I love how thorough this development is! You’re doing a great job with development, transparency, and community engagement! Especially the parts about the use of AI, where to read more & further engage, and the consistency of all of it.

I’ve seen Reitti mentioned many times here and there, and I think it’s about time I finally delved into it!

I’m curious, but have many questions. It’s a fork of LibreWolf, but what made a fork necessary, apart from using ESR instead of RR?

The FAQ describes in some ways how it’s different from LibreWolf, in addition to pulling from other projects like the Tor Browser, but I’d love to see some near-exhaustive spreadsheet or table of features and functionalities that differ from the various projects.

What is the motivation for users to switch away from LibreWolf? Who is the team behind Konform, and how can one trust this team to build a “better” (depending on what you value) browser? And furthermore provide a consistent and safe development distinct from other browsers?

Unfortunately there are people whom grief, so you could put your efforts to maintaining the art that already exists

I share your interest, and crossposted to !linux@sh.itjust.works and !linux@sopuli.xyz.

His Japan & family vlogs are also really chill - he has become much more chill and proper. If you remember him from when he got big on YouTube 10 - 15 years ago, he was a completely different person!

Unsure about the “need”, but with current systems, less people would be beneficial in a multitude of ways, indeed, as long as it’s a somewhat controlled reduction. The first thing to suffer is the business model based on infinite expansion, which if they follow other countries’ trend, they will start to cry about to the government pretty soon, demanding efforts into increased reproduction. (Like Japan making alcohol cheaper for youth, and China making condoms more expensive.)

Yeah, there’s no way to be completely sure or safe, for better or worse.

But even if it’s not your own child, it takes a village. So if you are able to, as a safe and healthy individual yourself, you should hang out with the kid and talk about this stuff, and also converse with the parent about the child. I think with all this, there’s not a particularly big need of technological intervention. Although some simple restrictions don’t hurt.

Edit: Actually, I just recalled there being family-friendly DNS! This could be a good and simple measure for adventurous browsing. It doesn’t do anything for the content already on social media however.

There are plenty of apps that both provide restrictions upon the device as well as insight into how the device is used. But ultimately, IMHO, nothing beats open and transparent communication with your kid. Make sure they feel safe with you, and that they can share anything with you and you’d still be on their side. This way, they won’t have any reason to hide things from you, in fear of undesirable consequences. With this, the parent also has to actively engage in these conversations, not expect the kid to bring up everything of possible concern.

There are also parental control built-in with several apps. And on iPhones and Androids there’s already one available where you can do things like limit screen time, prevent app installs, and prevent opening selected apps.

When applying any restriction upon a kid, make sure to talk with them about it so they understand why you are doing what you’re doing. It is not because you think they can’t handle the freedom, but because with the freedom comes a massive responsibility to prevent harm upon both yourself and others. This is often more effective than any tech monitoring and restriction, IMHO.

If you’re asking about how to prevent them from accessing certain sites, there are some options, but they are easily circumventable.

Ultimately though, the internet is an unsafe place, where even places considered safe and mundane can turn out harmful. Open communication is key.

We already have some measurements in place like the CPS. One can also lose the rights of custody after certain convictions. This is all reactive, however, and in many cases CPS comes under fire for “not doing enough”.

This is all speculative on top of my head, and I expect a proper governmental implementation to be much more thought through and extensive than what I write here, but the gist of it I imagine is something like the following:

Before parenthood, one would need to take mandatory courses and a governmental theory test (like the test for driving) in order to be eligible to keep your child when it is born at a hospital. This is not meant to be particularly difficult, but to root out the worst, and to educate a bit through the courses.

All human births are to be registered, and when doing so, one can easily check the parents’ records for things like violent behavior, neglect, conspiracies, etc… This is where I assume most enforcements of this law. (A result of this would be even more children in children’s homes, which is another discussion as a direct result of this. (Which the government also has the power to do something about, like creating subsidiaries for foster parents.))

After the child is born, there should be a wellness checkup at something like the age of 1, 3, 5, 10, and 15, to ensure physical and mental health is good. Both the parents and the child have to answer a questionnaire separately, and if there’s reason for concern, queue CPS.

CPS is also underfunded in several countries already, from what I’ve heard around.

This is an example of where a death should never have been necessary to take action:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JBRHS5vErpg

Because that never goes well.

Could you refer me to some specific cases? I’m curious to learn. I have a feeling it’s most likely due to improper implementation, being either too narrow or too fast. This is a potentially big societal change, and needs time - years - for a proper adaptation.

