Taylor Lorenz had a great interview with Eric Goldman on Power User about specifically why this literally accomplishes anything but protecting kids. It's just cramming a surveillance state into Web 2.0 platforms, and will likely have worse outcomes on kids overall.
hansolo
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There's 2 separate universes here.
Devs and tech companies care only for UX, convenience, and reduced friction to use any service. They would put their granny's home address and SSN in the headers if it made a page load 10ms faster. Their incentives are all short-sighted to hit the next goal to outcompete other devs/companies and ship their end of history killer app that will solve all problems - and that will still get bloated and enshittified within 18 months.
Then there's us, a subset of rational people educated about how much data gets transmitted, who are horrified by the general state of being online, and are hard to impress when it comes to more than just saying "privacy!" when promoting anything at all.
IMO, we have to DIY and cobble together so much of our own protection, we're closer to artists that live a strange life that few people understand, seems weird from the outside, but we love for the peace of mind. Which is not enough to be any appreciable segment of the market to move the needle on any product worth real money.
I was speaking for blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jesus.
Caffeine is the only positive codependent addiction ever recorded.
And yet, the TACO rule is a rule. He always chickens out.
Yes, but no one checks the legality of cheap Chinese devices from Amazon.
Shodan.io is the searchable index of open IoT devices.
Change the default password, people!
Expert difficulty: it's also cold and raining outside. There's no food or coffee available once you get up, you have to go to the store.
"I lost the escape room, but I started a hunger strike to protest... I dunno, pick something for me."
Not me, but my spouse. I love all the rugs they pick, we always agree, but I can't match or really even understand the excitement.
But if it's shopping for food in an open green market, sign me the fuck up.
Yeah, I was going to list a lot of above knee-height clothing items and got lazy.
Indeed I did! Thanks
And 2 to 5 backup plans.