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I mean, that'd be a major GDPR breach, be hard to extract any signal from because queries will usually be coming from a relay or from behind a NAT so you can't tell who the query even originates from, and DNS is cached heavily too so you only get a small fraction of the queries anyway. I'm not seeing a way the calculus work in favor, basically.

OTOH the question of why they'd even run a public DNS is interesting, yeah. Running a public DNS is cheap and helps the Internet work better, and they make more money when the Internet works better since that adds up to more page views. Less charitably, though, it's possibly just a thing from back when they were an engineering company first and foremost and did that kind of stuff, and now they can't turn it off without breaking a lot of things and causing a lot of costly anger.

I'll admit I'm not sure what the threat model is with 8.8.8.8.

And incredible direction. It's the first time in decades, since perhaps The Matrix, that I saw this many new direction ideas in a single flick.

I remain baffled that someone read the script and apparently said, a kung fu comedy sci fi thriller family drama with infinite timelines and jump cuts across dimensions occurring up to multiple times per second? Yeah, sounds good, this will definitely work, let's fund this.

I don't know how the Daniels did it, but whew, I'm glad they did.

I'm mildly offended that I can consistently be reduced to a blubbering mess by a show with literal fart-based plot points.

This is abhorrent, yet I'm intrigued.

Among other things: the global perception of the US sunk to unprecedented lows, below even China. The US's most steadfast allies have all rejected requests for support. This is a different world now and it's uncertain whether the US can regain its prior standing.

Yeah, that's a 100% valid point, and thanks for taking the time to build it on top of my mostly-a-shitpost quip. :) But yes. I do agree. Let's say that Star Trek is the destination, and Andor the necessary starting point on the long journey. For those of us who won't live to see the destination, it's good to be reminded what it looks like.

Unless Andor. Andor is the Star Trek of Star Wars.

To not comply while superficially pretending to, I suspect, from studying that PR. See my other comment above, where I run my mouth a little longer about this.

I studied at the PR in question and that's not the conclusion I arrive at. Let me try to explain how this looks to me.

Also keep in mind, I do think we absolutely need to keep the political pressure on and push back on identity-gating policies with all our collective might. In that light the PR itself does the two things I'd absolutely require here: one, it allows the user to put whatever value they want in that field, including none at all, and two, it disallows all apps from reading that field without the user's active permission.

Basically it's a superficially valid implementation of a bullshit requirement that still leaves all the power in the user's hands and therefore renders the requirement meaningless. Or in other words, a huge middle finger to the proponents of age-checking.

Mind you, I feel there's also value in loud non-compliance and I'm glad some are taking that road -- keep it up, folks. But I'm leery of demands that only one single approach be taken. This needs to be fought on every front we can. And to me the PR in question reads like an effective defensive move.

Thanks for the correction, I was indeed wrong about that. I updated my comment accordingly.