Honestly, this should be every government-funded industry where they have power over members of the public. Teachers, police, prison guards, physicians, etc. Too much important info gets trapped in provincial or even municipal databases.

Compromise: mandatory service for young people, wealth taxes on older people who never had to face mandatory service.

I just included that because I was already crediting other people and rule of threes, it wasn’t meant to be serious.

This should not be considered an accident. This is the expected outcome of the US cuts to FAA. This was social murder.

Uh, i’m mostly confused why ther’es both a lemmy and a piefed when they do the same thing. Do I need to care about piefed.ca?

AFAIK the BYD cars are basically the Chinese version of Teslas - bristling with cameras and internet and computer.

I’d drive a Chinese car but not something like that.

We basically immediately had to shut down our downtown public library the moment the safe sites closed here in Hamilton.

Iran wins the Iran war

Yeah, Chromecast has been kind of a disaster for Google imho, in that it never got widespread adoption in TVs. If they’d pushed an open standard they might’ve been able to get that over the finish-line and get buy-in from 3rd parties. But instead every smart TV and smart phone has its own video streaming approach, it seems.

Right but I’m specifically referring to devices where their USB-C port is capable of full video out.

Yeah, I have a pixel 7 and was disappointed on vacation to learn that its USB-C port can’t do video when I wanted to plug it into a hotel room TV.

I don’t get why this is a Pixel thing at all and not an Android thing though. Shouldn’t any Android OS device that can do full video output over USB-C be able to do this?

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One of these things just doesn’t belong here, one of these things is not like the other ones.

This is why I have conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theories about government-provided digital ID. We could have social media that allows us to know who is verified as a real Canadian human being and who is a truly-anonymous account.

But instead we’re going to get “give your photos to Peter Thiel”, which is a tech that doesn’t solve the problem of anonymous disinfo-peddlers with shadowy backing, but does give the evilest people in the world a way to track you.

Especially since its’ pretty easy to just flag an account on Microsoft or Google as a child account. If they really wanted to just detect children online so that sites can properly enforce adult-only rules, the browser could send that as a header flag.

Looks like you double-posted:

https://lemmy.ca/post/60720643

https://lemmy.ca/post/60720644

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Hey, can’t I just get a job the same way that Doug Ford did? BTW, what undergrad degree did he get?

I love how photo-based age verification scanning is the worst of both worlds - it destroys your anonymity, but not in a way that makes it easier to run a community where you can ban a person by their digital ID since they can just make a new one with the same face since facial recognition is too crude for that.

Ah, my bad. I looked it up and while Android does have an analog to what iOS calls “lockdown”, Android uses different terminology for it, since “Lockdown” is, as you said, lock the lockscreen to be password/pin-only (which would still be a reasonable approach before being forced to turn over your phone to somebody since those are things that are harder to be compelled to provide).

Android’s version of iOS “Lockdown” is called “Advanced Protection Mode”.

I’d forgotten because the first thing I did when that rolled out was revert it so long-press on the power button was the power menu. IIRC the new default is like long-press-power-and-volume-down or some garbage like that to show the power menu.