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I assume you can adjust the angles so that they only cover your property.

I'm guessing you're in the US; in the UK, door bell cameras are only legally allowed to film your own property.

Nine years ago, precisely because you said: > a decade and a half ago? For me personally, the AAA game industry is entirely Nintendo, yes. Half the games I mentioned are cross-plat…

Which will be incredibly problematic if the manufacturers continue to aim for something unobtrusive. Eventually, just normal spectacle wearers will be the targets of mistrust and, …

Absolutely this. Even better, if you ever find yourself playing one of the "guys" in this situation, just act pre-emptively and introduce yourself!

> What alternate reality are you living in where the video games industry isn't a charred husk of what it was, a decade and a half ago? A world that contains Breath of the Wild, Bl…

> Video games are honestly a pretty bad example. 10-20 years ago, you'd buy your video game, and it was a complete item, that you owned and could play for as long as you didn't dam…

I'd like to see your evidence for video games getting more expensive. Even if they were like-for-like (I'll make a case that the average video game is a far better product now than…

Fair enough; pretend I said "a computer" instead.

> Video games of yore were actual games you could buy and play with friends. You had a physical copy and never had to renew a subscription, watch ads, or pay anything extra to unlo…

In the UK, it was 1984. Regulations were further expanded in 2021.

> It's hard to find a product that hasn't gotten worse or more expensive, even adjusted for inflation. Hmm. I think it's just as easy to find products that haven't gotten worse or …

Whether he stole it directly, by doing the 'work', or indirectly via an LLM, stealing it is wrong. If you generate something using an LLM, you have a responsibility to ensure you'r…

No, I'd prefer elected representatives to do that, in the same way they've decided on all the other existing harms we legislate for.

Hang on... Hacker News very clearly has a complex, opaque [1] algorithm that orders stuff. Maybe it's not user-specific, and maybe that's a good dividing line, but these are the ki…

You can often do that via settings. But we could do with a law that makes it a crime to override a user setting that has been explicitly set, without notifying the user.

I think we can approach this from more than one angle. Yes, it cannot be entirely on parents, but parents should bear some responsibility to not just hand a device over to their ch…

Maybe? I'm not sure since the UK is no longer part of the EU; we're running quite a bit behind on this kind of thing now.

And aren't very imaginative.

If it has to happen, this is exactly how it should. Please feel for those of us in the UK who are currently denied access to some pretty significant services unless we send our pas…

I think you've done a great job identifying the three main options and why two of them (parents, censorship-by-default) just will not work. That leaves regulation; the only way we …

Thousands of tiny humans crawling all over you...

Because the impact of something can be felt even when the object doesn't appreciate they are feeling it. People choose fonts for the particular impact they will have on the reader,…

I think this is a localisation issue; in the UK, it's much more common to see space-surrounded em dashes.

Em dashes don't nest (but that's probably a good thing).