Previously they would have had to encounter a person who wanted to manipulate them. Now there’s a widely marketed technology that will reliably chew these vulnerable people up.

Maybe it was one of those accidental discoveries.

Worked fine for me, but I block ads and trackers on my home network so that probably helped.

I doubt it.

Canadians already know it:

Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canada

I think people expect you to reflect for a moment.

That is a terrible idea. Don’t ever design important software.

These white supremacist assholes need to go.

The link sent Rademacher to a page on WebinarTV.us which featured a full recording of the Zoom recording, an AI-generated video summary of the meeting, “chapters” that sent the viewers to different parts of the meeting, and an AI-generated episode of the “Phil & Amy Show,” in which two AI-generated personalities discuss the content of the call, including quips and rapport between Phil and Amy.

So their business model is to steal other people’s meetings and add an overlay of shit? I hope it fails miserably for them.

From the CNN article:

In Tehran province, strikes have affected 275 pharmaceutical, health and emergency centers, 498 schools and 17 Red Crescent centers, Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said, citing Pir Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran’s Red Crescent society.

The Al Jazeera link has the same number:

The damaged structures include 62,000 homes, 281 medical centres, hospitals and pharmacies. Additionally, 498 schools had been damaged, as well as 17 rescue points and 12 rescue vehicles.

I would watch Crack Hamster. It couldn’t be any harder going than the Crack Fox.

Archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260326124427/https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-makes-frantic-excuse-after-irans-humiliating-reveal/

It’s being fairly widely reported, though most sites seem to say 498 schools damaged, not 600. CNN, for example, or Al Jazeera. The source is a statement by the head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, Pirossein Kholivand. Here’s an Iranian news agency giving more details of his statement. Of course, we need to bring media literacy to this and remember that truth is especially hard to discern in wartime.

VPNs? I don’t understand your question.

It shouldn’t need to reveal DOB to any other party. At most there should be an API that returns a boolean indicating whether the user is a child. DOB is too much information.

DOB shouldn’t be collected at all. Operating systems don’t need to know personal information about their users.

It’s weird that this guy is pushing it with “it’s the law” justifications while claiming it’s so ineffective as to be harmless. If your justification is that it’s ineffective, why not just do nothing? That would be even more ineffective at collecting users’ dates of birth. Why be the guy who does something? He seems oddly eager and strangely confident that all the steps he’s taking to comply preemptively won’t be misused in future, by governments, corporations or hackers.

Even if you give a false DOB, it could be one more weapon in the armory of trackers and fingerprinters.

If you’re building your own router I’d recommend OPNsense. I hear PFsense is also good.

How about the bit where they say home routers have to be approved by the DHS or the “Department of War”? This is not normal.