greenskye

Modern farming is extremely reliant on gps and 'smart' planters, fertilizers, etc. Using tech to precisely control exactly how much seed, chemicals, etc is used can result in significantly less costs. My understanding is that Deere has bought out basically every company that has a decent implementation of this technology and is an effective monopoly on modern farming equipment.

You can move away from them, but expect your business costs to significantly increase as a result.

That isn't sufficient for the people trying to pass these laws. They're trying to get the government to enforce parental controls, not the parents. Those types of controls already essentially exist and yet they were deemed insufficient.

This is mostly because these people are not interested in protecting children, but rather shutting down anything they don't like. The same way they tried to shut down abortion clinics by attempting to hold them to full blown hospital building standards. It wasn't because it was unsafe, it was a way to harass the clinics they disapproved of.

I thought the same until someone shared some additional insights with me.

So basically for device verification to work, you have to prove to someone that you're an adult, typically by linking your real ID. The problem comes from when you log in to a porn website and they try to determine you're an adult by reaching out to that trusted 3rd party. Now even though the porn site doesn't know who you are, only that you're an adult, the 'trusted verifier' does know that you've visited the porn website. This makes that organization a huge security risk as it directly links your identity to visiting controversial websites.

Who would you really trust with that info? Corporation or government, both have major risks to collecting that info. What happens when FL bans porn and starts targeting people they know have accessed it via this database? What happens when LGBT info is labeled 'adult only' and requires this tech to access, creating a database of potential 'undesirables'?

Once it's created it's absolutely positive that the data will be hacked and that the government will use this mechanism to target at risk groups.

The difference between this and in person ID checks is one of data persistence. Bars and such things just look at your ID, but don't typically log it in a database. Compiling a persistent database of every 'adults only' only action is just too risky.

Will this just become obsolete the next time they update usb c to support something new? A tester that goes out of date as quickly as the cables it's testing feels pretty pointless to me

Humans outsourcing human checks to bots because it's too annoying to prove they are human. We've fallen so far.

Feels like the entire world is going backwards and yet at the same time the majority of people don't want that. Which just tells you how much power truly is in the hands of the few.

Feels a bit like a cheater letting their spouse be abusive to them because they feel so guilty for cheating. Germany fucked up so they're going to let the victim do whatever, even if what the victim is doing is wrong.

This was me too. There was some stuff post endgame that seemed interesting, but I wasn't sure what else I was supposed to watch first, so I just didn't watch anything. It was just easier to avoid marvel or put it off in favor of consuming something more straightforward.

They completely ignore the long tail benefits of building up a huge catalog. The streaming service with the biggest 'vault' wins, and yet they only seem to care about stuff actively in production.

Cancelling a story driven show early on not only pisses off fans, it effectively kills the whole value of the show for late adopters. Why would I start a show I know gets cancelled in season 2? If it had finished, people would work their way through the backlog. Owning a library of nothing but half finished shows is worse than useless for most people and further encourages people to cancel as soon as whatever current show they watch stops airing instead of sticking around to catch up on something else.

So basically regional airports are a terrible method of mass transportation

Literally no idea how a regular person would actually use those for realistic transportation. I figured those places were for private jets, people learning to fly and cargo/farm/industrial flights.

Would booking a flight on somebody's cesna even work and be affordable/safe?

Also the app is probably built on a mountain of dependencies all of which have updates and security patches and bullshit. Delaying those updates for too long makes finally making a real update a nightmare, so you occasionally release updates just to keep up.