Assuming the Grandpa watches Fox News / OAN / Newsmax, they’ve sold him the lie that immigrants are taking their jobs and going to ruin the middle class, meanwhile it’s they who are having the middle class vote against their interests, gutting healthcare, breaking up families, dissuading workers to unionize, etc. Basically this politically cartoon:

You’ll probably get a kick out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-VHe_4GmE

But why create a system which inconveniences everyone, introduces privacy leakage, and which would be inadequate to curb the problem? Sure the comparison with booze and cigarettes at point of sale sounds like it accomplishes the same thing to restrict access to adults, but one kid buying a six pack with a fake ID can only share it with a few friends, and if they try to buy multiple kegs for a party with the whole school, there’s is probably some more scrutiny, and of course the cost, which makes it unlikely. Compare this to a code which could be texted to an entire class the moment someone gets their hand on one.

And from an implementation side, if platforms and services exist which don’t comply with the law, for example 4chan [https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/investigation-into-4chan-and-its-compliance-with-duties-to-protect-its-users-from-illegal-content], then implementing these restrictions will just push kids to the unregulated platforms. It’ll have the unintended outcomes, and take away the controls from the parents, which will do more harm than good.

Alcohol / tobacco / firearms can’t be digitally shared or reproduced. Imagine a high school with a mix of 14 - 18 year olds. If an 18 year old can get a valid code without hassle, they can share it with their friends who are in the same class, but are still 17. Or maybe they’ll share it with a sibling who is 16. What’s to stop it spreading from there? It will probably take just an hour for half of the school to get access to the one code. If the system assumes that kids won’t directly or indirectly share their codes with one another, then the system doesn’t understand teenage behavior and is flawed.

Agreed, and for every site which would comply with these rules, there are 10-100 which won’t and are not able to be controlled in the jurisdiction. Teenagers will find a way to get around restrictions, and will go to sites which are less regulated, and possibly not have the controls in place to flag grooming interactions, promoting self harm, etc.

Were you ever a teenager? This would be abused immediately, unless the codes were single use, and in that case it’s a non-starter.

This is the way. I think this is what Apple is finally implementing, but since they took too long to do so, governments have been passing laws which require privacy invasive measures that fill the void. Hard to say if that will reverse itself now that there’s a whole age-verification industry that popped up. Actually it’s unclear to me if the age-verification industry manufactured a problem to push their solution?

Had Apple implemented this in their Parental Controls setting, it would have avoided the government intervention and shady age-verification companies from popping up.

In addition to letting the website owner know about the issue, I would reach out to Troy Hunt with your evidence, so the data can be loaded into Have I Been Pwned and the affected people notified.

That seems like a broad generalization, and for specialized software that requires newer hardware, you’d expect to find the rate of bitflips crashes much lower than 10%. You could argue that since Firefox is supported on older operating systems, longer than the support lifetime of the OS ^[1], it’s likely Firefox is being used specifically to get the last bit of life out of the hardware before it gets trashed.

And someone in leadership who isn’t about to die of natural causes.

Fringe is worth it for the White Tulip episode alone. For me that was when the series changed from a monster of the week series to actual art.

One I dont see mentioned often is Dark Matter which I think is pretty underrated.

Yeah, I’ve had my share of timezone madness, but usually anytime timezones are involved, the DST doesn’t cause too much more extra work (except for potentially creating invalid times in the spring you have to handle).

It’s been a while, but i worked on something similar long ago, and the way we did it was in the user’s profile, store the TZ identifier, so for example Europe/Berlin. We had alerts for users stored in an alerts table, and there was a column for “last sent” and “next scheduled”. Everytime an alert was sent, it would check the user’s profile and use the TZ info to generate the UTC time that the next email should go out and update “next scheduled” field with the UTC value. Granted the options for the schedule were fairly limited (every hour, every day, every month), but it worked pretty flawlessly from what I recall.

Yes, I’m familiar with the Tom Scott video, but even he says at the end to store data in UTC and use a library like tzdata for rendering, don’t do it yourself. I was more curious about what day to day issues were happening because of DST, since that seems like bad implementation, and not an impossible problem that would be causing half of all IT issues.

but how could this have happened? we subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced!?

What sorts of issues? It’s been common for decades to store time in UTC, and render local time on the client side.

This isn’t isolated to tech and is how bigotry persists

So like Pokemon Animal Crossing?

It’s a sauna on a boat. She’s out in the middle of nowhere with some dude she barely knows. You know, she looks around and what does she see? Nothin’ but open ocean.

Through interviews and videos I’ve seen, they spent a lot of time and effort to not have mechanics like a HUD arrow that guided you to the next objective, but rather had those in the landscape of the world simplifying the design, and creating a sense of curiosity. They also took care to put interesting side quests and hidden items along the way so that players felt like they discovered it on their own.

The boss and shrines being able to be completed out of order was a big departure from resent Zelda games proceeding it which were very linear, and they went back to the original Zelda for inspiration. This was controversial at the time, and not something new outside the series, but really forced the design of the open world to be inviting in some areas and terrifying in others.