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The adult entertainment industry cared decades ago [0]. Their solution is simple: sites send the RTA meta tag if applicable, browsers in accounts configured by guardians as "childr…

We already have the tech, in multiple forms. First, tagging: ASACP/RTA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Sites_Advocatin... PICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_f…

And here we are again... ASACP/RTA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Sites_Advocatin... PICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_... POWDER https…

QubesOS and Xpra+Firejail demostrate security can be improved including the X11 side. Solaris had Trusted Extensions. X11Libre has a proposal for using different magic cookies to i…

Or parents could set accounts to "child" and every service send the proper tags so the programs deny access locally. No third parties involved. PICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P…

RTALabel https://www.rtalabel.org/page.php is over 3 decades old. Restricted to Adults, pretty easy to remember. For some history and related standards, see Wikipedia: PICS https:/…

Keith Packard, another legend, was proposing X11 improvements in 2018. [0] He doesn't seem to be paid to work in X11 or Wayland, thus being free to float ideas he likes. [0] https:…

It's like if Wayland is not just a graphical system, but a full business plan. Control upstream, then companies wanting solutions will go to you first. Because why go to someone el…

What cost do they incur while tokenizing highly mistyped text? Woof. To later decide real crap or typ0 cannoe. Trying to remember the article that tested small inlined weirdness to…

If the same garbage is repeated enough all over the net, the AIs will suffer brain rot. GIGO and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656223 Next step will be to mask the real in…

It's deeper than that, it's about loyalties among you. Trump wants US military to get paid even with the federal government shutdown. [1] Like your executive fearing mercenaries ch…

"They pass more time with this! They like it a lot! Engagement achieved!!!11one11eleven" said the developer. "Why is this slower? Why do I have to burn time massaging the interface…

Found images that could match the everything one, Trump Was Right About Everything! Funny to see when he has contradicted himself, for example releasing Epstein file or throwing it…

I wanted to see it too... o_O Can someone figure the other hats? Gulf of America, USA, 4 More Years, Make America Great Again, but the one top center is hard to read, something wit…

Yes, many sites already have it, RTA is nearly 3 decades old. It seems new proposed laws always ignore such systems are not just a theory but in a reality in use. What happens over…

Upper class could completly turn off their telescreens, meaning they have partial exemptions at least. For middle class they were always on. Proles had no telescreen because they w…

We already have standards: PICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_... POWDER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_for_Web_Description_R... ASACP/RTA htt…

Guardians of minors are responsible for what they view, as well as what they drink or breathe. So they should make sure their devices are configured properly, same way they make su…

>> ...because humans had become too dependent on them for thinking. > ... but no. The causes of the Butlerian Jihad are forgotten (or, at least, never mentioned) in any of Frank He…

> wages are being suppressed "logically, necessarily" as Marc Andreessen says? https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-investor-goal-crash-human-w... Now if they could also crash factors …

Thanks to their power, their decisions affect many. Those decisions are taken sometimes blindly, even if they could pay for good advice, sometimes knowing it's only for own benefit…

The elite will finally meet the long term consequences of their past and present decisions. It will be an spectacle: the true test of how useful wealth is against the Universe, com…

Current Xorg has Glamor, using OpenGL to accelerate the 2D ops of X11. There is also Zink, OpenGL-over-Vulkan for the rare case of Vulkan without native OpenGL. OTOH, there are peo…

Unified Reich of America. It's just one letter aways from USA. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/05/22/t... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69045271 htt…

For improved security with X11, try firejail+Xpra, or Qubes OS. They will not just help in the graphical front, but also others like processes and storage isolation.