Nah they’re fine. A blog post needs a header image. They would never have commissioned some artist for that they would have just thrown the same generic Linux distribution logo or penguins that Linux blogs used ad nauseam before genai. People have been complaining about lame header images forever.

lol docker ain’t that.

I’m doing all right but frankly *reproducing * is about as fundamental a human right and human experience as can be imagined. This antinatalist/childfree doomerism just seems like a rehash of individualizing the responsibility for environmental collapse that happened through the eighties and nineties. It’s the corporations and capitalists killing the world, not the people raising families.

Idk man I love being a dad it’s just about the one thing that makes all this bearable.

Jesus man that is brutal sorry to hear you’re going through that.

Not a boat! Not a family vacation! Gasp! An… RV!?!?? SOMEONE THINK OF THE RIGHTSHOLDERS!

There is no such thing as anonymous age verification.

Any so called privacy law that enriches and ensures that age verification data brokers make bank is fundamentally and irrevocably broken.

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To all the brain dead takes like this: no, forcing through regulation users to provide a government digital id when they want to access adult entertainment is not a good idea even if it is done to protect the children.

Second day in a row this spam fud has been posted.

Yeah I mean you’re not exactly shedding some deep insight here, it’s very obviously that. While there’s merit to banning WhatsApp, it’s just foolish to ban signal. It’s the best in class for a reason, and it’s open source. France should devote resources to auditing and supporting signal if they really want to throw money to developing secure software.

Nope it’s the e privacy directive, a common mistake is to blame the GDPR for that though.

Literally this. This is the answer.

Use an adblocker

I can definitely recommend Sue Burke’s “Dual Memory” for a near future, if-not-all-powerful-AI, an AI-becomes-sentient-and-what-is-our-relationship-to-machine-intelligence story! Just powered through it over the weekend. It does a great job of personifying and embodying a recently self aware ai sentience as it works with a protagonist to save their climate-catastrophe-future city from disaster.

Pure psychopaths and masochists.

Reading TOS and Privacy Policies are a useless endeavor. They aren’t written to empower consumers or inform them abou their meaningful choices, they’re written to disclaim the maximum amount of liability. That said, I agree with everything else you said. Data brokers, surveillance advertising, and the lack of any meaningful regulations are what got us into this mess - but all those wrongs can be righted. California just passed a law to let you delete your information from every registered data broker, forever. When given the choice consumers universally opt out of surveillance advertising. And though they’re aligning on opt out frameworks, more and more states are paying comprehensive consumer privacy laws. There’s some reason to be optimistic - but as someone in those trenches… not THAT optimistic.

You think you’re a pragmatist, but you’re just an ignorant fool.

My dude the Crypto wars get wheeled out again every few years and has for decades at this point. It’s so tiring.