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Yeah well if you think you're too smart to be influenced by propaganda, you're wrong. Especially in the age where it's not big posters anymore but subtle word choices and bots

Or, hear me out, let's not waste time developing useless and harmful surveillance technology.

None of this is required to safeguard children, and it does a bad job in its attempt - while doing a great job of scanning every user's face and documents.

Parents should be responsible, educated and empowered with tools to control their kids' activities online. Networks and mobile devices can relatively easily be configured to restrict and monitor activity, especially for young children where you might want to choose what to allow, rather than to block. There will be ways around them, but if that 1% is motivated enough and knows they shouldn't, I think that's fine.

all her 14 to 15-year-old friends have been age verified as 18 by Snapchat

I love how this sentence is just casually sprinkled there. So platforms are getting $50m fines if they do not implement "age verification", but no problem if they fail to identify minors as such? Tells you everything about how they really care about protecting children.

How are you storing the DVDs? Bit rot is unavoidable, but optical media should be much more resilient to it compared to magnetic and flash storage (~100 vs ~10 years)

Depends on both what the adblocker responds and how a given program handles failures.

Pi-Hole and similar adblockers can pretend that the domain is on the device itself (A 127.0.0.1), is an invalid IP (A 0.0.0.0) or that the domain doesn't exist at all (NXDOMAIN). Each one has its own implications, with the latter (usually the default afaik) being the most likely to have software generate a hard error and give up.

I think for many people, myself at least, the issue is not anything health-related. It's just one word: Monsanto.

GMOs are cool, but being unable to gather the seeds from the crops and use them next year really isn't.

If the firmware is vulnerable, it's only a matter of time before it gets breached again.

If you already want to experiment with pfSense/OPNSense, you could place it between your router and the ISP's and just inspect the traffic. You don't even need to pass traffic through it, you just need a single interface in promiscuous mode connected to the same network segment (switch)

Instant? My guy where do you draw the line?

Spaghetti sauce is just tomatoes and spices. It gets ready by the time the spaghetti are cooked

Him and a dozen million other people

But why would they do that from an end user's device instead of their servers? And what about the unresolvable package names?

I'm leaning more towards a bug than exfiltration at this point, but it is still a somewhat serious leak. The contents of proton pass are end to end encrypted and thus supposed to be confidential, while this has caused my whole vault to be leaked to public DNS servers via unencrypted UDP. If it was intentional, it's terrible design. Maybe some intern thought to have the client grab favicons.