Reddit is a microcosm. You might as well ban the Internet. Or come up with a real plan that allows nuance, like partial access. We're at the point where AI and LLMs aren't great but they can do basic classifying at a level that should be sufficient to just gate the material that should be gated.

Well this is pretty sad. Not because the teens get past it, but because whatever AI trained on the data decides that adults are generally unhappy.

HTML tags can have comma or space separated values.
<meta name="rating" content="adult">

The above is a tag that Google SafeSearch already respects. But more granular would be easy by just adding additional like 18up or 13up for ages, tags for violence, MPAA ratings, etc. There's no reason to have a single standard when you can just tag individual aspects and the user agent can look at it in aggregate to decide whether it complies.

They might just want adults to speak more freely because it's good for revenue - which won't happen if they don't feel they have legally protected anonymity. That doesn't mean they are necessarily after just increasing their user count of minors. I'm not entirely on their side but I think it's worth letting them speak and supporting the good in what they say.

Age verification should be handled with an anonymized digital token. One party verifies the age, the other uses the token to create the account. Both can't be owned by the same company. Neither is government. Unless that can be solved cryptographically, because a nationalized method would be simpler and more cost effective if there was already some sort of national digital ID. Regardless, I think age verification can be done relatively anonymously.

The smartwatch would be obsolete in 90 years when he gets out of prison.

It's much easier than that. If X gets wind of this effort before the trademark is invalidated (it's published news, so...), they just have to start using the brand name at least somewhere just once in a while. That's it. It's protected. It's not a patent. Trademarks are use it or lose it and using it is an absolute defense.

Yeah, that's not what happens on the platform. But it does still look like that today. Conservatives see liberal posts more often and vice versa. They are engagement baiting you for ad dollars. They still do. It's very profitable.

Perverse incentives. The FCC more or less tries to mandate locked bootloaders because of the wireless transmit capabilities. The firmware could be locked on just the radio chip itself, but companies can stretch the truth a bit. And then Qualcomm has closed source drivers so if you stray too far from the original OS the driver just won't run. The vendors effectively work together to make the lockdown a secondary requirement for their mutual financial benefit.

I don't know the exact technical details so I may be mangling things a bit.

An app that is free and has no ads or in-app purchases has one of two incentives: completely harmless fun OR the financial incentive is hidden and it is a scam. These are the hardest two to differentiate unless you personally know the developer. A dangerous app probably doesn't need in-app purchases or advertising. But it can also look like a game.

Sure, and the Big Mac diet doesn't cause heart attacks. I get that correlation isn't causation here, but you might be OK with saying that "certain environmental conditions" caused the cancer. But if those don't cause cancer except in conjunction with the mutation it's at least equally valid to say that the mutation "caused" the cancer. Or you can say that nothing causes cancer, and cancer is a natural process that can only be prevented by certain genetic advantages / environmental conditions.

Most of the time, it's any kind of recurring (epithelial) damage that causes a higher rate of cell replacement (which is often environmental). Just replicating the cells that many times is enough to cause mutations. It's the fact that the body doesn't eliminate the mutations that makes it cancer.

Except they've all gotten into OAuth, so you could have an account that is just a single sign on identity with no post, view or comment history. Is that a social media account? If you hand it over it will be declared obviously fake.

I think you disproved a negative just now. I didn't think anyone that wasn't MAGA would spell it boarder. I get it that autocorrect is a thing but I haven't seen it until now.

The US is responsible for most of the regimes south of Mexico existing in the first place. US history is full of meddling in other countries' politics to our financial advantage. Including banana republics earlier on, but later the CIA was more or less founded to overthrow governments. It's not the stated purpose, but it's what happens all the same. Supposedly we are for democracy, but if it hurts a fruit company, we're getting rid of democratically elected leaders and installing a dictator.

The only other thing they provided was a third engine to render standards-compliant HTML against. Then they went to Chromium. I would say fourth, but Chromium is really just forked Webkit, which is really just forked KHTML. They are different but not different enough over the amount of time.

Somehow Opera still had users before this. If anyone would pay for it, it would be these people.