It was worse. The difference is that now companies are making money off of scaring you with headlines so that you will click, click, click …

If someone populates it and if apps do it. The “debate” is whether this is something systemd should or should not have done.

systemd is introducing birthDate as a user json field, if that’s what you mean with rumor.

The PR to revert that change was not merged:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41179

I’m guessing Ambien

As a Swede these services always sound a bit weird. Here anyone can call the tax authority and ask for the equivalent of your social security number (thus it’s not used as a secret identifier anywhere). Your home address is also public information, as is the amount of money you declare on your taxes and what cars you own.

We get by just fine. I guess the difference is that it’s illegal for companies/employers to misuses that data for advertising and improper background checks - rather than putting it on the persons themselves to “go hide”.

… but to your question: I think all those services are scams. If the information got out there once it will again, and the services themselves could very well just lie about the work they do for you. You have no way of actually verifying.

Latest hobby dev: A Hytale mod. Because I’ve had an itch to scratch since I didn’t test this idea in Minecraft 15 years ago when I made mods there :D

https://codeberg.org/troed/pathinator

Autistic women are very often misdiagnosed since “good girl” syndrome hides some aspects of their difficulties. I know other cases of girls with autism getting ADD diagnoses as well.

My bad - I meant to indicate that she’s finding traits from both ADHD and autism but that they’re predominantly autistic and since they’ve then gone their whole life thinking they have ADHD they’ve never gotten the help they might’ve needed to understand how their autism is affecting them.

Agree. My wife is currently diagnosing adults and according to her she’s getting quite a few patients who were diagnosed with ADHD as children but she’s confident in being autistic. Sure, some of each, but predominantly.

The neurology is of course not exactly the same, but it’s not completely distinct either.

The frequent co-occurrence of autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms may reflect underlying neural mechanisms that transcend diagnostic boundaries.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2652828

Autism and ADHD can be said to belong to the same spectrum, and it’s common to have a little bit of both. We have two kids on the spectrum, where one has level 2 autism (and some ADHD) and the other has level 2 (medium-severe) ADHD (with some autism).

Since effects of ADHD can be mitigated with medicines, the important question for you would be if you feel that “ADHD traits/behavior” is making a negative impact in your life. If so, there’s some use in bringing this up with your healthcare and see if you can get a diagnose. If not, don’t worry about it. Everyone’s more or less on the spectrum - it’s whether we can cope in our daily lives that is important.

(Disclaimer: I’m not a psychologist specializing in diagnosing ADHD and autism - my wife is. Everything that’s correct in this post comes from me paying attention to her. Everything that’s wrong comes from me not having understood)

It’s your assumption that I’m not right. That’s fine.

There are plenty of diverse opinions here. You just don’t recognize them as such since they’re expressed respectfully instead of polarizing.

Correct, but the troll infested discourse in other places polarize everything on purpose to sow discord in society. In Real Life people really are better at voicing different opinions without it looking like pure hatred.

You’re just used to seeing troll factory inflamed opinions on other platforms. On ad-supported social media moderators don’t ban the trolls because “user number go up!”. On the fediverse each user is a cost so when we find bad actors we simply eject them promptly.

I think a good example will be whether the vim fork from “pre-LLM contributions” will become more popular, or not. https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi

To quote Doctorow:

Now we come to the third and final novel AI psychosis, the critics’ psychosis, that AI is an abnormally terrible technology. This is a species of “criti-hype,” which is when critics repeat the hyped-up claims of the companies they’re targeting, but as criticism

(read the whole post, of course)

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/normal-technology/#bubble-exceptionalism

Max to Indycar 2027

Go Alonso!

Germany refuses to implement different electricity zones within the country, something we implemented because the EU told us to. In this case maybe it is Germany that should leave then?