This problem has become so big and deep rooted, that we need multiple approaches over a prolonged period to rectify the exposure and impressions kids (below 16, maybe even 18) are subject to.

First and foremost, education in every layer: Adults, teachers and parents need to not only be aware of what the kids are (potentially) exposed to online, but be educational about how to perceive it. Blocking is not effective enough long-term (check out the failure of COSA).

Secondly, it’s not the government’s responsibility to surveil kids online, it’s primarily the parents’ responsibility! If you as a parent are unaware of your kid being hateful and a bigot online, you’re part of the problem.

Thirdly, if we are to put any responsibility on the government, it is to mandate requirements for adults to become/remain parents. Just like we have a driver’s license to protect the public from accidents impacting innocent lives, we should have something that protects society from having unworthy parents raising assholes and potentially also ruining innocents’ lives (read suicide).

I’m tired of this, sorry for the rant. We need to step up. I’m painfully aware of what this 15 y/o girl has been exposed to, and I know of so much worse things easily available on the clear web, if not on social media.
Be the safety net your kid needs you to be, dear parents…

Considering how they completely messed up the launch of Payday 3, and then furthermore saying since (among other things) that they’d work on including an offline mode, only to decide after about 20 months that they’re not gonna do it after all due to “it wasn’t a feasible route for us” (Steam news) proves to me that they’re only thinking about the money, not the player. And fortunately, as with most companies who focus purely on the money, they get dumped by the userbase for it, as evident in the other comment here.

An article about it.

History being rewritten is no small thing. These nuances are indeed something capable of swaying opinions of many, especially considering how many read Wikipedia compared to physical history books.

In the example of Kaja Kallas, one who’s not familiar with her origins might check out her Wikipedia page and find that she was born “as part of the Soviet Union”, and might judge/defame her as someone with an upbringing or values unfit for her political role.

Nevertheless, the information is accurate (that was the place and the state of the country when she was born). And if you click on Estonian SSR (currently live on Wikipedia), you will immediately see on the top of the page:

“… was an illegal administrative subunit (union republic) of the former Soviet Union, covering the occupied and annexed territory of Estonia in 1940–1941 and 1944–1991.”

So the accurate information is still present, though it indeed matters how it is presented.

I’m not denying the campaign of disinformation and history manipulation, but I think a huge part of the problem here is how people read and consume information; take one bite of what is presented and go straight to an extreme opinion. We have become so polarized it’s ridiculous, and it’s detrimental to civilized societies.

Personally I find Navi better to use for the purpose of “not having to remember commands”. It also provides a description of the command, fuzzy search, and essentially pastes the command in the current terminal, not having to think about current directory or user.

Just is essentially a collection of aliases, while Navi is a collection of pre-written commands in full length (with optional description).

BBC has presence and offices in the US, which are held liable for conduct within the US. IANAL, but I imagine legally speaking, you can even hold them liable for content hosted in the US on servers there, perhaps going as far as content that is served to the US. Suing them is just the beginning of the legal process to legally do with that liability as they wish, like removing their servers/access in the US.

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They’re using Unreal Engine 5 for this one, iirc.

This game is one of my all time favorites! The game engine is cool, love the story and it’s all its twists, and especially all the small hidden pieces of background info, like the alternate history you pointed out!

It also has some great puzzles and secrets hidden in areas that are interesting to explore every nook and cranny of. I feel rather clever for noticing things like “huh, this is a window, but this game has something called a ‘looking glass’… I wonder…”. And the verticality of a lot of these maps is so fun, giving you the possibility to approach enemies and puzzles the way you prefer (just like the Dishonored franchise, which I can greatly recommend to anyone reading this!).

I wish you a great time with it!

Does Actiona suit your needs?

Yeah, a bit of an xy problem, I’ll admit. My ultimate goal would be invisible blocking/hiding from certain expected behaviors like the ones anti-adblockers employ. I’m not sure if what I have in mind specifically exists or not, but I find it fun to tweak and experiment with these kind of things. So I don’t necessarily have a problem I’d like to solve, it’s more an ask for directions/experiences.

I have tried Fiddler before, and it almost has the capabilities I’m looking for (it replaces an entire file; nothing granular), but it was a bit of a hassle to get working well last time I tried it, with the CA certificate, decrypting the TLS and stuff.

I haven’t heard of ZAP before, so this is new and intriguing! Thanks!