Time and Space is so vast that alien civilizations may have already come and gone in that time span.
Humans have only been around for a blink of a eye in the timeline of the universe. It could be some alien civilizations are only starting to evolve from bacteria at this very moment, or another few have already gone extinct thousands of years ago.
People should be fighting to oppose this more then trying to figure out ways to circumvent this at the moment.
Bingo! And this is why we need to remind our governments that if this is really about “protecting the children”, we should not be sacrificing our own children privacy and safety, in the name of their safety!
Somehow everyone has forgotten about parental controls that have been apart of consumer grade home routers for years.
Parental controls are there specifically to help parents. These settings allow a parent to block everything online only allowing access to approved lists of websites, generaly done through a whitelist or approved websites.
What is missing at a government level is a curation effort of websites, similar to Libraries that classify books by genres and appropriate age levels.
I would propose a government fund where Librarians or similar organizations can start this effort, and make these lists easily accessible within routers for non tech individuals, together with local initiatives and programs for parents that have a interest to learn more.
For power users lists like these already exists curated by public individuals very similar to pihole block lists and whitelists.
This concept would be the most privacy respectful IMO giving parents the most power to parent, while respecting everyone else’s privacy online including children.
Phrases like the the West or Middle East make sense when all relative to Great Britain in geography.
The British had colonies all over and the terms like middle east and the west stuck. It’s also a reason for the most common world map, the Mercator projection.
Don’t forget home routers have something called parental controls.
This would put all the power of online safety back into a parents hands and maintain all privacy online for the general public and ones children as well.
Gemini is a hot pile of garbage.
When I ask Gemini for directions it starts to give me a definition, as opposed to opening maps and showing me the way. If I ask to turn off the lights I get a conversation and I end up walking to the light switch myself.
Yo mama SOOOOO fat, that when she jump up in the air…she get stuck!
If I were to send a physical letter written in code that can only be decrypted with a cipher would I now be breaking the law?
What about radio or telephone conversations in code?
Can I still password protect my zip files or encrypt my NAS or PC before boot?
I believe the point you brought forward with it being more secure is exactly why it’s asked for in a academic environment.
With a single staple a page in a 10 page report could be attributed to accidentally falling out, where with a spiral bound set its less likely a page will “mysteriously disappear”. A student will also less likely as to resubmit a paper because “a page was missing”.
For one a law that prevents infinite scroll and another that prevents algorithm that sole purposes is to keep people engaged on the platform.
Home routers have something called parental controls which can help parents block certain websites and platforms at the home network level.
This together with parenting and education of ones children can help, all without sacrificing and giving away our privacy to third party corporations.
At a regional and country level I would suggest a government funded public service similar to a library to index the internet. Similar to how books are classified by age and genres.
These lists can be provided within each home router by defult for easy selection, or made easily available for upload by parents or users into existing routers.
These government funded publicly curated list can help parents offloaded a little of the “curration effort”. This can then simply be a setting or toggle in the router setup, applying the proper age appropriate whitelist and blocking everything else that is not on the “approved list”. The setup can even help parents classify specific devices on the home network as “child owned” so the list only works for those devices.
This would be the most “privacy respectful” option IMO over things like “age verification” or any other alternatives being suggested by corporate tech firms at the moment.
The tech for this is already here, where we are lacking is:
As for power users and tech literate individuals, public lists curated by individuals online already exist. For example Pihole and Adguard lists, these help people block and whitelist websites at the home network level.
Privacy will always be around, the tech and medium always changes but piracy will always remain no matter the product.
Correction, I am a meat popsicle.
LLM are like shuffling a bunch of words in a hat and by some dumb luck pulling out a complete sentence.
This comment chain is a real hole in one.
A group of students emptied blue ink from pens onto the stair handrails for a graduation prank.
It ended with paramedics being called to the highschool with police and news crews. Staff and students started to think it was a biological threat of sorts, as multiple random students started to get blue hands and eyes.
Same school a different year a bunch of students got on the roof and spray painted all the skylights black.
The "news* cycle is too quick and the majority of people forget due to information overload.
Hopefully there are still a select few that organize and fight specific issues while the rest of the public moves to the next big story.
This is why urban sprawl (exasperated by car dependency) is killing our ability to get around independently.
Urban density is the solution and something people should support (even those that choose to live in rural areas).
With urban density comes better public transit, better public spaces, walkability, and shorter trips to work and shops.
One of my biggest fears with getting old is loosing my independence. Having to be driven everywhere, with no other viable option of independent mobility, would effectively make me a prisoner in my own home in a American style Suburban neighborhood.