I don’t block people, ever.
I have blocked a few spam bots.

I don’t think that was an untended consequence.

It depends on what model they’re using.
If its just a front end for GPT or Claude, no.
If it’s a local LLM sure, but I’d like a copy to review also.

I don’t block, outside of the occasional spambot.
Certainly never a whole instance. That seems overkill.

Can you see me?
Which one am I?

Local news
Servo
Ladybird

I used it for almost a year.
It took me ~2 months to find, understand, and tweak settings until I stopped running into issues with sites at least one every couple weeks.

And it breaks sooo many sites.
Waterfox, is Firefox that just works.

If you intentionally obscure a feature, people won’t use it.
If you make it the default, they will.

Seems typical. But we can’t know without total traffic numbers to compare to. Is that 12k out of 1m, 100k, 20k?

You need total vehicle numbers for this to start meaning anything.

Yah. It had customizations nobody has anymore.

It wasn’t locked down. I rooted it, installed a few OS’s, it even ran Linux.

I understand the point of the article. I’m saying since the very beginning, the only limits on what smartphones can do, have been what software ‘they’ want you to run.

A CPU is a CPU. Some are faster or slower, but they can all do anything.

They have been since the beginning.
That’s literally why I got an OG Motorola Droid. I said to myself “I can have a full computer in my pocket!”

A knife

I can see your argument has value in many situations.
But shame and ridicule are important social tools to shape behavior. Especially behavior of people with power and influence. Calling out dumb shit as dumb shit, is just as important as basic digital training for thease people.

50/50 maybe
Not sure

Users are persuaded in chats initiated by the hackers to divulge security verification and pin codes, ​giving them access to personal accounts and group chats, they said ​in a statement.

So we’re talking about the most basic social engineering. Nothing clever or novel. The kind of thing only your grandparents would fall for these days. Solid PSA 👍

There are plenty of structural changes that can help.
Raised crosswalks are a major one.

That’s some real Jason Mendoza style problem solving.