luke727

Even if that were the case this is still happening. The groundwork is being laid for Apple and Google to provide age signals for things like adult websites (and not just porn). It's not a big leap to see location signals being the next thing.

Yes, this is part of living in a society.

I think ultimately we're headed for locked device attestation for age and physical location, and legislation like this is going to be a driving force. If that wasn't bad enough, I think most people are ultimately in favor of this. The future is bleak.

> Yes, but they have the uncomfortable reality of having to police the results of it

I'm not against adding some friction to certain behavior deemed undesirable by society, but at the end of the day people are going to do what they will. Vice predates the Internet by thousands of years and will not and can not be "solved" by technical means.

> The court was right, but it kind of sucks for Utah in this case. They should have the right in some way to uphold their gambling laws.

They still have the right to legislate, just not the technical capability to enforce.

Good relationships won't do much when China puts the squeeze on Taiwan. Obviously there are other fabs in other countries, but the EU won't be the only market looking for alternatives.

>Microsoft even addressed the criticism that Windows was largely not possible to use from keyboard, and massively improved it starting with Win10.

And then shit the bed completely with Windows 11. The (lack of) keyboard navigation is by far my biggest gripe there.

> Is anyone else as stunned as I am by how many posters on tech websites have suddenly gone full anti-free-internet and embracing the police state?

I suspect it's because people of our generation (I'm assuming) grew up with similar experiences to ours and had kids, and want to protect them. To be fair it's worse now than when we were growing up; I can't imagine how awful it must be to grow up in the age of social media.

> Anyone in tech and tech-adjacent industries knows the difference and that we shouldn't be calling LLMs AI.

Are we reading the same Hacker News comments sections?

I think that's a silly argument, but even if we accept it at face value 1) VPN usage is difficult to detect and 2) bad actors are still going to use VPNs. This line of thinking removes privacy from good actors while doing nothing to address security concerns from bad actors.

The majority of comments seem to think this is not a big deal. Not surprising from this crowd, but disconcerting nonetheless.

Where does this line of thinking end? What couldn't be construed as part of the software?

"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

It's just a domain name. The Onion taking it over does virtually nothing to impact Alex Jone's reach.

Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, but doesn't really change the status quo.