Wish that were the case where I live. Still I’ve noticed that what they’re now doing is offering the same price to everyone, but then giving the option of free Netflix for 1 year as a sign up bonus or the equivalent credit towards your service for that year, which effectively is the same practice.

Why would a 302 temporary redirects for engramma.dev → app.engramma.dev be classified as “Social engineering content”?

FWIW, Sir is not gender neutral in Gamestop.

On three separate occasions over the course of many years, I ran into an issue and searched Stack Overflow for anyone else having the same problem. The approved answer was exactly what I needed, and went to go hit the upvote button, only to realize I can’t upvote it because I was the author of the answer.

I watched the broadcast TV show leading up to the movie, and the behind the scene of how they pulled off Museum Heist was one of the best things I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait to watch the movie.

Some more info on the hack and impact: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker/

Their employees had Intune running on their personal phones and computers which got wiped. Great reminder to never mix work and personal devices.

You’ll probably get a kick out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-VHe_4GmE

But why create a system which inconveniences everyone, introduces privacy leakage, and which would be inadequate to curb the problem? Sure the comparison with booze and cigarettes at point of sale sounds like it accomplishes the same thing to restrict access to adults, but one kid buying a six pack with a fake ID can only share it with a few friends, and if they try to buy multiple kegs for a party with the whole school, there’s is probably some more scrutiny, and of course the cost, which makes it unlikely. Compare this to a code which could be texted to an entire class the moment someone gets their hand on one.

And from an implementation side, if platforms and services exist which don’t comply with the law, for example 4chan [https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/investigation-into-4chan-and-its-compliance-with-duties-to-protect-its-users-from-illegal-content], then implementing these restrictions will just push kids to the unregulated platforms. It’ll have the unintended outcomes, and take away the controls from the parents, which will do more harm than good.

Alcohol / tobacco / firearms can’t be digitally shared or reproduced. Imagine a high school with a mix of 14 - 18 year olds. If an 18 year old can get a valid code without hassle, they can share it with their friends who are in the same class, but are still 17. Or maybe they’ll share it with a sibling who is 16. What’s to stop it spreading from there? It will probably take just an hour for half of the school to get access to the one code. If the system assumes that kids won’t directly or indirectly share their codes with one another, then the system doesn’t understand teenage behavior and is flawed.

Agreed, and for every site which would comply with these rules, there are 10-100 which won’t and are not able to be controlled in the jurisdiction. Teenagers will find a way to get around restrictions, and will go to sites which are less regulated, and possibly not have the controls in place to flag grooming interactions, promoting self harm, etc.

Were you ever a teenager? This would be abused immediately, unless the codes were single use, and in that case it’s a non-starter.

This is the way. I think this is what Apple is finally implementing, but since they took too long to do so, governments have been passing laws which require privacy invasive measures that fill the void. Hard to say if that will reverse itself now that there’s a whole age-verification industry that popped up. Actually it’s unclear to me if the age-verification industry manufactured a problem to push their solution?

Had Apple implemented this in their Parental Controls setting, it would have avoided the government intervention and shady age-verification companies from popping up.

That seems like a broad generalization, and for specialized software that requires newer hardware, you’d expect to find the rate of bitflips crashes much lower than 10%. You could argue that since Firefox is supported on older operating systems, longer than the support lifetime of the OS ^[1], it’s likely Firefox is being used specifically to get the last bit of life out of the hardware before it gets trashed.

Fringe is worth it for the White Tulip episode alone. For me that was when the series changed from a monster of the week series to actual art.

One I dont see mentioned often is Dark Matter which I think is pretty underrated.

but how could this have happened? we subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced!?

Through interviews and videos I’ve seen, they spent a lot of time and effort to not have mechanics like a HUD arrow that guided you to the next objective, but rather had those in the landscape of the world simplifying the design, and creating a sense of curiosity. They also took care to put interesting side quests and hidden items along the way so that players felt like they discovered it on their own.

The boss and shrines being able to be completed out of order was a big departure from resent Zelda games proceeding it which were very linear, and they went back to the original Zelda for inspiration. This was controversial at the time, and not something new outside the series, but really forced the design of the open world to be inviting in some areas and terrifying in others.

I think the lack of author attribution on this article is a hit of AI. Clicking on other articles, they do list the author and don’t have a fake interview tone Question and Answer tone to them.

What is up with the writing style of this article?? Seems like AI Slop, but it’s worse than usual. The Verge article has more details and isn’t written poorly. Check it out and not The Guardian.

Also the documentary 13th which is directed by the same director, Ava DuVernay.