That could be expanded to so many things that were creepy in the recent past but are totally normal now.

E.g. walking down the street talking loudly to somebody who’s not there.

And claim they’re just history buffs

This is what I do. I keep the old ones around for a while, and every time I realize that I’m not missing anything, and delete them.

Worst case, I’ll have to root around in my backups. But it has never happened wrt browser bookmarks.

testing

Does that mean if viewing numbers plummet they won’t roll it out? wink wink, nudge nudge!

I have yet to see my first ad on any youtube video.

🤷 https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases

You mean like desktop backgrounds IRL? 🤯

☝️ And it works, I can confirm.

Leave it at home.

I can understand the wish to film things; I recommend buying a cheap camera, maybe one to strap on your forehead (starting at $20) or an old compact digital camera. Something without any sort of connectivity. Something you can leave behind if the going gets rough.

There’s a 1min video of what happened. You don’t need a Doctor to tell you that this cop

• has way too little or no training on how to de-escalate
• obviously gets off on holding a gun and being mean and threatening

It’s all right there, and it can be summed up with “abusive asshole”.

Not to speak of the even more obvious fact that he’s deliberately withholding ID. Cops, like most public servants, are not allowed to do that.

Why do they point out that it was 4 hours ago? Did he tweet truth lie it after the attacks started? That would be …what’s the word… sanctimonious

This is a famous example but you could have chosen any of his “speeches”. I’d claim that the newer ones are even worse.

Journalists around the world have been complaining about this ever since 2016: it’s impossible to write good political journalism about Trump. There was a collective sigh of relief in 2020, manifesting itself as pleasant silence. Then Jan 6 happened…

One reason is that IP’s can be more granular as another user pointed out. OTOH that doesn’t always work so well, either - I often get pinpointed to a location some 100km from where I actually am.

Another reason could be to circumvent people’s privacy settings, which are becoming more popular even without using a VPN. Essentially a sort of “we don’t trust you with the data you give us about yourself”.

And since others brought up search engines etc., there’s a third reason: I always use English on my computer UI, but I am not in England and English is not my first language. Sometimes it’s nice to still get localised results (DDG has a drop-down to change this on the fly though).

Oh, and while trying to find a site that tells me where it thinks my IP is located right now I noticed that the top search results all ask location permissions and show me nothing without them. And “Location” is a combo of IP, cell tower and GPS. It might come down to IP only on a laptop, but soon maybe not anymore.

using Google Translate on the backend to transparently translate the website on the fly.

This is what they call “modern cloud-based solutions”. Except, now it’s “modern AI-based solutions” - same shit with a different label.

I am now trying to imagine how that works. Every time a client calls the website with an unseen (and IP-based of course) language? Do they at least cache whatever google returns?

Storing translations and switching between them at a technical level isn’t really hard.

Esp. as you yourself pointed out, the internet has been multilingual for decades now.

I’m the opposite: I find it increasingly harder to distinguish car makers just from looking at the car (without seeing the logo of course). They all look snazzy.

I just know that when I see a fancy car, and check the make, it’s BMW or something high end, and when I see a pygmy hippo lookin’ motherfucker, it’s made by one of those “buy one, get one free” type manufacturers that appeal to meth head soccer moms.

First of all, car manufacturers invest A LOT of resources into evoking that specific reaction in (potential) customers.

And I don’t like your attitude towards people who have less money than you.

You absolutely can slap a Lambo body on anything (provided it fits) and there is a literal cottage industry that exists around doing so. It’s not popular because, let’s be honest, it’s pretty silly, and everyone involved acknowledges its pretty much just for fun and entertainment.

There used to be one or two pretty popular versions of this though; not an exact copy but just a sporty chassis on top of a ubiquitous and cheap model, like the Karmann-Ghia on top of the VW Beetle.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210422014523/https://www.gnu.org/education/how-i-fought-to-graduate-without-using-non-free-software.html

Other Nordic here, and I think these ages are too low. From what I see around me, personally, but also as a professional.

They might be too old for that approach though.

Something I thought of when reading OP. Why now? He’s 15. This question would have made way more sense if he was many years younger.

[It might be the teenager himself asking here, but hey, that’s OK]

I hope you mean supportive of your son.

If so, I see this dynamic play out in some families (I work with kids) and I don’t like it. Dad metes out rules/punishment, mom’s role is to be nurturing instead. It teaches kids to play their parents out against each other. To go to another authority figure if the first one said no. To become incomplete.

As for your question: this is over the top for a 15yo. And that’s not how you help kids to learn self-regulation. It’s also kinda dismissive of puberty. OTOH it’s important to get enough sleep, esp. if you go to school, and he might need constant reminding of that. Yep, raising kids is never straightforward.

oh alright. I get that. I was going through http error codes just prior to reading it so I was primed to have something to say about it-