I have no idea about Google, I don’t use it, but Alexa, fuck Alexa is just more and more and more awful. It barely hears you, it does the wrong thing, it seems to just, forget timers. The other day my wife asked “What is the weather on Sunday” and it started rattling off about the weather in San Diego. Like, no, WTF Alexa.

The people pushing these laws are hoping it will have the “California Effect.”

Like when California says “Cars need to meet X emissions standards” so far makers just make cars everywhere meet those standards.

They are hoping that by making age verification a thing in a few states, it will become a thing everywhere.

This fails to realize that one, it’s easy to geofence a state online (VPNs being anwork around). And Two, companies generally comply with California laws because, on the whole, California passes mostly positive limitations. It only makes the cars and world better if they all meet the better emissions standards. Blocking porn like this, is a net negative.

Also, on the subject of kids accessing porn. They are going to do it anyway, anyone thinking otherwise is oblivious to the world, and two, it’s not up to the state to nanny this shit, it’s up to the parents.

I am not a professional coder, just a hobbyist, but I am increasingly digging into Cybersecurity concepts.

And even as an “amature Cybersecurity” person, everything about what you describe, and LLM coders, terrifies me, because that shit is never going to have any proper security methodology implemented.

Its HDMI only.

The Wii someone else suggested may be a good way to go, I think they are fairly easy to get a hold of. I have not personally modified a Wii yet but its next ony todo list for console upgrades.

I modded my PS Mini for PS1 games. Its pretty simple.

I bought a 3rd party drive adaptor without a network port and had to load my games on my PC using a network enclosure.

It was still a pain. Its all soooooo slow and buggy.

Once Inwas bored and started playing Contra, without the Konami Code. On a NES.

Its one of those games that just loops when you finish it.

I finally stopped a few hours later after like the 4th or 5th loop.

Another fun one was finishing GTA3 100% on PS2, without saving or dying or getting arrested

Found the non American.

If you were American, you would know its the traditional American custom to put up frammed fan photos.

Minimalist Pepe

I probably should. I left for a long while when they killed the APi and only recently went back. But recently I started actively using platforms like this one as part of an effort to remove Resdit from my sphere.

Imagine thinking Trump will do literally anything but bulldoze the Palestinians for hotel properties.

Along the northern border

Look, while most of the southern border rheroric is rooted in racism, I would say there is probably a bit of an issue there, just not nearly as terrible as these racist assholes keep pushing.

But Canada?

Are we pushing that Canada has a border issue now?

This is basically what I keep telling people.

The lesser evil sucks, its still evil, but there is zero path to good, by ever supporting the evil evil.

Like, at least with the lesser evil, you are moving in the right direction to dig yourself out.

When Musk took over Twitter I deleted all my Tweets and never even visited the site again, blocked on parental filters and through NextDNS.

I had been there since 2006.

I would definitely do the dame for Reddit if Musk took over, and I have been there since like 2010 and have some million total karma across several accounts (mostly on one).

I actually did quit for about a year when they killed 3rd party apps.