Maybe this is what finally kills tipping. When society realizes tipping culture has got to the point where people would rather not employ a human than deal with the perpetually awkward and combatative dance of tipping.

It's the false positive problem. Let's say the thing is 99.99% accurate. Well, in a deployment nationwide, with a database of hundreds of millions that's still going to be people false flagged every day. Imagine you're just walking to work and Ring pings you incorrectly as the armed and dangerous suspect they're looking for. You're in for a rough morning when the cops show up to wrongly arrest you.

I will never willingly install government spyware app.

Pretty clear the parent should have known better than to expect the Internet to do her parenting for her, but feels entitled to a pay day. Kid clearly has some mental health problems, she should bear the responsibility for not protecting him.

Very few games can't be run on Linux these days. Pretty much just the ones with kenel anti cheat (which should be treated as malware anyway)

Actually kinda agree. It'd be too far on a personal device, but on a dedicated work device it seems reasonable. Especially if the trade is you get to work from home, it seems like a fair deal.

Dunno about uk politics, but in the US, the executive and legislative branches have significant levers if they think mass public safety is at risk. I imagine UK has similar powers in times of crisis. It also associates broadcom with a food panic, which is just generally bad PR next time companies are considering their VM plans.

As you point out, one of the previous best reasons to use Firefox was good ad blocking support. But with the EULA change, shameless simping for Google and even ads being thrust onto the start page, Mozilla has made it clear this is not the best choice for ad haters or privacy conscious people. At the point you have to start digging through settings to find all the ad check boxes to turn off, it's just easier to use something else. That crowd has gone to Librewolf or Brave or whatever, and rightly so -- Firefox isn't the right choice anymore.

Licensing deals will likely prohibit them from doing so. And even if not, it's a tremendous loss of addressable market for sideload developers since the largest manufacturers will go along with it. Google doesn't have to make sideloading impossible, just commercially impractical.

The whole bank app problem would be moot if more banks had check upload on their website. For whatever reason it's often mobile app only. Last time I opened an account, they outright lied that they had web check upload. I don't want a bank app, I just want the check upload feature. I think they restrict it so as to not cannibalize their remote deposit capture subscriptions.

Discord is notorious at random AI bans, too. Really makes me wonder what big tech's strategy is since they're all doing the same thing.

If anyone is dumb enough to think Google won't be sharing your home address publicly (like they already do with their main app store), then I got a bridge to sell you.

For adult sites, there's already RTA (restricted to adults) HTML tags which work well with filtering software. All states like this need is a new social media tag type. Much easier and less burdensome for everyone...

Didn't happen by chance, either. If you don't believe me, look up what's happening with age verification laws. Data brokers like Equifax (under the guise of the AV lobby) are lobbying for ID verification on VPN services. The current privacy hellscape is engineered.

It's a solution to a self-created problem. When I traveled abroad earlier this year, the only difficult customs process was coming back in the US. Going to any other country was easy, so easy one of the countries didn't even ask me any questions, just waved me in. Don't buy into the idea you need to give the US government so much information as a US citizen to have easy access to your own country.