CompactFlax

Bear with me for a minute. Parents spend a lot of time dealing with your “traumas” at a young age, which somewhat entrains this response. As a 2 year old, the wind blew the leaf you picked up on the walk out of your hands. At 8, you didn’t get the cookie you really wanted. At 12 the boy you like made fun of your hair. These are upsetting to the child but it’s also part of a learning experience to help adjust to real life disappointments.

Sometimes your parents can’t tell the difference between a childish disappointment and a traumatic experience. They don’t see the world in your eyes. They do deal with a variety of their own issues and trauma inducing experiences, and as there’s no mandatory training course for raising a child, they don’t know how to help you through things that upset you. Usually, they care about you. But they don’t always have the emotional capacity to provide the level of support you think you need.

I very much understand why the software hits end of support but goddamn it’s irritating when something this simple is gated.

Going back to Siri on iPhone 4 (only 4S supported it despite no hardware limitation) and perhaps earlier, Apple gates features behind hardware upgrades for no reason beyond selling new hardware (eg Apple AI on iPhone 15 Pro, not plus, but it’s all in the cloud anyways). This makes it difficult to have a reasonable conversation about legitimately EOL devices - an iPad that’s EOL doesn’t get the feature for med notification because it’s packaged with the other OS changes and the amount of work to backport it to an older OS version is significant.

I think it is overall a good thing that the UK is trying to make some progress. It is disappointing that it’s come to teaching 11 year olds about pornography.

As much as porn may be a factor, there’s a lot more beyond that single factor that is involved - reminiscent of video games causing mass shootings.

Parenting and parental examples are a huge component of teaching kids to be responsible adults. When I was a kid, parental controls if they existed were a challenge that I worked on learning to circumvent (and I learned a lot about computers), but today they’re pretty bulletproof. But parents don’t use them at all. There’s not even an attempt made to limit screen time or exposure to pornography.

It’s not just parents of course; tech companies are absolutely responsible as well. It’s a complex issue.

Terror attacks are always seen as an opportunity to slam through more surveillance state.

Still too high.

TFA quotes someone saying that overall Canadian travellers are yoy while travel to USA is only 40% of last year which is heartening.

White space sensitive languages are evil.

autopilot is safer than human drivers

Tell me more. Actually, don’t, I don’t want to hear it.

it’s because the human drivers around them

Well, in that case, autopilot isn't safer than a human driver. It needs to be able to handle idiot drivers better than a human to be better than a human

Imagine how many accidents would be avoided if there were fewer cars with fewer drivers because instead of investing in robotaxis and more roads, money was invested into public transit.

Ironworkers.

I think one reason is the manufacturing locale. Europeans have high living costs and high living standards in comparison to Chinese. I’m not certain that’s the whole cost difference though.

In no way excusing bush, but the following administration had House, Senate, and Supreme court majorities and didn’t roll it back.

If they’re powered off they should be listed as unavailable/unknown.