Gonna AES512 encrypt my silly dog gifs and rename the files stuff like "secret_uprising_plans.pdf" to drive a nosy bureaucrat crazy.

This whole situation is insane given most ISPs give you the opportunity as a parent to disable/limit usage of certain sites and services as part of your internet package. The fact that it isn't in our hands just shows it as the thinly veiled crackdown on freedom it is.

Exactly. One of the channels in my discord server was asking me to verify because it had "nsfw" in the channel name. I renamed it to "cuddles and smiles" and the age verification went away. It's lazy and flaky and I hope it encourages even more VPN and encryption usage.

It's not the traffic inside those VPNs they're looking at, it's the % use of VPNs now vs before their stupid laws. If there's been a % increase (which there has been), they might feel butthurt enough to ban VPNs too, which is much easier than banning adult content because it's just an IP blocklist.

I love the "cow tools" on that weird plate under the weird hand

It'd go the same way the brexit vote did. Millions of lied-to, impressionable people following the loudest voice in the room, being told who to blame for all their problems. Then half of them would backtrack immediately once they found out what they voted for in ignorance but it'd be too late.

Modern laptops seem better in some ways, but I keep seeing awful design choices leading to way shorter lifespans than I'd expect - ribbon cables with awful pinch points, obvious fatigue failures that seem baked in. Whoever designs phones infiltrated laptops and made those throwaway after 2yrs too

Had that recently too, and the Monday I wanted to call them was a bank holiday aaaa

From the office of generating maximum executive anxiety.

As a completely unbiased observer, soft fluffy kobolds with floppy ears are the best

aaa finallyyy tytsm <3

will we ever have a government with even a molecule of sense or are we just like bugs in some Truman show experiment to see how far you can push a populace before they go utterly mad and start eating the drywall of their enclosure

Party politics seems to shield members from individual accountability to the point where people just say "oh of course they're taking corrupt backhanders darling, they're politicians!". If an independent was pulling this crap they'd be booed out of office before lunchtime.

Bet they asked shatGPT how to save water

For so many people, Windows == Computer. Microsoft see no need to make the cage any nicer, the captive audience are just as captive anyway.

JaUnDiCe WaAaAaAAaAaVe!!!!