I’m not knowledgeable enough to assess it myself but indeed WHO / OMS doesn’t seems that plussed about it. They just apply sound precautions. Though as far as I remember from COVID back then they were nonplussed as well until if was way too late.

So let’s wait and see and hope those precautions will be enough.

Maybe read press outside of USA?

First article here mentions the specific version of the virus;

And funnily enough it also specifies that the USA is again doing USA stuff and not following the OMS reco;

And that’s from a shitty right wing newspaper.

This is literally their latest attempt at malicious compliance so you’re not wrong. EU will play ball for sure.

Maybe that’s not the most popular content on my Plex config but all my fishing session recordings are on it and those belong to me :)

My all time favourite. On private shards though. The one called « Avalon » about 20/25 years ago was my absolute fav. I would go back in a heartbeat.

Yup we agree on that. This pattern is actually the most sensible approach to support privacy. Whatever happens in transmission.

The easiest implementation of this is that the recipient of an infringing message flags it from its local client. At that point it’s not encrypted if their claim of e2ee is true.

It also means that only parties involved in the message exchange can flag / report them.

Corporations are often not so monolithic ; the guys doing abuse are likely not the one who try to milk users (looking at you marketing).

Any reported message ? Back when I was doing anti spam at my ISP we could read reported spam from our customers. Obviously not all mails from / to the customers. That would be way disproportionate.

When the power is off chances are that whatever is integrated is degraded anyway. And for actuators just choose some that fail gracefully and allow manual handling. For the rest use HA as much as possible, favour local integrations with no cloud dependencies… and when there are dependencies than make sure the override is available physically (looking at my vaillant HP). Then stack UPSes or even better home grade batteries (my next endeavour) and have backup connectivity to internet and you’re a peachy as can be.

How is Krafton removal from the steam page a bad thing? Unknown worlds is the OG owner so it should be an improvement in termes of their control over the game isn’t it?

Neat. Is the author of that piece of engineering known? What subcontractor company made this?

See you highlight the issue yourself ; forcing the websites to expose data allowing an initial set of restrictions. Once those are in place extending them beyond the initial « doing the parent’s job » scope is trivial. The infrastructure will be available to block any content.

Once those headers become mandatory to deliver content the days to http freedom are over.

Eventually the system will enforce the correctness of such headers in a way that piracy will be added. Then assisted death and lgbtq topics; I saw propositions along those lines already.

I remember one of those discussions involving European isps representative ; who is to decide on those tags and which to block? Why would 16 yo not being able to discuss a topic or reach out for help on sensitive topics? At what age are they individually mature enough for those topics ?

About that last sentence; the same crap is creeping in Europe at the very least. There was another press release about the eu commission iirc welcoming a similar decision in spirit. Just not implemented at OS level but web-side.

Not sure or Asia and Africa are feeling about this but unfortunately USA is not alone. which in my opinion gives credits to the various theories that it’s being pushed by gafam.

Can you even play Minecraft locally if Microsoft shuts down their authentication servers nowadays ?

Holy moly that’s rough

Well so are our volunteers :) They have daytime jobs + firefighters by night or on the weekends. And they are paid / compensated for their hours in the service.

Yours are not?!

I suspect these policies often assume that either we live in startrek or we’re back to the woods and have no need for superconducting magnets :-/

In belgium the personal statute of the firefighters themselves doesn’t matter for the eventual invoice. Some services are paying, other are not (yet). They get compensated for their time though. Who the fuck would not compensate them for their services? I nearly lost my father a couple of times and I practically never saw him growing because he was so invested in that… imagine that for free…

Fair point. It’s so sad to think about artists being poor to start with :-/

The things with AI is that it has yet to come for the poors…