From the story it appears that some bloke sent a threatening email to the girlfriend of one Kashyap Patel
FTFY

Chinese law doesn't require a warrant for such access and it may be done in secrecy (i.e. without informing the user) if necessary to perform duties. The problem with Apple in China isn't that they aren't following the law, it's that they are and the law is openly fascist.

Check his posting history and it's very clear that he is not.

If he is not a trollbot, he is so frothy as to be indistinguishable from one. Every comment is the same.

Mobile Firefox has become nearly unusable. It crashes on me at least once per day now. The memory leaks are worse than ever.

Dice isn't relevant here, it's B1zX

You'll probably save $50 per year or more in electricity costs by switching to a Pi.

They are NOT primarily focused on Firefox and have so much play money they squander it on whatever projects amuse them as is their legal right.

Their Google contract alone brings in about half a billion dollars. They're a highly "profitable" non-profit.

Moltbook is going to institute a "Prove you're a Robot" requirement.

Yes and no...

Yeah, specific employees.

Anyway, this is a good point, people can only stare at a screen for so long, unless they're playing video games. Obviously they need to gamify trading. I mean, more than they already have

That is exactly the space I am always trying to inhabit. Sometimes I even get there.

Taxing bad behavior is just another variation of the evil bit, or vice versa I suppose.

There are two main problems with Democrats. First problem, they are not actually left enough. They are solidly in the pockets of big business, they always vote to increase funding to the MIC, etc etc. They are mostly just as addicted to money as Republicans. (On average it costs more to bribe them, which is mildly interesting although it doesn't change anything for us - it's been studied and it costs more in "donations" to get them to vote like shitheels, but they still do it.) Second problem, which is related to that problem: they think they can court the right wing. Well, they fucking can not. They shift right to try to get votes and it doesn't work. They keep going conservative and losing, and they do it with such gusto that it's difficult to believe it's not on purpose.

Harris failed to condemn genocide for both of these reasons, and that is a huge reason why younger voters stayed home. I don't disagree with anything you said, but I still believe that's a huge factor here.

Correct, I am not a simp for the world's longest running child rape conspiracy.

I don't need to have one. You actually do get to claim to be one if you're not actually living the faith, and you know who decided that? The church. In between raping children and relocating child molesters to other locations so they can rape more children, the priests and bishops and popes took some time out to say it's OK as long as you keep trying to come in and give them money and children.

I'm going to start in reverse.

Yes, I agree to this, which is why the education aspect is so important. We give kids a 1/2 assed, destitute, very limited, drug education, where we tell them (paraphrased): "Never do drugs, drugs are bad.". The real education they should have, and my wife and I give our kids (paraphrased): "Drugs can be fun, interesting, expand your mind, and create a different operating dynamic. If you want to try a drug, learn about it, research it, secure a safe supply, test it, and set up a situation where you're safe, and it's controlled.". Why did so many kids in high school try mushrooms, or cannabis? They tried it because the parent said "No!", and "This will destroy your life", but then noticed that wasn't true.

Our schools use to hold police led education nights, where officers would "educate" youth and parents on the dangers of drugs, but it was never correct, or reasonable information. They still teach that cannabis is a gateway drug, gateway to what? Cannabis does not lead to heroin use, what leads to harder drugs, are the lies, and kids realizing they were lied to, if cannabis is safe, heroin is safe, and that's the real issue.

I did, and I offered all my advice, documentation, and even Moodle courses to the school and board for FREE. I offered to come in as a security expert and talk to the kids, and was denied. My home network costs north of 5k, and I understand that some family just can't spend that much, and shouldn't. If you could buy any one device, a good firewall / router. The Dream Machine Pro, as an example, is a great solution, and if you bought just one device to lock your network down, that's what I'd buy (again), I own two of them.

Apart from a good firewall and router, you need to educate kids on how to set up their environments, and this is where the schools are failing badly. Kids should know how disgusting insecure most default set ups are, and simple, easy, and straightfoward solutions on how to cover 90% of the issues. Simple things like what a VPN is actually good for, or, what exentions you should be installing in your browser. What settings in your OS you should be turning off, and just basic instruction. Don't teach them about Group Policy, if you want the other 10%, sure, but you don't need it, 90% is good enough for 99% of circumstances.

This is a fun point to take on. I have a condition called Chronic Neuropathic Pain Disorder ,which cause chronic pain. The pain ranges from annoying to a hard kick in the nuts. Over the last 5-years I've been on every class of pain killer / neuropathic pain medication, which is over 50. I've had prescription grade fentanyl, at a grade and strength higher then you'll get on the street. Somewhere near me, I'm also legally blind so I really can't see the bottles, are bottles of hydromorphone, toradol, T4, T3, morphine, and something else. I also have several kg's of cannabis home grown, and more edibles, oils, and vapes then you've probably seen at a house. I would have a pretty good excuse for being an addict, but, I have to balance my treatments with the understanding that addiction is possible.

This is why I also say that addiction is a choice, I have to choose to be productive, and not high, which is not a simple choice. I've taken one day off in 5-years for pain, and I didn't really take it off, I blacked out and my wife found me seizing on the floor, and was rushed to the hospital. To fairly quote you:

That's the entire point I'm making, something being addictive is not the problem, have you had a Twix? Oreo's? Pringles? Lots of things are addictive, but you have to make the choice to abuse it.

If they're trying to express an opinion or point, without being a loud obnoxious lunatic, that's one thing. If they want to go off on rants and unfounded nonsense just to bug and disturb people, that's a different point. Freedom of expression means they can express themselves, short of hate speech, which I don't think it's defined clearly enough, but, it's a balancing act.

if they show up at the town hall, and are just there to cause problems, they should be sent away, and parents should get involved, unless they're causing a problem for the right reasons.