I see you didn't game in the early days of the internet. I use to play Doom on a 14.4 modem with this product called Kali, before there were game "servers'. Back in the days of Quake there was this product called Qspy or Quake spy that became Game Spy that was used for getting a list of servers to play on. We abused the company T-1 back then. Yes I ran a Quake server on the companies Sun Sparc server, Thunderwalker was the quake mod I loved. Later it was Tribes, but I wasn't the only Sysadmin doing that back then 90% of the servers were player hosted. You could mod the game, make your own maps. IMHO it was the golden era of PC gaming. I would run a server today if the code was there to host games I like to play, but that is not what the industry has become.

Playing with friends was not hard because you just ran your own server, back when you could do such things.

No, I would prefer privacy be the way. But it seems that we have decided that isn't going to happen so if that is the case then lets start watching the watchers.

If we are going to surveil then open the data to EVERYONE not just the special people with badges. Put the cameras up and give the public access to the video and data. Don't do it in secret, do it in full view. And then lets put those cameras at the entrances to our government offices, police departments and military bases as those need to be kept safe and secure first.

https://github.com/wilbowes/Ec...

If the product is free then you are the product

Just get your AI from China who isn't going to slow down. Get yourself some graphics cards and run your own abliterated LLM on your own hardware. The genie is already out of the bottle, most of those basement bitcoin factories are now cranking out the AI and all the US AI slowdown you want matters not if China keeps cranking out the open source LLMs

Maybe for you, but some of us create accounts like we make turds, new ones every day and most stink...

The problem isn't with what the law says it is trying to do, the problem is there is no way to tell who the kids are, so we have to force everyone to ID. There is no site on the internet that I need to use bad enough to provide an ID. None. Would rather not use the site than provide my ID. Full Stop.

You can choose if it is built in the light or in the dark of a basement. It is getting built. The genie is out of the bottle.

As long as accounts are free to create and have no ties to your real identity. VPN, Ip changes etc prevent true ability to ban anyone. I may or may not of been perma banned more than once.

Just Google has to open their Android up to competitors? Why not Apple too? You know the company with the famous walled garden around their I-everything.

T&C statement that the product is not available where prohibited. Put the enforcement on the law creators. Or just say not available in Australia. Let them try to figure out how to censor the internet and then deal with their voters.

Don't use your own bare metal system. VM it. Same is true with phone, don't take your phone with you when you are going to crime. Never break more than 1 law at a time.

china based linux distro. Not sure it can be trusted, not smart enough to review the source