The solution to all of this “think of the children” stuff is that devices owned/used by children should have to be registered as a child’s device, which would enable certain content blockers.

That’s kinda the case right now already, but the problem is that adult-only sites don’t work with that currently.

So the right solution would be to mandate that e.g. all sites are required to return a header with an age recommendation or something similar, so that a device set to child-mode then can block all these sites. And if a site doesn’t set the header, it will also get blocked on child-mode devices

Wouldn’t be too hard to do, and accidental overblocking would only occur on child-mode devices, so there’s not much of a loss there.

Legislation could then be focussed on mandating that these headers aren’t falsely set (e.g. a porn site setting the header to child-friendly).

I guess this vulnerability has been ignored for years, because hackers also ignored it for years.

There’s not a lot you can gain from this kind of vulnerability.

If the doctor is unimportant enough to have a helipad, the doctor can come to the billionaire.

I first understood that maybe 15 years ago, when I was in the UK during the supposed mass riots there. My parents read about that in the media (European public service broadcast news) about the anarchic circumstances and were worried about me.

I was in one of the cities hit hardest, according to the media, and my flat was actually right at the location this was about.

All that really happened was a single demonstration that was mostly peaceful without any vandalism. That’s it.

It’s essentially not different than the current situation from an exploitability aspect.

Currently every human being owns one “commercial robot”, aka their body. Theoretically this means that labor is distributed: Every person can perform the work of one person.

But that doesn’t stop capitalism to exploit that labor unfairly. A worker earning a company €1, gets only a very small fraction of that money.

That’s literally the system we have now.

And we aren’t even getting into what kind of robot one owns and that these robots perform wildly different depending on the task at hand (factory robot, vacuum cleaner robot, anything in between, …)

Loss is incredibly boring. It’s become the millenial equivalent of a boomer joke. Might have been funny 17 years ago. But that was 17 years ago. Get a new joke.

Every single one so far.

Tell that to British midlanders: “Can I have a glass of wo’a?”

Imagine an episode of House, but everyone except House is an AI. And he’s getting more and more frustrated by them spewing nonsense after nonsense, while they get more and more appeasing.

“You idiot AI, it is not lupus! It is never lupus!”

“I am very sorry, you are right. The condition referred to Lupus does obviously not exist, and I am sorry that I wasted your time with this incorrect suggestion. Further analysis of the patient’s condition leads me to suspect it is lupus.”

Booring. Find a new joke.

The advantage of self-hosted WoW is that you can cheat to your heart’s content.

So no more grinding if you don’t want to.

That’s an actually good one!

There are some companies as bad as Apple (John Deere comes to mind), but it’s certainly not the norm.

User-replacable standard m.2 SSDs are bog standard and non-standard formats are really rare. Apart from Apple I can not think of many companies that do that. IIRC Red Magic cameras, and Synology NAS but that’s the only ones I can think of.

Some of them were

GrapheneOS without any invasive apps is really bare-bones and limited, that’s what I wanted to say using hyperbole, but I guess figures of speech are too advanced for some people.

That’s more than fair :)

That’s my issue with AI. I go to AI after my skills, the documentation and google failed me. Then I go to ChatGPT to get lied to, because ChatGPT doesn’t know either.

And almost without fail, AI doesn’t help me there.

The only thing where AI helps is AI autocomplete in die IDE, if I am doing something very simple and monotonous, then it helps me to sometimes reduce my typing speed a little bit compared to regular autocomplete.

But typing time is like 0.5% of the time I spend developing stuff.

Yeah. If you never install software that is.

A C64 doesn’t run invasive software either.

Did you not read what I wrote?

Inflation went up due to the knock-on effects of the sanctions. Specifically prices for oil and gas skyrocketed.

And since everything runs on oil and gas, all prices skyrocketed.

Covid stimulus packages had nothing to do with that, especially in 2023, 2024 and 2025, when there were no COVID stimulus packages, yet the inflation was much higher than at any time during COVID.

Surely it is not too much to ask that people remember what year stuff happened in, especially if we are talking about things that happened just 2 years ago.

No, it just amplifies it.

Before, as a photografer you might get stuck with a soulless stock photography job. Now that crap is AI generated and you don’t have a job at all anymore.