>"NetChoice is suing Virginia to block a new law that limits kids under 16 to one hour of daily social media use unless parents approve more time, arguing the rule violates the First Amendment and introduces serious privacy risks through mandatory age-verification."

I hope NetChoice wins. These laws popping up in various states absolute put ridiculous burdens on "social media" when that responsibility should be on the parents. And those burdens will DESTROY privacy of everyone, most importantly adults. We should not have to supply PROOF POSITIVE of our identities to use websites. And that is exactly what most of these laws indirectly require.

You can hand-wave and try to invent in your mind some type of "age only" verification, third-party, trust whatever that acts as a middle-man. It is already too late. And I doubt it would actually be trust-worthy.

And have you read the bill? It doesn't even DEFINE what "social media" is. The only part of the bill I agree with is this:

"For purposes of this section, any controller or processor that operates a social media platform shall treat a user as a minor if the user's device communicates or signals that the user is or shall be treated as a minor"

In most cases, that shouldn't be needed, since children should be using locked devices that access only white-listed-sites/apps. Still, it could be useful for older children, where some sites could be appropriate if they have specific age-related/sensitive controls. Plus any voluntary tools to help parents control children's devices, I support.

What does it matter. The CIA will just step up their cloud seeding efforts to offset anything the Iranians try to do instead.

I have no knowledge of any such plan by the CIA to use any kind of weather manipulation techniques to cause droughts in Iran, but you all have to admit that it sounds like exactly like the kind of thing they would do and based on what they've done to other countries historically is not outside the realm of possibility for them. I'd be more surprised if they weren't doing this as it's a great way to destabilize an enemy country.

You may want to source numbers for your claim. I looked at unemployment rates for the U.S., the UK, and Germany in the lead up to WWI and none of them had unemployment rates near 25% or any higher than usual. The Unemployment rates prior to WWII were much higher, but as a result of the Great Depression as opposed to any kind of mass unemployment resulting from advances in technology.

As another poster already pointed out, no one can perfectly foresee the future of the economy. If they could, communism would actually have worked as the central planners could predict where the economy will move. It doesn't matter that no one individual can predict this every time. All that's required is for someone to have an idea and a need for human labor and it will create jobs that previously never existed.

Which dependencies are you even talking about? And which ones aren't compete? Be specific. With rare exception, rust binaries are statically compiled, and when there's any dynamic linking involved, it's almost always into a c library. Nobody, anywhere, ever dynamically links rust code into other rust code, so there's no way you're going to have a rust dependency that needs another rust dependency. You know why that is? Because rust doesn't have a stable ABI. So you'll have to excuse me if I call bullshit.
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And one other question, have you never heard of pip? Poetry?

You guys always have a hate boner for rust and always come up with the dumbest reasons for it that aren't even true.

One of the major problems in a world of convenience foods - fast food, Uber eats, prepackaged meals - is that all those things make you fat and sick. If you want to help the next generation maintain their health, learning to cook is a fantastic and cheap way to do it.

The genie is already out of the bottle. Nothing is stopping developers where from using AI and they will do so if it gives them an edge. Unless countries are going to start banning content (good luck with that in the U.S.) this won't matter. Nothing can force people to play games they don't want to anyway so if these human developers can't make something compelling they'll be out of the job regardless. Right now the AAA industry seems over saturated with people who shouldn't be there. They only drag down more qualified developers and waste everyone else's time and money.

There's a difference between being able to run a AAA game and having 120 FPS 4k with ray tracing and other bells and whistles. The integrated graphics on mainstream Intel and AMD CPUs can run most titles at low settings. The 30 FPS that you may get isn't considered acceptable these days, but back in the day that was something that often required a high-end setup. The integrated graphics are good enough that the low end of the GPU market no longer exists as it did two or even one decade ago. The built-in CPU graphics became good enough to eliminate those cards.

