We can just do this.

outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service

This is likely to be the case in practice, but technologically, it does not have to be the case.

If the age verifiers (which IMO should be the governments themselves^[1], but could also be a private third-party, as long as it’s not the same as the social media company) only ever receive a blinded token representing the user, verify the user’s age, and then the user brings that token back to the social media site, unblind it, and present them the signed token, there is no way for the age verifier to track which sites a person visits, and no way for the sites to have any detail about who their users are (other than what they already have).

Hmm. To my eye, K is obviously pointing at either R or Ra (and F), R has to be pointing at Ra (and K or F), and Ra is pointing at R or K (and C).

0 Kelvin = 0 Rankine

Also, both °R and °Ra are Rankine. So 3 of the 5 people in the bottom picture also agree.

I’m not sure what “piece linked” you’re talking about, since none of the parent comments of this comment actually have a link in them.

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of FUTO, but I did read their statement about open source and it sounds pretty good to me. I actually think they’re capitulating a little bit too much by deciding not to call it open source anymore. As far as I’m concerned, if the source is available and anyone can contribute, that’s open source. I don’t particularly care whether or not it’s free for Google to incorporate it into their increasingly-enshitified products or not.

Creative Commons (an org to which FUTO says they have donated) doesn’t like their licences being used for software, presumably for finicky technical legal reasons. But if you imagine the broad spirit of their licences applying to software, all the main CC licences would be open source in my opinion. All combinations of Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike, and No Derivatives, as well as CC0 respect the important elements of open source.

Visitors with UK IP addresses*

FTFY

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The picture is Walter Cronkite, but I couldn’t tell you what he’s reporting on here. Best guess is JFK assassination, just because that’s probably the most famous thing.

I asked the same question to my parents, and my dad’s answer was also the PM dying. Though considering you mentioned Duck Tales I suspect you don’t mean the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt.

I’m old enough I probably would remember 9/11 if I were American, but it wasn’t a big enough thing here to stick in my head.

I do vaguely remember East Timor’s independence the following year being a thing, and I remember the Iraq War (mainly because of all the opposition to it) from the year after that.

If it counts, I remember where I was on New Year’s Eve 2000, too.

No, you’re thinking of “nonfungiable”. Nonfungible is when something cannot be broken or shattered.

idk, why do they start selling Hot Cross Buns on Boxing Day?

you can’t make your own character

tbh I don’t rate this high on my list of criticisms. A lot of great RPGs have you embody a specific character. The Witcher is very specific about who Geralt is, and even Mass Effect starts from a fairly defined background.

play as you like

This is definitely more concerning. If you don’t have the freedom to evolve the character (narratively, not just mechanically) and to choose how you go about solving the problems to some degree, that’s very disappointing for a game that is ostensibly an RPG and is definitely based on a very narrative-focused (TT)RPG.

No roleplay elements? Damn that’s a shame. I’m sure their marketing gave a very strong impression that there would be roleplay. Really disappointing if true.

Yes, but there are standards that exist specifically to help with this. Matter, Thread, Zigbee. And proprietary solutions Google Home, Apple HomeKit. They could have used any of these.

Why would you buy a bed that goes upright?

Health reasons? There’s a reason hospital beds can go upright.

Or just leisure, if they have a TV in the bedroom, or they use a laptop in bed, etc.

Through the internet?

Terrible design. There’s no reason it shouldn’t be possible with local connectivity. And realistically it should also have physical buttons as a backup.

edit2: actually looking at the first pic again that footpath isn’t bricks; that’s the shadow from the railing; it’s just concrete

Yeah I noticed that too after writing my own comment. But still, the railing sits on a big concrete foundation, and it’s pretty clearly right on the water. Near Mrs Macquarie’s Chair the railing doesn’t have the metal wire, doesn’t sit on the concrete foundation, and is notably raised up above the water.

and vertical tabs

Firefox’s vertical tabs are terrible. Hopefully they’ll get there, but right now they get themselves stuck in the expanded position any time you move over them to another screen, and they seem to pretty regularly get themselves stuck expanded even without that. Compared to the seamless experience that Edge offers with vertical tabs (and has done for many years), I was astonished at how much of a downgrade Firefox vertical tabs was.

I have no rational argument, but it feels like buffalo chicken is the top one. The bottom is a chicken buffalo.

I’m embarrassed to say that for me it took until the H in Human. It’s clearly an “It”. Which, considering how incredibly meticulous the rest of the sign was (itself quite suspicious in retrospect) is very jarring and out-of-place. The fact that the H is transformed not just into mess, but into a perfect rendition of two other valid characters is a very AI type of mistake to make.

There’s also, in retrospect, the question of where the photo was taken from. The photo shows an angle of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge that I don’t think is possible, especially when you add in that brick footpath and metal railing. It resembles, perhaps, parts of the railing from Circular Quay, which is west of the Opera House, and thus cannot show both Opera House and Bridge in the same photo. The angle appears to be from near Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, but here’s what the view looks like there:

There’s also something just a bit “off” about the whole text. It looks digitally super-imposed. I’d be prepared to believe it was Photoshopped in over a blank board (or a board with a different message) even if it isn’t AI, long before I’d believe it’s 100% genuine.