Correction, because nobody else wanted to maintain it.

And this has started to become an anti-AI culture war thing, with many of the bugs attributed angrily to AI being bugs that have existed in the code for years.

What’s the alternative? The basically unusable Mojeek? Rawdogging Bing? SearXNG?

At the very least, I’d be far more approving if they didn’t make me pay for a separate 300 AI searches I’d never use. If it was just “600 searches, of any type” or even just “300 searches, of any type” that would be far more acceptable.

I just installed Bitwarden because 979 2FA started refusing to show my codes unless I set up a password and fingerprint (and fails when I try anyway). Now to find something else I guess.

I can second this. It seems to me pretty clearly that these policies are being passed based on genuine concern for the children. They’re poorly designed but they come from a good place.

They could’ve just bloody made social media safe for everyone, instead of making us jump through all these hoops.

Of course with porn it’s a bit more complicated, being exposed to it at too young of an age has proven negative effects.

I’m trying to find a rebuttal to that but I got nothing, and it finally makes sense to me why the government isn’t banning VPN’s.

Currently most major VPN’s respond to legal requests from the government. If the government chooses to ban VPN’s, then people will change to VPN’s that won’t respond to legal requests. That would leave the government with less power to police the internet, not more.

Neither is enforceable.

They are enforceable. In the first case they can ban transactions to the VPN and ban the website from all ISP’s. In the second case they can just ban transactions to Mullvad and should Proton not comply with the ban to Proton too.

It’s not about banning people from using the VPN, it’s about scaring away the VPN providers.

You can easily make VPN’s effectively illegal. You could make them require age verification for example, or you could ban commercial VPN’s and only allow self-hosted ones. They could also do what Utah did and make it so that you effectively can’t access any websites with a VPN, because the site would be liable for any VPN users accessing the site.

The idea that the government can’t ban VPN’s is giving us a false sense of security. They can at the very least completely undermine them.

“Do you guys not have phones?”

The CEO did not praise the Trump administration. He said the Trump administration was doing the bare minimum where the Democrats were not, showing up to the discussion.

It’s not praising the Republicans to say, accurately, what the Republicans and Democrats were doing.

OS-level is the only privacy respecting way (except maybe browser-level). The alternative is some cloud service who’s code you can’t audit.

I could’ve sworn I heard about the Netherlands discovering a backdoor in them. But nevermind credible, I can’t find any source at all to support that.

Theophobia(?) is not helpful. Shaming people for their religious beliefs benefits nobody. Biblical fundamentalism is a problem, sure, but science does not have an explanation yet for many things like the initial formation of single-celled life and the birth of the universe (big bang aside). We are in no position to judge someone for how they choose to fill those gaps.

Because it takes time for an air conditioner to cool down the place, and it wastes energy to keep it running for 8 hours while you’re at work.

Well, then do that.

Those tools cost money.

There is currently no alternative to the left of the Democrats that has a credible path to power. It is not an “immediate harm” to undermine an alternative which is not even considered a genuine threat by the establishment.

Build those alternatives, sure, but they are not going to overturn the current system overnight.

We need to live in the reality that we’re getting evil either way and try to minimize harm.

Nobody knows what the long term holds, and it’s in no universe worth gambling on accelerationism when there’s real immediate harm we can prevent by voting for the Democrats. At the very least, measles won’t come back.

Which one of you is on bad guy/dragon duty?