Techstorm970

Sounds like their days of doing business are "Finnished"

The poisonous mindset that makes ppl into a smombie. No you dont have to be available at all times, no you dont have to reach anyone at anytime and instantly, and this is especially true for kids in 99.9% of the time. There is always a tomorrow and there is always a game they can play at home when for whatever reason they cant go outside.
Never had a phone as a kid until i got into middle school (even then it was some cheap basic one) and still survived and still had friends. And i mean real friends who help in trouble instead of running.

Yes, I agree about all the stuff a minor can get into before they know it.
If an adult can be scammed a child certainly can be too, often with serious consequenses the child and parents will both have to face and sometimes it can lead to some really bad stuff.
Even if verfication can be fooled it's still better than sitting around just watching it happen and not even trying to stop it somehow.

While it's not a "Perfect" solution, it's still better than doing or even trying nothing at all about it.

Summary
Florida Govenor Ron DeSantis passed a new law banning people under the age of 14 from using social media with the reasoning that it is heavily addictive and the young people don't understand what they are getting into. 
This legislation, called HB 3, is the same legislation that is requiring age verification for sexually explicit websites. 
 
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I think all of this new legislation has the right heart and people under 14 100% should NOT be on social media. There are so many scammers and child predators that are just waiting for kids like these to fall for their schemes. 
That said, I think the age verification is a TERRIBLE idea. Not because verifying age is bad in order to get on these websites, but it 100% could get hacked. 
 
Sources
 https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/tech/florida-social-media-law-age/index.html
https://apnews.com/article/florida-social-media-ban-desantis-fd07f61e167bd9109a83cd7355b5f164 

Whatsapp payments never caught on. Everyone uses standalone apps such as Google Pay(GPay) or their bank's app. It all runs on UPI so who cares which app you use? We aren't forced to use a particular app, so everyone uses what they like. We don't get ridiculed for using a different app than the others.

So I mostly agree with that with the major caveat being that the legal system is weird and clunky at times. There's also a difference between something being illegal and something being ruled illegal, with substantial consequences following. That's mostly semantics though. 


It isn't how popular discourse progresses. The usual assertion is "monopoly = illegal" when it's more about anti-competitive behavior. 

I hate how people discuss monopolies. 

It should be more along the lines of abuse of market power. 
Apple is the 800lbs gorilla and they will hurt anyone that strays from what they want. Think degraded messaging experience and efforts to downgrade the prestige of those who stray.

Relating iMessage usage/adoption to a smartphone monopoly has to be one of the stupiest things I've heard in a long time.

This is exactly what the European DMA is.
 
Once you reach a certain size, you have to start making sure you don't use your position of power to disadvantage other competitors.

Exactly, what is the point for me to go back to android to get if I am lucky 3 years of updates when Apple can offer me double the length at the same price. 
 
it's funny over my years, I have actually left android for iPhone and it's honestly a better experience. I still use an android device but for a very limited use case, recording videos, as the thermals for that are much better. Beyond that, its not worth getting an android device because their software update support is that bad whereas I finally parted with my iPhone 8 in September after it wasn't going to be updated anymore. We've been seeing a push to iPhone because and this is in my opinion, people want a device that will last more than two years, which software support side, android fails to deliver, such as the laughable joke that was the pixel pass program.
 
Here has been my personal phone history since my Blackberry 8820. 
Blackberry 8820 HTC Dream Google Nexus 4 iPhone 6s iPhone 8 Samsung S10e (Only used for video these days; the phone functionally was a used for a short time) iPhone 15 Pro Max So my S10e a $749 smartphone hit EOL in April 2023 after a lifespan of 4 years and 1 month with a sole security update about 7 months ago. My iPhone 8 at $849 dollar phone at the time just got today an security update, 6 and a half years later, and 6 months after the last software update. 

Apple users don't avoid switching Android because they're being blocked from doing it.  They don't because they don't want to.
 
The entire strength of the Apple ecosystem comes from it being centrally managed by Apple.  iMessage is good because it's run by Apple.  Apple Pay is good because it's run by Apple.  The app store is good.....because it's run by Apple.  You open this shit up and you end up with the Android shitshow where nothing works with anything else and a 5 year old can hack it because there's more gaping holes than a BDSM porn set.
 
If the DOJ is bored why don't they sue Nvidia...who has an actual monopoly on everything GPU compute right now.  Oh yeah because it's harder to explain that in a press release when it's an election year vs. "iPhone bad"

here's some tin foil for your hat...
 
AMD happened in a time where intel couldnt keep up with the demand for their own architecture, and several companies jumped at the opportunity to help intel out... it's just that AMD is the only one that is still around in the consumer space.

Wow... so having a high market share means you are a monopoly apparently. Want to know something funny, that 39.66% of other, shows that Apple indeed does not have a monopoly by definition. By that logic, Boeing has a monopoly too on the 700 series, or that Youtube is the monopoly on video streaming.
 
If you want to see a real monopoly, check out Luxotica. 
 
Also, dear DoJ, We are we going after google next?

by these figures nvidia has a monopoly on GPU's, intel has a monopoly on CPU's, and lays has a monopoly on potato chips.

And nothing of value would be lost.

I stopped using TikTok a little over a year ago and my life is all the better not using that stupid platform.

The convenience of having everything in the same place is what I'm excited about.
 
Otherwise, hard agree.  Utility apps can look like Windows 95 for all I care as long as it actually works as advertised.

Quite a conjecture. When I look back at my photo albums full of pictures I took as a child on a cheap point-and-shoot camera, I don't think "gee, I wish I'd taken these with the DSLR I bought 10 years later". I just look at the scenes in those pictures and the people within them and reminisce fondly. You seem to overestimate how much people value the fidelity of pictures over what memories they depict.

Unbothered, unbridled "meh" from me.
 
C2D machines are for putting Windows 7 and legacy software on, not latest-greatest stuff.  A C2D machine with Windows 11 better be a tinker-toy and nothing more.

Unbothered, unbridled "meh" from me.
 
C2D machines are for putting Windows 7 and legacy software on, not latest-greatest stuff.  A C2D machine with Windows 11 better be a tinker-toy and nothing more.

its how computers work at a fundamental level. 

Even the best programers have super exploitable memory in C/C++

It is not as easy to make rust as exploitable, we are not talking about java here really. 

Rust is finally an option for low level coding and is doing great in windows and linux drivers and will be slowing going into the kernel
WITH Rust existing, the need to write in C++ is decimated, for NEW projects that you are considering writing in C/C++ change to Rust. 

yes there will still be exploits, thats not the point. The point is there will be LESS exploits from overlooking some pointer. 

The language is the problem with C/C++ when there is a safer language that accomplishes the same tasks. 

 
AKA 70% of vulnerabilities coming from C/C++ (which to be fair, is what the OS's are written in and Chromium)

Odds are that AI will replace Jen-Hsun Huang as CEO before it replaces the need to code.