I don’t disagree on the current state. However, it’s not hard to foresee that attack tools will be developed that can maintain “attention” on an attack for days or weeks at a time with privately run agents. I’m sure they are out there already to some degree.

Cyber security in general is going to get interesting. Breaking into protected systems often requires more patience than expertise. Attackers often get detected when they take short cuts because of laziness and overconfidence. AI agents have unfathomable patience and attention to detail.l

It depends on the rest of your setup, but I recommend going with zigbee or matter/thread for the connectivity. I definitely wouldn’t put any “smart” devices on my general purpose wifi. That stuff is never going to be secure. Also, consider if smart switches would work for you instead. That way you don’t have to pay the premium when a bulb burns out.

Great system unless you have kids old enough to drive and more drivers than keys.

I did. You found a pigeon hole and stuck me in it. Then you realized I didn’t fit, but you sooo badly wanted to say that shit that you slapped a disclaimer on the end that makes the whole thing pointless.

There is not a damn thing wrong with trying to look sexy on YouTube. I made that perfectly clear, several times in fact because I knew there would be people looking for this stupid fight.

Thinking she’s trying to look sexy for the videos is making assumptions that she shouldn’t be wearing that on camera

If your not gonna bother reading a comment, why reply?

Yeah, I figured someone would make this bad assumption. There are more thumbnails than just the one in this thread and wouldn’t you know, every shirt she owns shows her belly.

I said I wasn’t slut shaming and I meant it, but she is obviously trying to look sexy, and that’s absolutely fine. There are plenty of guys with great builds wearing tank tops in YouTube thumbnails as well. I don’t blame any of them, and I’d do the same.

Also,there is a difference between making “sexualized assumptions” about someone, and noticing that they are dressed in a sexy way. I’ve personally spent a lot of time on nudist beaches and I don’t even think complete nudity is “inherently sexual”, nevermind a midriff. That doesn’t change that she is obviously accentuating her sexual appeal for these videos. That’s not inherently a bad thing, but it’s there.

That style of shirt is pretty much designed to draw attention there. No slut shaming or anything at all, but she knows what she is doing.

If you have root access to the system, then you can enter any date you wish. That’s not exactly a per-app or per-request prompt, but there is nothing preventing you from using whatever date you want. The only situation where this is going to matter is when an adult manages a computer for a minor and wants them to be age restricted.

I get the “boiling a frog” arguments against this. It does feel like a first step towards gating the Internet behind government ID. However, if this were to forever be the way things work, I don’t see a problem.

I’m also not sure how resistance from the Linux community on this law will do anything to prevent future authoritarian overreach. It could do more to keep us marginalized, which will make us even less capable of standing up to the next phase.

If you were ever in such a situation, I’m sure your lawyer would present the fact that you always have a first aid kit with you to challenge it’s relevance. People who know you could be brought in to testify as such.

On the other hand, if you don’t generally carry a first aid kit but brought one to the protest alongside the other listed items, it does seem indicative of intent.

There was just a news story that Denmark was (among other activities) stocking up on blood supplies in Greenland. That’s not an unusual thing for a military to do, but it’s pretty obvious that they were preparing to fight US forces. That’s obviously not a crime, but the logical connections to intent are similar.

If you give me ssh access to their server, then I can verify. Otherwise it’s “just trust me bro”.

What do you think an independent autit does?

In at least Illinois, this is still in the proposal phase. The bad news is that there are also more draconian proposals that require government issue IDs.

You referred to it as “solid” first, so I have no idea where you think I was confused on this point.

To my ear the word “elite” in this context always has a built in ironic connotation, but I certainly do agree that there is nothing elite about them.

You left out the global elites.

I do know our history, and in October 1962 the odds of nuclear war were less than the odds of a climate apocalypse today, because they weren’t 100%.

As bad as trump is, has he murdered 13 million innocent people yet?

Yet? No. But he is on course. The estimated number of deaths from his illegal USAID cuts is actually 14 million by 2030. That’s one policy. I expect that number will be dwarfed by the long term impacts of his environmental policy. Then we have the pending excitement in Iran to worry about. A nation of 93 million people can throw at least a few million more lives on the pyre before all is done.

Nuclear was was always an apocalypse that might happen. Climate change is an apocalypse that is happening.

Hitler was bad, but he didn’t have anything like the arsenal and intelligence networks available to Trump. We have the consentration camps, and the death camps too, although those are outsourced in other countries.

It’s not really wrong though. This kind of legislation certainly makes me hostile.

My experience is only with the Chevy Volt which was sadly discontinued. The Volt’s engine will occasionally come on if I’m accelerating from speed, like in a short merge to a fast expressway, but that doesn’t last long. Aside from that and burning old gas, the engine never comes on while the battery has charge. I have no idea how other plugins function.

It really depends on the owner and how they are driven. We have a plugin hybrid that probably uses even less fuel, since it mostly gets used around town and is consistently plugged in when at home. The gas engine doesn’t kick in at all until the battery is drained, or until it decides the gas in the tank is getting too old.