Idk the story but sounds like you were already on the street if you were working there

Exactly?..

Manjourno

Hm I know it’s common for me. If it isn’t in canada or elsewhere, then that’s just lazyness and a lack of care by your isp/router manufacturer (which makes sense cuz theres a monopoly on internet over there right? (Rip)).

Anywho, adult filter blocks on routers are a really easy thing to implement. If it isn’t then they simply don’t care to help explore the simplest of options for parents restricting access to bad sites.

I’ve heard of apps you can get for child devices that do a similar thing and let parents track their kids, which might be better anyways, assuming they arent a privacy nightmare (if parents dont prefer buying a smarter router).

I think if you as a parent have router controls and block adult content on their mobile plan if they have one (which I have seen as an option), then you are already doing a lot.

Most routers from ISPs come with “adult” content filtering enabled by default I think, at least the ones I’ve had have had this on.

VPNs already work and I can’t see them not working, so that’s always an option I guess, but they are also still an option with ID laws (ie connect to a region where they have no such laws).

Children’s safety online can’t involve limiting access and tracking everyone who ever goes online with their national ID attatched to every request (basically).

I think it’d be better if we explored the option that involves a parent blocking websites either on your network or on a device they give to you.

Let’s not pretend that these laws actually do protect children…

There is always a way around something and if there’s any population to figure it out, it’s the ones with the most free time.

The difference between going to a bar and using the internet: Showing your ID at a bar doesn’t mean it’s stored on some server possibly ready to be stolen by hackers. It also doesn’t automatically link all of your user data to your id (like it does right now) and make it easier to track your movements everywhere you go.

These laws help no one except the elite. They restrict us, limit access to information and eventually cause our data to be comprimised.

Bad parents exist, but does that mean we lockdown the most expansive knowledge base for everyone? I don’t believe this will stop any children of bad parents from being exposed to horrible things online. Age gates don’t stop that (because they either get bypassed or another site exposes even worse stuff without the age gate).

That’s what the router setting to block adult websites is for… you don’t have to monitor 24/7, have some idea that bad sites are blocked, and you can just be doing regular checkups on your child then.

There is and was never a need to involve IDs, other than more control over us as a whole and being able to extract more data.

You make it sounds like a good thing; people will wont have microslops os by default… they may pick loonix!!! (this comment is brought to you by me)

Wait im dumb miceoslip WILL HAVE AGE ASSURANCE!!! GET out everyone will you can

Yes or your second or third too :)

If you wanna start out I’d say JavaScript (or typescript) if your best bet because you can make pretty much anything with it (websites, desktop apps, cli apps, servers… anything you desire).

There’s value in real privacy friendly VPNs (think Mullvad), otherwise you just end up trusting some other, probably very shady actors with all your data instead.

Unless you need one for specific things like using free wifi safely, torrenting or getting around restrictions then there is not much benefit.

Most VPNs won’t even work for daily browsing as far as I’m aware. You’ll get hit with way more captchas and potentially just not be able to access certain sites because someone has either got the vpn providers ip banned temporarily on the site or the site bans IP addresses associated with servers.

Personally, for generic browsing, I’m not too concerned if my ISP can see the domain names I’m accessing. I, as you probably do, only use HTTPS everywhere so the domain name is the most they’ll know, but you can do some work to try limiting exposure with DNS over HTTPS (DoH), etc if you want to.

There’s also TLS 1.3 addition of ECH which further helps by hiding the hostname.

Of course your ISP will always know the IP address you send packets to, but that is an even smaller problem.

And my final note: just use one when you need to, I don’t think it’s necessary to have one on 24/7 at home like some people advise and NEVER use a free vpn or one of the more mainstream ones (mullvad is best, second choice is AirVPN).

(when a city is designed well, most cases there is no need for a bike lane, but I agree more bike lanes please!)

I do not want to be doing this to bike riders

You don’t have to, do you? I’m not sure it works as well for a bus because they are wider, but if you drive a car there’s the option of passing too closely or waiting for enough space in traffic to pass safely. Does that not work in a bus? Would waiting for a gap take hours in a bus?

Pretty annoying because (don’t forget) people in europe are still getting security patches for win10 btw. On each security patch they are specifically ticking “NOT US OR ANYWHERE ELSE” but instead “only eu”.

buddy who has to support Mint installs for work

The “work” part is probably why you have such a bad view of Mint. It could be any OS, but at work there would be a horror story every day (because theres a lot of people, most cant use computers, etc).

The ease of use and not having it break randomly is why you don’t use Arch for normal people who just need to get stuff done.

I have bad eye sight, but also 8k probably never need to be a thing on a tv, more impressive for stuff thats closer to our eyes like VR headsets probably.

Yes it is, luckily I was joking, but having a bad password, technically that can happen

If they’re ok with all of that, then by God they truly have nothing to hide.

Now start deleting everything or maybe sending some texts

I’m sure the encryption was disabled post meta buyout IT JUST MAKES SENSE!

If you can afford it

It’s cheaper, no? You just go on ebay or any other used marketplace.

I know it’s a slightly higher initial cost (depending on the phone), but phones last years, you’ll be saving way more over those years.

Yeah, I certainly hope it was an oversight on how stupid this is on this occasion, because then there’s a chance this is thrown out / reverted later if enough people speak up about it in states that implement this rule.

Depending on where they are riding it yeah that is probably dangerous. As unfortunate as it is, bad parenting can’t be the reason e-bikes are (pretty much) banned for everyone else who rides them sensibly and safely (which is most people).