“Oh no what if someone believes my hype about building a Torment Nexus and, instead of throwing more money on my money fire, tries setting me on fire instead.”

Durability I imagine. My 10+ year old MP3 players still work fine. My phones from 5 years ago don’t.

Childers is maybe the best of this generation.

You know what could solve ticket scalping? Ban ticket resales. That’s always been an option. Venues don’t do this because their only concern is selling out their seats.

Either way it’s a problem.

If politicians are writing tech bills to deliberately undermine freedom: fire them.

If they’re writing bad tech policy because they’re not consulting the “good guys” first, such as the FSF, EFF, or OSI: also fire them.

I’d be interested to know what anti-malware tools one can use on an Android other than Play Protect.

This has been true since $500 was worth $1000, iirc

He appears to be a New Jersey Rep, and the Democratic cosponsor of this bill.

Too me one of the big issues is being able to trust a government or business to not trace a person’s identity back through the token. There are technical ways to prevent that as far as I’m aware, but there’s such a strong incentive against such protections that it’s really hard to trust unless you’re technologically skilled enough to verify the process yourself.

Primary Josh Gottheimer. Write in anyone else against him. Vote against him or withhold voting at all in the general.

Do not signal that this is tolerated.

They’re doing both.

Exactly. I will pay for things that I want. If you do not sell them to me I will get them some other way or satisfy myself with other things.

Not to be rude, but this website looks like AI, and I don’t think these authors are real.

See you’re just thinking of pro-social applications for tech. Nothing wrong with that. One day the world will be better and we’ll need creativity and positivity rather than nihilism. In the meantime, some cynicism is warranted.

Key point: “Ultimately, the fundamental problem with age-gating is that it fails to address any of the root problems with our current online landscape – that is, the extractive business models and pernicious design features of mainstream tech companies. We all exist in a highly commercialised information ecosystem, rife with algorithmically amplified misinformation, scams, harmful content and AI slop. Children are particularly vulnerable to these issues but the reality is that it impacts everyone, even if you’re blissfully absent from Facebook or Instagram.”

He was a manipulative mass murderer, and his scheme couldn’t last, but I respect a hot take.

What does “ED at 23” even mean in this context? He can only bust 10 times a day now?

I don’t mind paying for things, but it was already ridiculous. This is too much even for me.

This is neat but also it’s actually in Syria.

T would be considered performance enhancing, but if they haven’t taken any then probably yes?