Amazon should not be able lock authors into exclusivity contracts with Kindle Unlimited either, but who’s gonna stop them?

Canada needs this. Also either a full fucking ban on the remote-updated epaper price tags, or at the least very strict rules on when they can be updated (i.e. once a day before opening or after closing to the public)

Canada, and still not mandatory here apparently. Which is weird because a lot of our automotive requirements do tend to follow the US due to common production lines and other such factors

Are you sure on the TPMS date? I’ve got a vehicle that’s much newer than 2007 that doesn’t have it

That sounds pretty close to what I’d expect, except for it presumably still being tied to the person overall

I think it’s less a matter of “can’t” and more a matter of “can’t … be added to bother putting in a significant effort/investment”

I mean, for the most part yes. I’m not even so much concerned about my kids viewing porn, more so than somebody else will make nasty deepfakes of them and post online etc, so age verification won’t fix that.

I could see it help with discriminating between people at their “own damn computers” and bots or misinformation/psyops campaigns run out of certain foreign countries though (assuming any ID also ties back to parent country).

So uh, do they have a list of domains that should be blocked then? One that we can check out to… uh… ensure our kids aren’t going there and stuff.

You can kinda already do that with parental controls on kids’ devices and many routers, as well as services provided by ISP’s. In Canada there’s also a free national DNS provider that has a tier the filters out known malicious and/or adult sites at the DNS level depending on which hosts you point at.

The ONLY way I could remotely support age verification is if it was anonymized from the individual, similar to how companies like Mullvad do their VPN or with prepaid gift cards etc

You get a card that has a PIN behind a scratch-off section. You can buy the card for cash or order online, but there’s nothing tying the buyer to the card.

Age verification can be similar where you go to a registered location, provide valid ID and like $5 to get a scratch off card. The code on the card just validates “user is 18+” but otherwise has no ties back to their actual identity.

If a site wants to do an age check, it can validate the card PIN or on phone potentially scan a 3d barcode behind the scratch-off. Maybe some hash check could be involved to avoid the need for a centralized provider.

I’m rather suspicious of this story given the timing and the increase of “we need online ID to protect the children” narratives being pushed by various government

It’s true that normal books do experience wear and tear, but looking at what my local library has I’d say that many or most can still least many years before needing to be retired or replaced.

As we’re seeing with Amazon, with ebooks it’s really the readers that expire over time

Yeah. It’s not just signal either that could be an issue. Sure, I want my private messages to be private, but there are financial apps, business email, and many other bits of very sensitive information that could be captured in those messages

Clover. Clover is great:

• Lush and green
• Holds down soil we
• Soft to walk on
• Needs less water than grass
• Needs less mowing
• Bees love it

Ah yes, because bots absolutely haven’t managed to fake/generate faces now have they…

Work laptop: MS Teams is taking 1.2 gigabytes of fucking RAM just to exist. I’m not in a call. I’m not transferring files. Just the basic interface with chats (which still somehow manages to suck more than chat inferences from decades ago).

The LLM will do whatever they tell it to, including making shit up in order to suit the narrative. They’re the ultimate “yes-man” that’s not even human.

Unfortunately for CEO’s, it turns out that yes-men - or yes-machines - aren’t particularly good developers or legal strategists

Governments wanting to identify and regulate speech under the guise of protecting children

Yeah, seriously. Nvidia is too busy fucking over the consumer PC market to be interested to produce a CPU that’d sell in that same market. My bet is that any CPU they release would be targeted at cloud/AI as well.

Yup, but those are the cases that make the news. There’s always gonna be some stupid/lazy ones