Honest question, how difficult would it be for age verification gateways to block VPN originated traffic? At least for the most popular ones from mainstream providers?

Easy fix, the govt prints money, buys out vacant apartments with a manageable loss to the owners and gives them away for free to familes with 2+ children :)

of Hunter Biden pardon fiasco and he had start by proving that nobody in America can stoop lower than him. Good job Donald!.

"The problem with decentralized social media platforms thus far is that their user base is minuscule " No the problem is that somebody has to pay for hosting. As simple as that. The like Mastodon are only sustainable right now because it's userbase is miniscule. But the effect of "who's gonna pay" question is that you have to go through complicated hosting selection procedure and that's what scares most people off. In Facebook you pay with your data and attention. I don't see sustainable idea how to achieve that in "decentralized" manner.

Voice control might however be only a gimmick as it's probably much more useful in ideographic languages countries.

That without looking at any international body. It will be interesting to observe how it spreads outside China. It could be a model other non-west standardization efforts.

Is there any online tool that does a good job translating legalese to plain english? Seems like a dream job for properly trained LLM. Support to other languages would be a plus.

Why isn't it treated as a case of more generic reputation destruction attempt by spreading forged evidence? How is that different from distributing a deep fake video of a victim doing drugs or getting caught at shop-lifiting? What make deep fake porn special here?

The problem is with CEP down from 5m to say 30m $100k GLMRS becomes a glorified Tornado ($5k) rocket. And its payload is not enough to engage a target w/o massive rocket spend. All the while I don't hear the same reports about successful EW against Russian UMPK 500kg bombs with KOMET Glonass modules. If there's any game changer at current stage of the war, it's the Russians that have it.

I'm afraid this case if not reversed will have a ripple effect over the quality of higher education in the US. Other contract professors will read those signals and understand the nature of their jobs is no longer about verifiable knowledge transfer but much more nuanced "care" category for troubled young adults. Some (including those that have best results) might reconsider their future career paths.

How is that different from the bread and butter of the "influencer" business model? 1. gain followers 2. start charging companies for serving your audience covert adverts. ... 3. profit If the courts were consistent all the stars of instagram / tick tock could be now signing up to "my live in jail" reality show. What makes financial domain so different from other cases of sucker harding?

Innertial nav have been using successfully as a positioning system for ballistic rockets but it needs a well military grade gyroscopes and accelerometers that cost tens of thousands for. I'd rather think that the proper reaction for GPS signal lost for no reason is to call Calvary.

On the one hand the end users (bug suppliers) get non-repudiable and prooven leger of their suppliers transactions on the other every party is basically exposing their business business flat to the competitors. Everybody will see what everybody else is doing on the real time. Suppliers can eliminate middle man by learning their suppliers. Vendors can peek competitors plans and business models. Unless this is somehow addressed in a way that doesn't break the whole blockchain idea joining such a network would be a business suicide.

2nd issue I've always had with such a private small blockchains is how will the >50% hack be prevented. And what are rewards that keep the parties invest more and more processing power to prevent that in the long run?