indexing != making and retaining a copy of, and then using for commercial purposes.

OPNSense lets you define an alias of type=BGP ASN. Then you just use the alias as the target in a block rule.

The next step will be to force ISPs to block ipsec and other VPN protocols as well as connections to well know VPN endpoints.

It's 95% secure as long as you OR a person at the phone company doesn't fall for social engineering. Unfortunately SIM cloning is a thing and has been used as an attack vector to steal 2FA sent via SMS. TOTP is much more secure as the credential is only sent once when establishing the symmetric key.

All that means is that you are punished for NOT using a rewards card. The merchant has already baked the cost of doing business with the CC reward companies into their price, so if you pay with a simple debit or a card that offers no rewards, you are paying the higher price to no benefit. I pay off my CC bill every month anyway. I might as well get 1% or whatever pittance back as an Amazon gift card or whatever every few months. It is better than paying the same price and getting nothing.

I really wish they had something more granular than "kid" vs "normal" account. I'd like to be able to whitelist a curated set of channels for my kids. Setting an account to a kid's account allows in all kinds of AI trash and excludes a lot of great educational content.

Banning social media won't get kids outside. I've talked to parents of my son's peers. They don't let their kids out of the house unsupervised. I'm the weirdo in the sense that I think a 10 year old can walk a mile to a friend's house or go play street hockey or whatever without a parent hovering over their shoulder. If you take away social media, all those kids will be watching TV or their parents will send them to aftercare or judo lessons or whatever. You'll just be removing ALL social interaction for kids whose parents don't want to pay by the hour to keep them entertained.

My experience is the US, mind, not AU, so things are probably somewhat different there. But with that caveat in mind: At least on school days, the ONLY social interaction my 10 year old son gets with his peers is online through "social media". I've sent him outside to "bike around the neighborhood and find someone to play with" and he reported that there wasn't anyone. I walked around with him and sure enough, the streets were deserted @ 3:00 on a weekday afternoon. All the kids are kept inside or at some structured after school activity. If I want him to go to a friend's house that is not in walking distance my wife or I have to take time off to drive him there and pick him up. In my day you could just hop on your friend's bus and get off at his stop with him, but they don't allow that anymore (even with a not from the parents: I checked with the school).

Now that it is summer, everyone is in "camp", so again, no playmates if you don't also send your kid to "camp". I guess no one fucks around in each other's yard, plays pickup baseball, or goes fishing anymore. I've tried to raise my kids to have active independent childhoods, but without the network effect of other parents giving their kids the same freedoms, it just ain't happening.

So his friend group mostly coordinates through discord on their iPads to play minecraft and other online activities together as their main form of play. I understand that a lot of these social media platforms are not healthy for kids, but for many it is their ONLY outlet. To the extent social media gets regulated, it should be to curb predatory practices by the platform. That plus good parenting and supervision should be sufficient. But an outright ban is overkill.

One guy doing it is not effective, but 1000? If a law or policy is so unpopular it causes the populace to become ungovernable, that law or policy will change. The couple thousand $ to replace some destroyed cameras amortized over a county is a bargain to remove a channel for state surveillance.

Corporations aren't people, and have no lives and thus no inherent rights. Any granted rights they do get to the detriment of people should only be the bare minimum necessary needed to create some larger benefit to society as a whole. Giving a legal fiction the right to control a piece of media that has cultural import, however small, for 150 years is over indexing on the corp side and against the people.

Demand is inelastic and supply is limited. Bringing new supply online takes years to decades. It's stupid to permit new bulk users knowing the inevitable result.

In my experience "update and shutdown" downloads the updates, runs what doesn't require a reboot, stages the remainder, and shuts down. When you restart you have to wait however long it takes to complete the install.

You can do largely the same thing running Opus in a loop. It just burns a few more tokens.

AI is opex, not capex though. You get to pay that cost every year. You are renting time on a machine not buying it. A well taken care of lathe lasts 70+ years, so the $50k you spend on it now pays dividends for as long as you keep it, and you can sell it used when you upgrade. The money on AI tooling is just gone. No machine shop would rent that lathe at $25k/yr

You want a nice screen so you can use your phone's nav app instead of the god awful one that comes bundled in the car.