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.

That’s a nightmare to maintain. The electricians would need to get hazard pay for the risk of falling and the risk of drowning.

Don’t put them over car parks, put them anywhere and everywhere. It’s far more expensive to build both roofs and solar panels.

The field in question is probably being used to crow ethanol so replacing it with solar panels is an improvement if anything.

Because it takes time for an air conditioner to cool down the place, and it wastes energy to keep it running for 8 hours while you’re at work.

Well, then do that.

Those tools cost money.

GOG exists. You can literally buy games DRM free online and for the same price as on Steam.

Games aren’t like movies. You can own the games you buy if you’re willing to put in the effort.

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

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

This lawsuit is about end-to-end encryption and the lack of age verification on Instagram. So not good.

This lawsuit is about end-to-end encryption and the lack of age verification on Instagram. So not good.

The vertical axis is labelled “gun homicides”. That’s not a very useful statistic.

In my country WFH is being enshrined as a legal right. And people say the party of trade unions is center-right.

Just make me CEO of a company. Surely I can’t do worse than the crop of people they’re currently finding.

I don’t think he did understand the consequences of his actions. It’s possible the police get involved here, for starters.

“You should punch Nazi’s” is great and all, but when it’s a kid that has their whole life ahead of them that’s a different matter. This incident will probably do lifelong damage to basically every part of his life.