The whole point of advancing technology is to make our lives easier.

The point is to make our lives better, not easier.
Is that the same thing? Maybe, maybe not.

Either way AI is doing neither right now.

I hate when companies put too many services under one account. It’s shit like that which makes you need 2FA for bloody Minecraft.

I’ll upgrade when Windows 12 comes out … is what I would say but I’ve already switched to Linux.

Fair. There’s no universe in which those three companies should be foisted on passive investors at this stages.

What’s the alternative? The basically unusable Mojeek? Rawdogging Bing? SearXNG?

At the very least, I’d be far more approving if they didn’t make me pay for a separate 300 AI searches I’d never use. If it was just “600 searches, of any type” or even just “300 searches, of any type” that would be far more acceptable.

What about the title?

I just installed Bitwarden because 979 2FA started refusing to show my codes unless I set up a password and fingerprint (and fails when I try anyway). Now to find something else I guess.

I can second this. It seems to me pretty clearly that these policies are being passed based on genuine concern for the children. They’re poorly designed but they come from a good place.

They could’ve just bloody made social media safe for everyone, instead of making us jump through all these hoops.

Of course with porn it’s a bit more complicated, being exposed to it at too young of an age has proven negative effects.

I’m trying to find a rebuttal to that but I got nothing, and it finally makes sense to me why the government isn’t banning VPN’s.

Currently most major VPN’s respond to legal requests from the government. If the government chooses to ban VPN’s, then people will change to VPN’s that won’t respond to legal requests. That would leave the government with less power to police the internet, not more.

Neither is enforceable.

They are enforceable. In the first case they can ban transactions to the VPN and ban the website from all ISP’s. In the second case they can just ban transactions to Mullvad and should Proton not comply with the ban to Proton too.

It’s not about banning people from using the VPN, it’s about scaring away the VPN providers.

You can easily make VPN’s effectively illegal. You could make them require age verification for example, or you could ban commercial VPN’s and only allow self-hosted ones. They could also do what Utah did and make it so that you effectively can’t access any websites with a VPN, because the site would be liable for any VPN users accessing the site.

The idea that the government can’t ban VPN’s is giving us a false sense of security. They can at the very least completely undermine them.

NextDNS doesn’t allow me to do that. Really for such an aggressive filter I should probably configure it to be at the browser level rather than the DNS level.

I have blocked the .xyz and .ru TLD’s (because they’re riddled with malware) so every image in this community is blank and the link is dead.

Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

The last vestiges of free speech always have and always will be offline.