You raise a good point in that last paragraph, I’ll honestly have to think about that. When I say they shouldn’t be on social media, I specifically mean stuff like Instagram and TikTok and not the internet in general because as you say the internet can be used for so much good. But these slop machine type sites engineered for attention and addiction are honestly nightmare fuel, that shit is not good for any person, let alone someone whose identity and judgement is not yet fully formed. Not to mention how alarmingly common extremist ideologies are even on mainstream sites. So, while I understand what you’re saying, I know for a fact that if I was a parent I wouldn’t want my kids near that crap.

I hate how effective the whole “think of the children” rhetoric is. Every person I talked to about this irl is either indifferent or even in support because they want children protected and they “don’t do anything they need to hide” anyway so they don’t mind presenting an ID… I agree children should not be on social media, but it’s kinda just the parent’s responsibility to not let them near it and the tools are out there. Plus let’s not pretend kids aren’t smart enough to figure out there’s alternatives…

My understanding is, you’re routing your traffic through 3 nodes, so the slowest of those 3 will bottleneck the entire process. Unfortunately it’s just how Tor works.

harnessing brainlike organoids

that sounds dangerously close to being a human

Somehow doesn’t surprise me to see Prime on here, I used to be a regular viewer but there was always something off about him. Just like the page though I also can’t really point to anything in particular.

Not sure why it’s called that but it’s a completely normal daily driveable os, just heavily debloated compared to “stock” Windows. It’s what I use, no issues.

The financial incentive is a big part of what ruined YouTube in the first place, so the lack of it is a W in my book. If a creator really is that good, I’ll support them directly.

Literally 1984 Fahrenheit 451

A threat? They will be more than happy to take work done for free and use it for their own needs. I guess at least if it’s a copyleft license they can’t just outright steal it.