As much as people hate Musk, Tesla is unusual in that they allow you to opt out of all connectivity. Get no updates, send no video, audio, or data to the company

Loss of licence in a city built exclusively for car based transport isn’t going to be very successful in keeping people from driving

I started using YouTube back when it was new. When the default view was the videos from the channels you subscribed to, and I have kept that pattern.

It seems to work, except for the few weeks after a holiday I empty my YouTube, nebula, and podcast feeds early each day

We have a clean desk policy at my workplace too, we also don’t take classified documents home

We need to provide a photo of our home work area as part of our application for work from home. It’s needed as part of the employer’s duty of care - managers are supposed to examine the photo and determine its a safe work area

Really all that happens is a photo is attached to the application and never looked at

I doubt American employers have any duty of care towards work from home employees.

I bet the unblurring was about being able to see the documents. AI blur is pretty aggressive at blurring anything that isn’t a face

It’s cheaper over very few years to narrow the road. Perhaps by adding protected cycleways, a raised median

And it works better. People drive slower when roads are narrower

They might be able to see if the data indicates the network has been though NAT (network address translation) twice, but that would look just like someone who has plugged their own wifi box into the modem

There’s always NAT. You get one IP address, your router/wifi shares the network using NAT

But ISPs aren’t looking for NAT, since everyone with wifi is using it

Were Firefox to go bad, we would use a non-bad fork off Firefox. It’s open source.

Lucky kids

Do you mean that you don’t like the way they prefer to defend individuals against corporations rather than the other way around, or the way they don’t help people defend themselves against lawful and reasonable government action?

I’m 47, and the early games for me were clear. Five year olds don’t get to play arcade machines in 1982, but they do get to play an older relative’s game and watch

And that stuff is memorable

I doubt the post iPad (maybe the post home computer) people have much chance though. 3 year olds have games made for them, though they’re in this thread, naming popular games

Octopus on a Nintendo game and watch (though it’s hard to put things in order, I had a knockoff portable game in 1987 “submarine battle”, and I feel the Nintendo has to be earlier, or what else could the knockoff be knocking off? Yeah game and watch was 1980 onwards)

Australia isn’t afraid to be racist as fuck on our own behalf. We voted down an anti-racist (pro indigenous) change to our parliament in six out of six states and one of two mainland territories. Only the capital territory voted in favour.

If America asks us to be more racist, discriminate against a white guy against our own sporting interests for being a decent human in dealing with American black men, of course we will. That’s easier than participating in an illegal war which we’ll also do just because America asks.

When you vote in private, on paper, none is always an option. You can deposit a blank form, a form with 1 in every box, a form with zero in every box, a sketch

We can. And pre-poll votes. We don’t need to mail forms to everyone as most people can and will make it to a polling place on the day.

We can also vote out of state or from outside the country at an embassy or High Commission

And you can buy a sausage on a slice of bread

Yep. Us Aussies can only waste our vote deliberately. If we want to vote we can number every box. And because we have a single transferable vote we have a lot of boxes, the last senate vote form had more than 40, and you could vote any of them first

And if the rest of your electorate didn’t rate your number 1, you might agree on number 2

News reports call out the losers — this party is last, its votes get distributed per the voters’ forms and you watch for which bars on the graph grow as the shooters and hunters party (I didn’t get to vote in the election where the sun ripened warm tomato party failed to get elected) is excluded. A forty horse race is better than a two horse race

It’s also nice to choose your actual preference, even if it isn’t popular

I knew it would be that Tom Scott video

You’d have states mandating voting, and passing laws that businesses must give staff time off to vote. That’ll never get up