Rationality may be fundamental to good governance but not fundamental to democracy. The foundation of democracy is the knowledge that power corrupts people. Democracy is the way to put the elites and/or dictators in check.

Maybe you can defend that the "Sydney Sweeney" look is co-owned by you and the "real" Sydney Sweeney?

See Cab_over for real trucks design that somewhat resonate with your idea. Outside America, a lot of trucks are designed such that the driver sits before the engine.

Satire stuff shall look clear to everyone's eyes that the face is keyed on the video. Satire stuff shall not mislead audience into thinking what they show have really happened.

Social platforms are hard to stay decentralized. There is a strong financial and economic advantage in centralization.

What we need is pull down the curtain that hide those private judges. A company can't make decisions by itself. It is the people who own the company or employed / contracted by the company who make decisions. Content take down and account ban judgements shall not be allowed done anonymously. A country can't get judicial justice with all the police and judges be anonymous from their people. Same for online platforms.

As long as the society doesn't find a way to penalize the fast-fashion business model, the trend of product enshification will go on and infect every non-luxury goods.

We don't let children use calculators until certain age, after they have learnt all the basic math.

AI chatbots should be regarded similarly, with a higher restriction until a lot later than calculators.

The computer only knows the user types a bunch of characters with a particular keyboard layout. The computer doesn't know which exact language a character belongs to. There is no automatic and reliable way to assign the language metadata. Multiple languages can be mixed together in the same document or database record entry.

Since multiple languages can mix together, Unicode must focus on characters and embed whatever language metadata into some form of characters. Side channel is not going to work.

The only valid reason of a computer to support case insensitive file system is for "Windows compatibility". Therefore, the actual correct solution is to do what Windows do, call it ms-case-fold() or whatever. How it is done in natural language shouldn't even matter. Let Microsoft take care of that.

We need a middle ground between "trusting" each and every self-signed certs and "trusting" a custom CA to authenticate websites arbitrarily.

Fact: we get a lot of intranet web UIs that shouldn't (need to) request public cert from authorities outside the intranet.

Not sure how to best achieve that though.

I looked up DANE. It moves the goal post to DNS, and employs DNSSEC.

There is a subtle but significant difference between trusting a domain name provider pointing me a correct IP, versus trusting a domain name provider to also safeguard if the content transmitted is not intercepted. The root DNS system is a lot more centralized. Over-centralization can lead to abuses too.

Both Chrome and Firefox has gone the route of DNS-over-HTTPS for DNS security.

Or a platform can require every image / video uploads to declare "is it drawn by AI" before submit. If the user aren't sure it isn't as one is copying from somewhere else, the user will then need to declare the source(s) of content.

In other words, the choices are "Yes', "No" and "I don't know. It is from ____"

Your standard outlet and power plug for AC is still a lot bigger, with a lot more reliable contact surface.

Maybe I used the term "early years" wrong then. I am not talking about those "xxx speed" but the time when one only had to check between USB 2 and USB 3.

The USB version number was okay in early years. It is the rebranding old versions into confusing new version names that screw up themselves.

Come on, who the hell daydream this can drive sales?