I think if you as a parent have router controls and block adult content on their mobile plan if they have one (which I have seen as an option), then you are already doing a lot.

Most routers from ISPs come with “adult” content filtering enabled by default I think, at least the ones I’ve had have had this on.

VPNs already work and I can’t see them not working, so that’s always an option I guess, but they are also still an option with ID laws (ie connect to a region where they have no such laws).

Children’s safety online can’t involve limiting access and tracking everyone who ever goes online with their national ID attatched to every request (basically).

I think it’d be better if we explored the option that involves a parent blocking websites either on your network or on a device they give to you.

Let’s not pretend that these laws actually do protect children…

There is always a way around something and if there’s any population to figure it out, it’s the ones with the most free time.

The difference between going to a bar and using the internet: Showing your ID at a bar doesn’t mean it’s stored on some server possibly ready to be stolen by hackers. It also doesn’t automatically link all of your user data to your id (like it does right now) and make it easier to track your movements everywhere you go.

These laws help no one except the elite. They restrict us, limit access to information and eventually cause our data to be comprimised.

Bad parents exist, but does that mean we lockdown the most expansive knowledge base for everyone? I don’t believe this will stop any children of bad parents from being exposed to horrible things online. Age gates don’t stop that (because they either get bypassed or another site exposes even worse stuff without the age gate).

That’s what the router setting to block adult websites is for… you don’t have to monitor 24/7, have some idea that bad sites are blocked, and you can just be doing regular checkups on your child then.

There is and was never a need to involve IDs, other than more control over us as a whole and being able to extract more data.

I agree with you, though even when I have just made a change myself, I am looking through the git diff like a crazy person.

So, still I think refactoring my own code is much more fun than telling AI to do it for me and then proceeding to review and test it for weeks (allegedly, lol).

You seem to be using it responsibly by asking it how things could be better.

I’d never copy and paste output from an AI or give it free roam to make a PR, etc myself.

I’ll probably be sitting out on this update for a while too until I gage the general reactions of people heh :)

At that point, I think: Why not just write the code yourself?

Writing the code is more fun that reviewing code, not to mention less error prone.

I’m guessing you let the AI make the tests and everything, which wouldn’t give me much reassurance that any of the code is good. Sadly AI will jump through any hoops it can to get tests to pass if it can’t get the code working.

I think people who let AI run wild to create a whole app should write the tests themselves or at least only with line completion (jusdging by a quick look at the project files, I am guessing an AI did everything).

Could be food for thought?

Playstation is next;

80% of the xbox crowd is probably gonna buy a playstation. Maybe a few will go for a PC and the rest for a switch.

Couch goblins that look into the future when considering the cost of a console might find the steam machine worthy when it releases.

There’s value in real privacy friendly VPNs (think Mullvad), otherwise you just end up trusting some other, probably very shady actors with all your data instead.

Unless you need one for specific things like using free wifi safely, torrenting or getting around restrictions then there is not much benefit.

Most VPNs won’t even work for daily browsing as far as I’m aware. You’ll get hit with way more captchas and potentially just not be able to access certain sites because someone has either got the vpn providers ip banned temporarily on the site or the site bans IP addresses associated with servers.

Personally, for generic browsing, I’m not too concerned if my ISP can see the domain names I’m accessing. I, as you probably do, only use HTTPS everywhere so the domain name is the most they’ll know, but you can do some work to try limiting exposure with DNS over HTTPS (DoH), etc if you want to.

There’s also TLS 1.3 addition of ECH which further helps by hiding the hostname.

Of course your ISP will always know the IP address you send packets to, but that is an even smaller problem.

And my final note: just use one when you need to, I don’t think it’s necessary to have one on 24/7 at home like some people advise and NEVER use a free vpn or one of the more mainstream ones (mullvad is best, second choice is AirVPN).

The real impossibility is the work force, as far as my knowledge is knowledged from a while back.

Also if they did move 40% of production to the US, I can’t personally see that meaning the US would drop taiwan and let china take it. If you think about that for 1 second longer, you think they’d surrender 60% to china? If I had the best chips, I wouldn’t let anyone else get anywhere near them, lest they steal the secret recipe. (Just my thoughts on the matter).

(p.s. im not smart so maybe im wrong?)

Pretty annoying because (don’t forget) people in europe are still getting security patches for win10 btw. On each security patch they are specifically ticking “NOT US OR ANYWHERE ELSE” but instead “only eu”.

buddy who has to support Mint installs for work

The “work” part is probably why you have such a bad view of Mint. It could be any OS, but at work there would be a horror story every day (because theres a lot of people, most cant use computers, etc).

The ease of use and not having it break randomly is why you don’t use Arch for normal people who just need to get stuff done.

Think about if you care having all your “eggs” in one basket if you use bitwarden for your passwords too, but if you also store recovery codes in bitwarden then realize that the difference doesnt matter.

p.s. using it in bitwarden if better if you would otherwise not use 2fa

I have bad eye sight, but also 8k probably never need to be a thing on a tv, more impressive for stuff thats closer to our eyes like VR headsets probably.

Yes it is, luckily I was joking, but having a bad password, technically that can happen

If they’re ok with all of that, then by God they truly have nothing to hide.

Now start deleting everything or maybe sending some texts

I’m sure the encryption was disabled post meta buyout IT JUST MAKES SENSE!

Say goodbye to your pinkie

I think they are saying “look at star citizen as the alternative” meaning never finished, but by comparison No Man’s Sky is complete now?

Maybe i’m reading it wrong though.

I’m guessing removing the validation fixed the pasting, which means it did fix the actual problem?

Yees this has happened to me before but with passwords. They have some length limit that they clamp to so you can’t login after registering and I have to do a password reset right after signing up. Happened multiple times to me.