> 'If you don't want the government to have your location history, you just flip that off. You dont have to have that feature on your phone. so whats the issue?'

> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-location-tracking-data-w...

Can someone catch me up on how the settlement against Google where turning off location on your phone didn't stop them from collecting location data, plays in this Supreme Court case?

Isn't this like cell tower data, where the user doesn't have a choice if their location data is collected?

My wife is on a business trip and so it's just me. Some learnings to share on how the house works:

- Weirdly, the kitchen sink is almost exactly the geometric center of the house; hence, equal probability for odors to travel.

- And that reminds me: Need to download PDF for dishwasher operation.

- Day 2 (Friday) of my wonderful better half's travels, I started laundry. I remembered less then 2 days later that I need to transfer the clean (??) clothes from the bottom device (water/soap) to the upper "dryer" -- this device produces some serious heat. Kills odor causing bacteria, and stuff. Will call that a success.

- I find my clothes are scattered on the floor randomly. Seriously high entropy -- reminds me of CloudFlare's lava lamp application: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

- Yep, total regression to the mean of bachelor-self and loving life..and the miracles of modern technology, where like the water automatically fills in the washing device. But not the soap.

"Can you see my screen?"

grrr

Haywood reads anxiously! Memorable scene.

High stakes situation:)

Can someone catch me up how FB et al are not the ones responsible for age verification?

Is it lack of something similar to PKI for identify verification?

If we go back a few years and analyze the porn magazines that are sold in a gas station, it's not up to the magazine to ensure that the "reader" has the legal age.

So we delegated the responsibility twice, first the gas station attendant must check the age of the buyer and then, the buyer should check the age of any reader.

So now, who's the "gas station attendant" in our situation?

because there are other sites/apps online too, and it's better to decouple the "obtaining the verification" and the "presenting the verification"

and if sites and apps don't need to be in the loop for this they can't end up leaking all over the 'net

Why would you want every site on the internet to traffic in government IDs? This is by far the least bad out of all possible ways to implement age checking. The benefit of this is that it can short-circuit support for more onerous age verification. The writing has been on the wall for some time now: the era of completely unrestricted internet is coming to an end. The question is how awful will the new normal be? This implementation is a win all around, a complete nothingburger. We should be celebrating it, not fighting it tooth and nail.

The tech crowds utter derangement over this minor mandate is truly a sight to behold.

> This is by far the least bad out of all possible ways to implement age checking.

Not quite. The least bad (that I'm aware of) is to mandate RTA headers (or an equivalent more comprehensive self categorization system) and to also mandate that major platforms (presumably OS and browsers, based on MAU or some such) implement support for filtering on those headers.

But sending a binned age as per the California law is the next best thing to that.

Someone at the BBC with a degausser yelling "Exterminate! Exterminate!"

> Digg's founder who started the company back in 2004

Their plan is to make the internet what is was 22 years ago.

I wonder how much it's possible to recreate some of the old magic.

I'm sure it's impossible, but what if it's not?

Is there really better confidence we could now detect a similar 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor event?

Yes? Rubin is supposed to contribute, and more broadly we have more and better "eyes" on the night's sky than ever before. There's always the opportunity for more tracking, but tracking without being able to do anything about it would've been pointless.

IRL

> If I went to the store and asked for a pack of cigarettes

online

> and I have no idea if I can trust them with my info

Why did you trust how your ID was scanned (if carded)?

With security cameras present, where did that scanned data end up?

After losing Dark Sky on Android, I discovered Foreca app. Works well in my area in the PNW.

One thing I learned is some post processing done by these services are better in some areas than others.