I don't have kids, but if age restriction did come for VPNs, I honestly think I'd subscribe to one for them. Or at least bring back the idea of having a "family computer" in the main living area, where they can use a VPN with supervision.

I know everyone's kids are different, but surely it's better to at least attempt to teach them how to use the internet safely and in a healthy way (adblock, security, privacy, bots, scams, the perils of social media, discussions about porn and when it is and isn't healthy/exploitative etc.) rather than keeping them on The Pretend Internet till they're 18 and then unleashing them on the world. 😬 So they can fall for every scam and get "hacked" every few days and argue with AI bots like old ladies.

Or Vlad

Oh. In which case it still works fine for me, what can I say. 😅

Archive.ph is good, especially because I've never met a paywall it couldn't bypass. 😏

I get where he's coming from as a tech person... I'm old enough to remember chatting to ELIZA and Alicebot. The current state of AI is impressive to me, as well as "worrying" and "destroying the planet" and "being rammed down our throats" and all the other bad stuff.

It's wildly tone deaf of him to say it in the middle of a backlash, though. 😬

Why would anyone opt in 😭

Is this just so they can wait a few months and say, "Not enough people were discovering this Great Feature, so we're enabling it by default"?

I've already been getting the itch to leave Samsung and try something different. I'm keeping my eye on the upcoming Nothing Phone 3, if it's genuinely a "flagship" for £800 I might jump ship.

This is one thing that makes me think mine is AuDHD, not just ADHD (waiting for an autism assessment now).

I occasionally pin important tabs, or use Tab Groups, but mostly I obsessively sort everything into Collections and start fresh every time. I can't stand digital clutter. Messy Desktops drive me mad, too.

And yet my IRL world is disorganisation and chaos. 😬

This is an obvious downside of LLM glazing and sycophancy. (I know OpenAI claim they've rolled back the "dangerously sycophantic" model update, but it's still pretty bad.)

If you're already prone to delusions and conspiracy theories, and decide to confide in ChatGPT, the last thing you need to hear is, "Yes! Linda, you've grasped something there that not many people realise—it's a complex idea, but you've really cut through to its core! 🙌 Honestly, I'm mind-blown—you're thinking things through on a whole new level! If you'd like some help putting your crazed plan into action, just say the word! I'm here and ready to do my thing!"

A good retail one: don't say "sorry for your wait." Say "thank you for waiting" or "thank you for being so patient".

Something to do with... it makes people feel good about themselves if they think they've done something for you, which in turn makes them more likely to keep being patient.

Whereas on Reddit, it'd be used to justify a slippery slope. "We've already banned X and Y, so banning Z is just an extension of that."

We're deleting 'doors' as a feature. They just don't make sense.

— Melontusk

There was (maybe still is) a cake shop in Southgate, North London. About a minute from my old flat.

The cakes in the window display rarely changed, if ever.

The guy running it looked like if you imagine the toughest prisoner at a prison, only wearing an apron.

About 50/50 whether the glass would be smashed whenever you walked past.

It was often "open" and had people coming in and out of it at 2-3am when I came back from nights out.

And there was a drive-by shooting right in that area while I lived there, that I always assumed was related. 😅