It is interesting how common victim blaming is against single people. I think it may be some form of survivorship guilt, where when married/dating people hear others having a hard time finding a partner, they need to rationalize it because they feel uncomfortable they might end up in the same boat. The "single because they gave up looking" is such a salve since either the single person is lazy (not looking) or impatient (still looking). Neither eventuality is actually thought through, but it makes the blamer feel more righteous as if the single person deserved it.

This isn't about protecting kids, it's about identifying adults.

They're onboard for this because the real goal for kosa/etc is digital id. It was never about protecting kids, it was about data collection and control.

I doubt they care about the content (at an executive level). The content is just the lure to get people onto a platform that they can take a passive 30% fee of every transaction -- that's the real money.

The rare AI enthusiast who prefers windows and can tolerate slow inference performance?

Proton/wine still has some blind spots. If TurboTax is using some old activex controls, that may be the problem. Especially the older embedded internet explorer is hard to get running.

I have been using it for years successfully. Note the state taxes cost money, but not much. Best of all, they are not in the tax lobby so your money doesn't work against you.

Canada senate just passed AV requirements, too. Nowhere is safe from privacy erosion.

An important thing to note is all of the methods tie you to a real identity. Even account age given over the requisite period, it would be enough time for Apple to do data collection for most people (which may be why some old accounts are not considered eligible) This is a hill I will die on - I will not give the OS my identity. I will sooner stop using cell phones entirely, or switch to a pager+Linux laptop. Not even my carrier has it anymore. After I caught T-Mobile selling my PII again after I opted out, I switched to an MVNO with a pseudonym. Can't trust any of these corpos with your PII.

The best use case for it, too. US government restoring freedom to states who took it away.

Mumble does now support individual volume adjustment... a feature that a few other conference calling programs still don't, somehow.

Yep, too many developers are just unwilling to do code signing, whether due to cost, privacy, or censorship concerns.

Dangerous enough to fine someone millions, but not enough to fix, I guess.

Poor security does lead to increased car theft, as we saw with the surge in Kia models being stolen.

This. The tax is anticompetitive, UK should have put an end to it. It doesn't cost anywhere near 30% to host an apk and run it through automated filters. App stores should not run on a percentage model but a flat usage model (ex: pay for apk bandwidth like on AWS). Customers are stuck paying the bloated hidden tax.