“small government” is just a dog whistle for “lower rich people taxes”.

it’s easy to see it that way when a big corporation is involved, but average people and small businesses get fucked by cybersquatters too. On balance I tend to side against the cybersquatters.

Will not work. None of these kinds of bans has ever worked. Did everyone just forget that they got blackout drunk as minors who could not legally purchase alcohol? Are we under some misguided belief that age verification procedures in this manner can or ever have worked effectively to reduce harm on minors?

Minors may not be 100% alcohol free but that does not mean they consume the same amount with or without age restrictions.

Will actually make the internet less safe for teenagers, as they will now be lying about their age and circumventing the systems in place, which renders all existing protections for them ineffective.

maybe, let’s see how it works.

Is pointlessly age targeted legislation as social media is also bad for adults as well. Its bad because of business practices and lack of ethical considerations in gigantic monolithic international social media corporations.

that’s true for other age-gated things like alcohol and tobacco. there is legislation to protect adults as well as banning use for children.

Is this law parfect? Probably not, but I think it’s a reasonable starting point and at least they are trying something.

I don’t know if this is the answer but I’m glad someone is trying something. will be a good case study regardless.

OP was the one who asked why people don’t use Retroachievements.

adding to his wank bank no doubt.

no, tailscale is still the easiest option.

only if you’re a shitty designer or a consumer with shitty taste.

i’m sure they’re not perfect but i’ve had good luck with C7 ceramic LEDs from amazon.

only if they train it on intelligent data.

probably how it was prompted.

I think this snippet get the gist across:

The money flows in loops: Nvidia invests in AI startups, startups commit to cloud spending, cloud providers purchase Nvidia hardware, Nvidia recognizes revenue, but the cash never completes the circuit because the underlying economic activity—AI applications generating profit—remains insufficient.

Apple’s iOS powered an estimated 4.5% of 735 million smartphones in India by mid-2025, with the rest using Android, Counterpoint Research says.

will be interesting to see if Apple tells them to pound sand.

90% errors isn’t accurate. It’s not that 90% of all facts in wikipedia are wrong. 90% of the featured articles contained at least one error, so the articles were still mostly correct.

there are companies that just provide a good service/product/app without much controversy. unless you’re one of those “capitalism is inherently evil” people.

Sweeney has to answer to his shareholders.

which is like 40% tencent.

for some reason my work is the opposite. they were all lenovo (which were great), but we were forced to switch to shitty dells.

The thing is, VPNs won’t protect your privacy much. Browser fingerprinting technology has achieved its goal. True anonymity online is damn near impossible now.

except for traffic that does not come from a web browser at all. like API calls to download linux ISOs.

or pretty much all remote IT work.

that would mean they should have less tolerance for atrocious writing.