BoofMcQueen42

Absolutely, unequivocally: I reject this line of thinking.

My parents were these types of people. It's bullying. A grown adult with a degree and full-time job justifying this behavior is ridiculous. Where does a kid with a part-time minimum wage job and undeveloped brain get the money to afford a fully independent life? They simply can't and the adult saying that knows it. It's a way to feel good about exerting power.

If a person is so perturbed at the idea of providing something to their child while simultaneously not having full surveillance into its use, they should've worn a condom. People like this make stupid decisions, have a kid as a result, and then make it the kid's problem that they exist in this world.

Unfortunately, some parents don't understand the idea of respecting boundaries of their child. It is _their_ child after all. An object to do with what they wish.

I do see that you yourself do not do this thankfully. But that logic is still incredibly flawed and perverse in my opinion.

I think there’s a difference between privacy being a challenge (your example) versus a situation where privacy is actively undermined and disrespected (OP’s example).

It’s like accidentally ending up in the background of someone’s photo at a public park versus someone actively following and taking photos of you. Or sharing a room with a sibling versus that same sibling digging through a personal journal.

This did so-so for me. It more or less automates what you can do yourself. Seems heavily limited by YouTube functionality. I wanted a bit more.

A great adjunct, it turns out, is proxying DNS requests to YouTube through Albania. Way less pain than using a VPN to do the same thing. Paired with ISponsorBlockTV to skip in-video ads, I see nothing.

Only if the AppleTV YouTube client didn’t suck.

Ah forgot to explicitly point out that this fixes the multiple-device log-in problem. All my devices end up redirected through that single point of Golink which appends the token.

When I was dating around there was more than one instance of the other person finding it weird/creepy/suspicious that I had no Twitter/Instagram/whatever. As if a 2025 Ted Bundy would make a social media account and then post about how much he likes killing people. Surely nobody lies on the internet!

Sure would be nice if we enforced Payola laws. It's hard to believe that at one point the US Government sought to regulate fairness on something as low-stakes as radio. Today corporations do much worse and our politicians mostly sit by and watch. Maybe a small fine.

I had similar problems for a while. Especially Safari tabs that were dumped from memory on iOS. Logging in again was annoying. A quite over-engineered solution that slowly evolved in my Kagi usage uses Tailscale Golink [0].

Case 1: Kagi extension for Safari redirects from Ecosia to Kagi when on the good path. I rely on this mostly because it’s first-party so there’s a bit more trust with my queries.

Case 2: Safari Redirect Extension [1] redirects unauthenticated Kagi pages to Golink. Golink redirects back to the original page with a Kagi Token appended. Instantly authenticated.

Also, I highly recommend setting custom DNS records on Ecosia/DDG/whoever-you-redirect-from to prevent query leakage.

[0] https://github.com/tailscale/golink

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/redirectweb-smart-url-router/i...

All Dems do is act weak.

Even when they’re in the majority they play victim. “Oh no Mitch McConnell doesn’t like our bill :( We can’t do anything”. The party is too busy trying to court Republicans to get anything done.

Or they sabotage themselves. Pushing Hillary and losing was preferred to risking a Sanders win and losing corporate funding. Pushing Biden, who promised to run one term, then running him a second. Only to undemocratically replace him cause people didn’t want a senile candidate.

You have Bush-era never-MAGA Republicans publicly making statements on how they’re voting Democrat. They seem more willing to vote D than their actual base. It’s ridiculous.

Meanwhile, Republicans actively court their base and seem to accomplish things when they’re the minority party.

It’s been a decade but from what I remember, it is very dark. It was my first McCarthy book and have been hooked since.

> If the company needs to provide competitive services vs. everyone else who is using AI, they're just going to get left behind

Why not just build a damn good product that has a steady revenue stream? You don’t have to compete in a race to the bottom. There are other ways.

My email provider is boring. They do email and nothing else. Feature development is glacial but reliable. I doubt they’re rich. I doubt they’re tripling their ARR. But they have a stable business as best as I can tell and seem happy with it.

This whole “the only way to compete is to eat the world” is stupid and only makes things worse.

Density is way down on UI elements for one. OS X used to feel like a Workstation. With every release macOS feels closer to a toy. Touch is great for convenience, but not getting into the weeds with “real” work.

Wyden is an aberration. He (unfortunately) does not represent the party on these issues.