Ienuur4i

> Instead, they come give you a hug and have a cup of tea and politely ask you to please stop

They did. Google didn't comply.

But are the parts that are easy for machines also what is easy for humans? Human attention decreases when things get more simpler and more monotonous while an autopilot can deliver constant attention.

As a teenager I was working in IT department of a mid-sized industrial company. Which meant helpdesk jobs, assembling server racks, manually installing software on dozens of PCs when it was difficult to automate, maintaining industrial PCs (mostly removing dust or replacing cards), manually wiping HDDs and all kinds of assorted jobs that were tedious but not very difficult with basic understanding how computers worked.

Surely other industries must have similar jobs.

> 'Legalizing hard drugs' is kind of a theoretical issue because I think it's hard for us to contemplate what actual widespread use would look like

Opium dens?

> media encoding is pretty close to being "embarrassingly parallel" in principle

My understanding is that there are some fairly tight feedback loops in the encoders that make it difficult to offload things to the GPU, at least if you want to maximize the quality per byte metric. If you want to target realtime and don't need optimal compression it probably gets easier.

> Why not yourself?

Well, then what attacker do you defend against if your laptop asks your router via DoT but then the router does an unencrypted recursive lookup anyway?

The encrypted DNS proposals only cover securing the route to the recursive resolver. So the recursive resolver (your ISP, google, cloudflare) will still see all the sites you're visiting.

We also need encrypted DNS for the recursive lookup itself so you can run your own resolver somewhere.