Almost everything is a webpage these days. Or a youtube video

They are enabled - the kids have found bypasses. Turning on the hotspot and then using their school device for instance

But not my kids phone that they turned the hotspot on before then. even if I take it their school device can be got from the backpack

It only takes one kid to figure out the bypass and it spreads all the kids. Some of those kids are talking to kids going to other schools.

every week my kids hear about a new game the school isn’t blocking while they are in class. Sometimes the teachers catch them, but kids are good at hiding what they are doing - and switching to what they should do when the teacher comes near.

I can’t - teachers give them homework that must be done on the device all the time.

Every week my kid hears about another game (not boobs) that the school didn’t block and thus they can play when the teacher isn’t looking. There are also a lot of non educational youtube videos they can watch, but since some of their real educational videos are on youtube they don’t block most. (Again youtube will block boobs - but that is not all I’m worried about)

They are only easy to setup if you don’t care about getting them right. Either you block a lot of useful content (only approved, audited things allowed), or you block only things that are known evil (that is you audited it). Either way the vast majority of the internet is not audited and we have no idea which of that is good vs evil. (nevermind trying to get a consistent definition of good/evil). The name “onlyfans” makes me think of sports fans and thus something I’d allow kids to access - of course I know better, I’ll be there is someone out there who would be setting up the firewall who doesn’t know it is in fact adult content.

Age verification needs to be done by someone (probably a government agency, though it need not be) who has verified age. That someone needs to be legally liable (and able to enforce) the tracking rules for anyone who uses their system to verify age. You want to verify someone’s age with me, first you need to prove you are following our privacy rules - including our regular random audits.

It needs a better cryptologist than me to get the details of the above system right.

Of course if even if you have the above I’m not sure how you will get anyone to use it. Perhaps we can have schools put a hard block on any system that doesn’t follow the above system, but the vast majority of the web isn’t going to opt-in. Note in particular this includes a lot of the useful sites I as a parent want my kids to access so it won’t help me as a parent.

As a voters you don’t get much a choice. In any voting system there is a case where all your choices are for something you are a hard no on.

No we can’t. We try, but kids are not 100% of the time in our sight. They are sitting in their chair “doing homework”, but when they see us coming they switch apps - who knows what they are doing. They are getting up at 3am when we are a sleep, again doing who knows what. Even if we put controls on, anytime there is a way to bypass the control (often a website that looks good enough to fool the automated approval system school has set up) that will spread to the entire school and all kids get access to that for a week in school before it is shutdown.

If you want age verification to work, you need a strong legal effort (international!) so that anyone who makes something online that gets kids (intentionally or not) faces a strong enough legal issue (read years in prison) that it is really stops this. Part of that is enough money for investigation so that it is a given you will be caught. I don’t think you can do this, and so the whole effort is pointless.

I want perminate standard time. Mostly because any US state can do that now, but year round dst requires us congress to change the law. I want to be done with the nonescence now and what the clocks read doesn’t matter much so long as they are consistent.

Your odds of finding the winning ticket on the sidewalk about about the same as buying it. So I walk around once in a while looking for winning tickets. I haven’t found one yet, but who knows. Bonus - I get some much needed exercise in the process.

I know people who have built bigger buildings by themselves. They work construction for a day job so they have a lot of experience and tools. Still it absolutely is possible.

That said, there will be times that help makes things easier. So if you can get some - even for a few hours - plan a head so help is there for the hard parts. (in my experience “Free” help works for beer: buy the good stuff, but not enough to get them drunk).

Lacking help, doing this yourself is about the tools. Cranes can be rigged up - ropes and pulleys. Your local rental center will often have tools you really need. Don’t work on windy days, those panels can catch enough wind to turn into a hang glider (when they come down the panel is destroyed and you have broken bones)

What matters is the whole community. Statistically it happens to someone in your community. Society wasted a lot of fuel (read global warming) just on low tire pressure.

Surveillance is a problem. So is global warming.

They can, but both of those are often encrypted such that it is at least hard. TPMS isn’t encrypted so it is easy to figure out what cars are going by.

You can get close enough just clipping some weights of the same weight as the sensor to the valve stem. A static balance isn’t hard to do - not nearly as good as the proper dynamic balance the tire shop will do, but often good enough.

If you didn’t check your tire pressure in the last 20 minutes how do you know you didn’t just drive over a nail and get a slow leak? TPMS checks every few seconds so you know when there is a small problem. Anyone will notice a fully flat tire, but a lot of people used to drive on low tire pressure for months without knowing. Once someone knew their tire had a problem they would check daily (until they got it fixed), but many people never knew in the first place, and even though who did know often took a week before they found out - they of course have no way to know since nobody checked their tire pressure daily much less every 20 minutes.

Depends on the attacker. The GPS is better if you have access to the car, but getting that is hard. Any idiot with a radio can read the TPMS sensors of every car going by - there is nothing that even slows them down.

I use grocy for chore /task management. Then home assistant to put it on a dashboard that looks nice. I’m not totally happy but it is the best I’ve found.

It is the ecconomy, stupid. I realize junior engineers have never before had a recession affect them so this seems new and eifferent to them. However as a senior I’ve seen several and every single time there are articles about how this time is difierent and the jobs are never coming back. I also know it sucks to be someone who is affected, but in a few years this will be a memory.

not that ai changes nothing, but thingsialways change. The world recovers and moves on.