Hell, there are places in the states that won't get 5G for decades. Hell, the telecoms haven't finished the 4G rollout, yet.

George Orwell is spinning in his grave

Not until it actually saves anyone any money. to get all that I want to see or watch, I have to sign up for 3 or 4 services. So where are the savings, though I do like to watch when I want to watch rather than at the broadcast schedule.

China isn't facebook's trouble. Mark Zuckerburg and Cheryl Sandberg are. China has a command economy and there is no privacy or expectation of it, there.

I mean, really. What happens when a jet on approach sucks a drone down one of it's engines and crashes?

The fox. Good luck with that.

A couple of well placed access points on the farm and this whole thing could be done with wifi. No need for big monthly bills from the telco for connecting up a couple of hundred head of cattle. Hell, RFID will tell you which cow just came through the door. Dairy cows don't travel far. they need to return to the milker each morning and evening. That means they are within walking distance of the barn so that drastically reduces the area that you need to cover down to less than 100 acres, most likely 20 or 30 will do. Moreover, the cattle are likely to be in open field, so that make communication even easier. This is just overkill for the need and over hyping 5G

My servers have been negotiating TLS connections for years. What's all this about?

I uninstalled opera last night and switched back to Firefox. I don't like forced updates, but I value my privacy more than I object to forced updates.

That would be because Mitch isn't working for the common good, he's working for the corporate good.

I installed a snap version of VSCode months ago on one or two of my Ubuntu boxes. yawn

3263 more pieces of space junk in orbit

Ethics, anyone? The liberal arts types are the intuitives and the perceivers. They are a balance and the conscience of our societies. They put the big picture together. They are the ones that see the dangers of unrestrained technology and the intrusions into our lives. They are the ones that read Asimov and hold the 3 laws of robotics to be sacred and they should extend to artificial intelligence. The anthropologists, sociologists, historians, etc. are necessary. Especially historians. "He who fails to learn the lessons of history is doomed to repeat them."

I run my own local recursorsive nameservers even on my portable devices. totally not interested in using anyone's resolvers but my own. I hope they publish instructions on how to bypass the behavior.

There isn't any. You have no expectation of privacy on public services