That’s lots of loot for Sanraku alone. Do the other two also get some Wethermon-related drops? I’m most interested in what game lore they got, though.
The death blow was Sunraku's, so he presumablly got the best loot. The other two might have gotten something from the mech-horse, although anything that was in Pencilgon's inventory would have dropped when she died, if I'm understanding the system correctly.
Then, in my opinion, you would have failed to perform due diligence. Even if you'd thought C.O. was an adult, suggesting a woman strike up a private conversation with a man neither of you know is always something that deserves a second look (dating sites excepted), because the potential for harm is regrettably high.
Snapchat is not the only problem here, but it is a problem.
If they can't guarantee their recommendations are clean, they shouldn't be offering recommendations. Even to adults. Let people find other accounts to connect to for themselves, or by consulting some third party's curated list.
If not offering recommendations destroys Snapchat's business model, so be it. The world will continue on without them.
It really is that simple.
Using buggy code (because all nontrivial code is buggy) to offer recommendations only happens because these companies are cheap and lazy. They need to be forced to take responsibility where it's appropriate. This does not mean that they should be liable for the identity of posters on their network or the content of individual posts—I agree that expecting them to control that is unrealistic—but all curation algorithms are created by them and are completely under their control. They can provide simple sorts based on data visible to all users, or leave things to spread externally by word of mouth. Anything beyond that should require human verification, because black box algorithms demonstrably do not make good choices.
It's the same thing as the recent Air Canada chatbot case: the company is responsible for errors made by its software, to about the same extent as it is responsible for errors made by its employees. If a human working for Snapchat had directed "C.O." to the paedophile's account, would you consider Snapchat to be liable (for hiring the kind of person who would do that, if nothing else)?
Actually, Gentoo has no restrictions against packaging closed-source software, or even for-pay software. The net-im category is full of closed source.
Closed-source games rarely get packaged, and almost never in the main tree, in part because they all have to be fetch-restricted. The system can't predict whether you bought from Steam or GOG or some smaller store, or whether you have a means of downloading from that store without user interaction, so it has to send you to download the package yourself and place it in the source directory. That's considered a black mark against the package. (There was someone a few years ago who was packaging GOG games in an overlay, but they don't seem to be doing it anymore.) In general, no distro will package this stuff—you're better off installing Steam and having it manage your games.
As for build times, get used to letting updates involving large packages run unattended overnight. Sort out the dependencies, issue an emerge with --keep-going, and go to bed. Works for PI3s and my Athlon64x2 laptop, anyway. (If this is still intolerable for you, maybe Arch would be a better fit?)
Finally, you may not be aware that the most complete list of Gentoo-packaged software available is not on the official site, but at gpo.zugaina.org, which also indexes ebuilds in overlays and Bugzilla.
Yes, they should. They chose to deploy the algorithm rather than using a different algorithm, or a human-curated suggestion set, or nothing at all. It's like a store offering one-per-purchase free bonus items while knowing a few of them are soaked in a contact poison that will make anyone who touches them sick. If your business uses a black box to serve clients, you are liable for the output of that black box, and if you can't find a black box that doesn't produce noxious output, then either don't use one or put a human in the loop. Yes, that human will cost you money. That's why my suggestion at the end was to use a single common feed, to reduce the labour. If they can't get enough engagement from a single common feed to support the business, maybe the business should be allowed to die.
The only leg Snapchat has to stand on here is the fact that "C.O." was violating their TOS by opening an account when she was under the age of 13, and may well have claimed she was over 18 when she was setting up the account.
It's unfortunate, but the people most harmed by this will first need aircraft to get to the corporate headquarters so they can use the torches, since a lot of these places have no other easy way in or out. (Burning individual stores just means that there will be nowhere in that community to buy food at all.)
Isolated northern communities have always gotten the short end of the stick. For everything. Made even worse when the ice roads don't do well, which I don't think they did this year.
Depends on how "free" is defined. The US isn't known for government meddling in what the media is allowed to publish, which is usually what people are talking about when "freedom of the press" comes up.
Bunch of things going on here.
On the one hand, Snapchat shouldn't be liable for users' actions.
On the other hand, Snapchat absolutely should be liable for its recommendation algorithms' actions.
On the third hand, the kid presumably lied to Snapchat in order to get an account in the first place.
On the fourth hand, the kid's parents fail at basic parenting in ways that have nothing to do with Snapchat: "If you get messages on-line that make you uncomfortable or are obviously wrong, show them to a trusted adult—it doesn't have to be us." "If you must meet someone you know on-line in person, do it in the most public place you can think of—mall food courts during lunch hour are good. You want to make sure that if you scream, lots of people will hear it." "Don't ever get into a car alone with someone you don't know very well."
Solution: make suggestion algorithms opt-in only (if they're useful, people will opt in). Don't allow known underage individuals to opt in—restrict them to a human-curated "general feed" that's the same for everyone not opted in if you feel the need to fill in the space in the interface. Get C.O. better parents.
None of that will happen, of course.
Are there even cases where trans women are creating issues?
Pretty sure that's purely a right-wing boogeyman. And, let's face it: a man who wants to spy on women in a washroom just needs a janitor's coverall and some small cameras they can plant while "cleaning" or "performing repairs".
We've mostly grown used to being ignored—why change now?
If you're really against Pis, you could get one of the USB-controlled modules and try hooking it up to something like a LattePanda, but that's going to be more expensive.
You could also theoretically get a cell modem chip from a company like Quectel and design the supporting add-on board yourself for any SBC of your choice, but I suspect that's further down the rabbit hole than you want to go.
So, yeah, the Pi is probably the smartest choice if you really want to do your own hardware build instead of just buying a PinePhone.
If I were handing out letter grades for space probes and landers, they'd get a C on this one (maybe C+ if they somehow manage to get significant payload data back over the very low-bandwidth link they've been able to establish). Why? Well, first of all, they actually made it to the moon rather than stalling out in orbit or wandering off in the wrong direction. Secondly, the probe soft-landed, rather than plowing a new crater and spreading parts all over a kilometer radius, and it was in good enough shape to phone home. They got two out of three of the most important things right. Now they just have to work on keeping it upright on the way down.