I wonder if it has to do with the perception of danger (and reality in the US with the massive human trafficking). Along the lines of "if my child ever disappears without a trace, maybe tracking will be able to locate them or where they were heading"?

I don't have children, but I would think that they would much prefer freedom with less curfews, less interrogation if they get home late, and a return to "just let your kids go out and play for the whole day" like was common 20+ years ago?

Maybe that would require trust that the parents wouldn't track their every move though... Then again, normalizing mentally accepting having your location tracked all the time is very dangerous...

Nvm, I realized after I typed this that it is only really useful for pre-teens teenagers, not people over 18.

It will be robots sent to kill humans, whether by another country or the country on its own citizens.

Robots killing robots is just damage to capital which the elites will make sure is not the path forward.

Ah and mega corporations never die, so never 😂

One of the best shoe brands:

http://mukishoes.com/ in Portugal.

Made with local manufacturers, zero drop, foot shaped shoes, comfortable, wool insoles, full leather versions of shoes that are waterproof with oiling.

AND, they have a resole program where their shoes are actually designed to last a long time (specifically the leather ones) and they will resole them for around 30 euros. That is quite an exception even for European made shoes. I haven't had to use it yet as my shoe soles still look great after 1.5 years of daily walking and office use.

This would also be good for MCAD maybe? It also has a ton of binary blobs often from git's perspective.

I didn't know about git LFS (which doesn't record the history of the files IIRC, just gives a pointer to larger bucket storage), so one of my projects ballooned to 1.2GB and took a lot of time to sync and then doubled when I tried to move to LFS and delete the history of those files, but at least it is fast as hell to push and pull now.

True, CEO was just a misleading marketer (if not straight up lying) and is doing the same thing at Nothing now it seems. Maybe temporarily more independent, but the entire phone is still technically designed by Chinese telecom giant partners, just aesthetically designed partly in the UK (and only there to dodge EU & swedish tax laws)

But python is more of a first class citizen in libreCalc.

You can use Numpy, Pandas, matplotlib, etc... In both excel and librecalc since recently and excel has a hacky runtime inside of it that often has to be restarted if leaving it idle for too long.

You can do 10x what you can do in excel + VBS with python packages. Dataframes alone for data analysis is night and day compared to VBS hacks.

OnePlus is just an Oppo skin nowadays.

Probably plaintext passwords of every account or something. 64byte passwords, 14 million account passwords could fit in there. Who knows.

How dare you suggest tech journalism isn't just trying to sensationalize a nothing burger without doing more than 10 minutes of research??

Communicating with external devices via USB or the old D-Sub connectors.

Printers, microcontrollers, instruments, etc... Directly instead of through the OS.

Notably, ESPHome Programmer uses it for flashing ESP32s wired. Other companies like Solo Motor Controllers use it for delivering a user GUI to customers that is always updated but that can switch between versions instantly for production without having to having to deal with window's broken method of having to manually search and download .exes for every program.

The EU is pushing very similar things...

Literally Meta has been caught paying people through shell orgs all around the world to pass this kind of legislation.

26°C inside? That is rough.

Zach Freedman always has quite thouroughly thought out videos. Not always interesting for me personally, but quite a few bangers.

And he launched Gridfinity into the ecosystem it is today.

FUTO is a bit problematic

Rossman left FUTO (unclear if it was because of their practices) anyway. Best to contribute to projects directly.

If you are looking for fireproof safes, these types technically don't let the flame in, but they get so hot that the documents turn to dust apparently. You generally need a lot bigger safe to be able to be thick enough to disperse heat

For theft, you also need a super heavy or bolted down safe or they will just take the whole safe.

Safes Re expensive stuff, sadly.

I had the GameCube "The two towers" and "return of the king"

This is definately ROTK from the GameCube by the amount of characters (TTT was only 4 I think)

Faramir was pretty great.

But that era of LOTR games was phenomenal.

Gameboy The Third Age being an advance wars/fire emblem turned based while other platforms were an open world RPG and they were all great.

The movie games were absolutely great.

The Hobbit cartoon-style game was also pretty good.

Battle For Middle Earth series was iconic and while unbalanced, had some of the most epic fights

LOTR Conquest was like battlefront with LOTR

Like star wars games in those days, there were so many different game genres where most of them were actually really well done unlike other movie based games.

I fine this a funny one.

If you can reconfigure a physical switch, that it by definition is not a kill switch for those functions. It is literally the same as turning them off in software.

It was literally never about the children

There is a lawyer's wet dream of evidence against thousands of real-world non-speculative child rapists and abusers with names, phones, emails, and literal video evidence and written admissions of guilt of systematic rape, torture, abuse, and child sex trafficking that are legally usable in court.

What has been done about it?

Not one. Single. Arrest. Because the guys implementing the tracking are the same ones raping and torturing children.

This is not a policy or tool to protect children.

This is a way for the exact same sadist pedophiles to track children's identities so that they can use that plus data broker data to figure out what kids are most vulternable and target them to be raped, tortured, and abused.

One thing that people often forget is TVs / stream boxes and Alexa/google assistants.

Smart TVs all have microphones that are recording (for "voice commands") and the same with the remotes for stream devices (though probably not unless asked because of battery life), also google and Alexa's are constantly always listening. They are simply spyware devices that parse everything you say and hand it to advertisers, insurance, governments, etc...

Phones also suffer from the battery life problem, so jury is still out on whether they listen to you because constantly recording audio would degrade battery life quite a bit (though maybe it is factored in). Phones absolutely do share location data and any phones discovered on the same WiFi network or in the same location if that data was available and from there will share entire search history of devices on the same network (well, that is on the data center end, phones likely just send what devices and for how long they were together). From there it is quite easy to advertised based on search history, unencrypted text data, etc...

For example in OP, OP had likely searched around about cars and checked out manufacturers websites and such before meeting with the parents (unless they were going in completely blind to dealerships), so it would have shared exactly the cars that they were looking at and linked it to the parents for advertising.

Still fucked, ethically wrong and legally grey, but "listening" is a bit of an inefficient way to do it, generally.