So-called doll mummies create mainland market worth US$1.4 billion; say toy companions of ‘emotional support’; even ‘smell’ like their owners.

A new “parenting” trend in China is seeing young women embrace “painless motherhood” by raising cotton dolls as their own children.

Hey, long time lurker on lemmy but I have never posted before. I just wanted to express my gratitude to the piracy community for the contributions, philosophy, and megathread which have been extremely consequential in my life. I started my piracy journey about a year and a half ago. I was a broke asf student living off of loans in low income housing with my partner. I watched over the years as the world changed from blockbuster to streaming to everything becoming a subscription. I saw what everyone else was seeing, the transition to rentier capitalism, to a world where everything is a subscription and we own nothing and are expected to be happy. I, the same as all of you, thoroughly reject that notion. You can hardly even buy a dvd anymore, and even if you do, it is expected that you forgoe the convinience of streaming media. I had already been pirating textbooks for years at that point like many of my fellow students, but I started becoming anxious that I would loose access to my favourite shows, movies, and video games. I think the high prices of retro games and not being able to watch pokemon on one streaming service got to me, and then there was that whole always online thing with the crew game and the stop killing games movement. I was done, so I came here. I started off with just a couple of games and movies, but then I decided I wanted my own personal library. I have purchased several harddrives and I store all my games, movies, shows, and books on my harddrives and stream what I can using Jellyfin. I used to think that technology was bad, that it was something that stole your attention span, but ever since I started pirating, I feel like that sense of independence around technology has taken a hold of me. I idealize a world where we all share software for free, media is made for the love of the art, and we don't pay obscene amounts of money for media that we already own. It is my hope to continue expanding my knowledge of computers, and continue to make them work for me rather than the other way around. I am especially excited now that I completed my degree that I can focus on learning about computers more as a hobby. This community has inspired me to take technology into my own hands and I just wanted to express my gratitude for all the good that this community does.

Lawyers for a now-20-year-old woman are arguing that addictive features harmed her mental health in opening statements in a landmark trial against Meta and YouTube, the first of hundreds of similar cases to go to trial.

The plaintiff — identified by her first name, Kaley, or her initials, KGM — and her mother accused the tech companies of intentionally creating addictive platforms that caused her to develop anxiety, body dysmorphia and suicidal thoughts. Lawyers for Meta and YouTube have indicated they will argue that a difficult family life, not social media, was responsible for her mental health challenges.

Speaking on Monday in front of a jury in state court in Los Angeles, Kaley’s lawyer Mark Lanier called social media apps like YouTube and Instagram “digital casinos,” saying the app’s “endless scroll feature” creates dopamine hits that can lead to addiction.

Continuity document for the kernel project: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=102606402f4f5943266160e263c450fdfe4dd981

Ive got a lot of downloaded YouTube videos. I used to play them through Plex back when I ran that, but once I switched to Jellyfin there wasn't a good way to set them up at all. So I was super excited when I found TubeArchivist. All the posts I saw on it seemed to be positive, so I set it up yesterday in Docker.

It seemed to work alright at first, but it took a really long time for the server to start up once I started running the containers. I'm also running Navisphere, Jellyfin, Kiwix, and a Tor snowflake node, which all booted up instantly, but this took 5-10 minutes to be accessible. It also took like twice the Docker resources of all my other containers just to run.

Doing anything in it was super slow too. Logging in was unresponsive, took a couple minutes to load. There was no feedback either so I thought it was just frozen. I had all my videos I had downloaded previously, so I tried importing them and that just brought my system to a complete crawl. It maxed out Dockers allocated resources, even exceeding the CPU allocation. It also caused Docker to crash twice.

Does anyone have any experience with this program? Did I do something wrong in my docker-compose file (I just modified the example in the github repository) or is the program just super poorly optimized? I've been able to run all the other containers on my system just fine. It has a lot of the same functionality as Jellyfin, which does not do this kind of crap. I was so excited but its been a huge letdown. Any thoughts?

So I have some services and wireguard running locally on a "home" network. I also have wireguard, a DNS resolver, and a reverse proxy set up on a remote server. Since I don't want to expose the home IP to the public, to access my services I connect to the VPN on the remote, which then forwards my request home. But this means that when I'm at home, connecting to my local services requires going out to the remote. Is there some way to have the traffic go over the switch when at home, but go over wireguard when away, without having to manually switch the VPN on/off?

I could move the DNS resolver (which handles the internal names for the services) from the remote to the home server. But then similarly every DNS request will need to go through both the remote and home servers, doubling the hops. I'd like to use my own DNS server at all times though, both at and away from home. Which tradeoff seems better?

Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”

“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”

We have another event that invites people over to our side!

Okay here is the thing. I have a garmin forerunner which i love for i can read the screen without my reading glasses. I use it for running and cycling. I pull the data directly from it on my debian desktop and upload gpxfiles. A huawei band9 is used for swimming.

For privacy, and as part of usa ban and leaving big tech wanna leave garmin and strava preferably after data export. User friendly and ease of use play hardly a role.

Any recomandations for self hosted solutions? It looks especially hard to avoid strava to get my swim data from the huawei app exported. Buying new device('s) isn't on top of the list but not out of the question.

Beginning with a phased global rollout to new and existing users in early March, users may be required to engage in an age-verification process to change certain settings or access sensitive content. This includes age-restricted channels, servers, or commands and select message requests.

Ive thought about torrents but they require a paid vpn from what i know? I dont really want to pay, which is why im thinking about piracy because im not made of money and cant afford a vpn. Im just not sure if its possible to be safe and sail the seven seas all for free?

What would you advise i do? what did you do when starting out?

I just wanted to make a post in appreciation of the beautiful experience of running Linux on a Thinkpad as a main system. I picked up my X1 Extreme 2nd gen (now known as the P1) in 2019 and never even booted its Windows OS. Pop!_OS went into it immediately and it has only let me down once (grub screw up that was relatively easy to fix). I'm looking at this system that has been in constant use for almost seven years and I just cannot find a reason to upgrade to the P1. It's just flawless.

Linux on a Thinkpad is the ultimate workhorse IMHO.