the same one each time). We also went to at least one of their houses, as well as his weed dealers hidden under-house grow-op/party room thing. More focused on his dates than actually spending any time with me. Avoiding time with me had been a common theme throughout our lives/relationship.

    I later learned he’d abused my older step-sister when she was much younger…

    I’ve deliberately not spoken to him since. ~15 years later I sent him a couple old family videos I’d digitised (with my sister censored out of them), of when I was born and a few of the years immediately after. Mostly as a reminder of what he threw in the trash.

    From what I’ve heard, he ended up homeless and jobless for quite a while and now lives with his mother.