We can just do this.

outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service

This is likely to be the case in practice, but technologically, it does not have to be the case.

If the age verifiers (which IMO should be the governments themselves^[1], but could also be a private third-party, as long as it’s not the same as the social media company) only ever receive a blinded token representing the user, verify the user’s age, and then the user brings that token back to the social media site, unblind it, and present them the signed token, there is no way for the age verifier to track which sites a person visits, and no way for the sites to have any detail about who their users are (other than what they already have).

A friendly reminder that cars are still highly destructive, whether powered by petrol, battery, or hydrogen, and whether driven by a human or automation. The only real environmentally, economically, and socially responsible solution is to drastically reduce the amount of trips made by car, by introducing road diets and modal filters, by having mixed-use medium or higher density zoning, by building high quality safe separated bike paths, and good quality, frequent, affordable public transport.

Also, keep your pets on your property. If there’s no way to keep them from leaving your yard, keep them inside. It’s better for them (they live longer on average, even if you control for the increased likelihood of getting run over) and for the environment.

IMO the bad grammar adds to the quality of this meme.

I’m not sure what “piece linked” you’re talking about, since none of the parent comments of this comment actually have a link in them.

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of FUTO, but I did read their statement about open source and it sounds pretty good to me. I actually think they’re capitulating a little bit too much by deciding not to call it open source anymore. As far as I’m concerned, if the source is available and anyone can contribute, that’s open source. I don’t particularly care whether or not it’s free for Google to incorporate it into their increasingly-enshitified products or not.

Creative Commons (an org to which FUTO says they have donated) doesn’t like their licences being used for software, presumably for finicky technical legal reasons. But if you imagine the broad spirit of their licences applying to software, all the main CC licences would be open source in my opinion. All combinations of Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike, and No Derivatives, as well as CC0 respect the important elements of open source.

Visitors with UK IP addresses*

FTFY

what implies that it wouldn’t?

If the advice is “don’t do this, let them do it”, and the advice can go both ways, it kinda doesn’t work as advice.

You realise the exact same advice could be applied in reverse, right? If the relationship’s gonna work, both people need to be interested in continuing it.

The contacts app has a field for “first name” and one for “last name”. I fill out the data that the forms give me. So yes, my parents are under their real names.

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Yup, sounds great to me. I could see a world in which it becomes a bad thing because they try to enforce it by pulling a Google and blocking users from installing extensions that aren’t through their official add-on store, but as it is, it’s hard to see any reasonable criticism.

Thanks, I hate it.

because I was sure it is. Since English isn’t my first language

To be fair, it’s an exceptionally common mistake. Even native speakers get it wrong a lot of the time. I think it’s because most people do think it’s referencing something similar to a “savings account”.

So, this actually provides an excellent example of a common misconception. It’s daylight saving time, not daylight savings. Because it’s not like a savings account for time, instead, it’s the time for saving daylight. Daylight-saving time.

So a more accurate reversal might be “night-heavy losing time”.

(Anyway, it doesn’t work.)

In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently.

So calling it “losing time” is apt.

Feathers more likely than keratinous hair.

The entire world of home IoT devices shouldn’t need an Internet connection. They should be able to work entirely based off of local network requests or other local connections (e.g. Zigbee or Thread).

I don’t know anything about this Ratchet & Clank game, but as far as old mobile tie-ins to existing console franchises go, I remember 2006’s Daxter being really good.

No offence, but accusations like that add exactly nothing to the conversation if they’re correct, and are a fucking shitty thing to do to a person if they’re not. Unless you’ve got really solid receipts, and there’s some important outcome that it would actually affect if true, just don’t fucking do it.

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

I understand the argument in favour of dangling commas, but oh gods I hate it. Aesthetically it’s just so awful.