How many of those games need to be connected to anything? Unless it's an MMO or a strictly multiplayer FPS, I can do without the online component. It usually only exists to make the experience worse in my opinion. It's also often less functional than online capabilities of prior generation titles which allowed for LAN play or custom servers. Some games still use that model, but they seem like a dying breed.

I think it's more likely the detractors are being fanatical. Fluffernutter is hilariously so, he called the cloudflare developers inept because they rewrote their network stack in rust. Seriously. This is a guy who, not long before that, was telling me how he writes code four times faster than me (which I seriously doubt) and proceeds to talk about the way he writes code, which introduced potential semantic errors, then talks about how he relies on his code crashing at runtime to know when there's a bug in it. THAT is what being inept looks like.

Few people, even here, understand why rust will help you write better code before even looking at the memory safety aspect. It mostly comes down to the enum system and pattern matching ensuring you've covered all of your bases. Can it crash? Sure, but you, the developer, explicitly told it to.

Bitcoin relies entirely on SHA256 ASIC's for hashing and they typically need replacing every year or two because more efficient models come out making the old ones unprofitable, especially at halvings. Due to the RoI and first-mover advantage the profitable ones are very expensive.

If you want to heat your home with proof-of-work, use a coin that uses RandomX or some other deliberately ASIC-resistant algorithm (usually CPU mining).

You can pool mine on an old CPU and still get a few pennies for your efforts, though if you want to invest in an EPYC and have other uses for it (maybe you have work jobs to run during the day and want more heat on cold nights) it could actually be profitable.

Resistive electric heating is still a very expensive way to heat, though some people don't have better options. There's a development near where I am that was built shortly after Nixon announced Project Independence and every house (cold climate) has wall-to-wall electric baseboard heating.

You do realize you're on an American website, that primarily focuses on American topics, right?

If that bothers you so much, you can always go back to reddit.com/r/russia to speak with your comrades. Don't forget to stop by r/americabad on the way.

Right now, it is a stupid check box I have to keep clicking. Just started maybe a week ago. And it is nearly every time I click on anything Slashdot, if I have a gap of time inbetween. Sometimes even a few minutes. It is very annoying.

>"So you disable all the tracking and that's cool and all but a lot of businesses use that tracking to decide whether or not you're committing fraud or not. So you use Firefox and they can't track you but then they won't let you make purchases on their website..."

This is actually insightful. I have noticed that with UBO and lots of tracking disabled (thank you Firefox), many sites, INCLUDING SLASHDOT, are now constantly challenging me to prove I am not a "bot" through their use of Cloudflare. So far it is just annoying. But that could evolve pretty quickly into downright disaster. And the more we outsource control of our sites to Cloudflare, the more dangerous it becomes. Soon, Google will be able to define the web in whatever freaking way they want, ways that will certainly not benefit user privacy or freedom. And Cloudflare will be able to completely control who is allowed to even browse the web, and how, and using which tools, and from where. Throw in AI nonsense to remove users from all direct sources of information, power more bots, and confuse everything with fake crap, and the outlook for "the web" is looking more dreary every year.

>"No. FF is hopelessly enshittified."

Couldn't disagree with you more. If you want that type of browser, look no further than Edge/Chrome. Rigid config, lack of user control, often mysterious goings-on, etc. That is on top of Google trying to completely take over what is web standards, mostly in favor of their own products and services (and drag all the other browsers with it, since they are now all Chromium, except Firefox and those based on it).

>"The only way to fix it is to strip out all the telemetry/AI/adware"

What little telemetry/AI/adware, if you can call it that, is 100% under user control. Mozilla is completely open about what they do and where, and you can turn all of it off. Nothing is hidden. And it actually is off when you turn it off. And it stays off.

>"and preinstall good adblock."

Mozilla isn't going to put that directly into Firefox. It would be suicide. Yes, we all immediately install a VERY good adblock, which is UBO. And it is the real deal, unlike anything you can put in Chrome or Edge. But that is our doing it. If that were preinstalled, it would make Firefox an enemy of some very powerful corporations. Mozilla has enough issues without adding that.