Such an on-device feature would either be trivial to break (if it's an ordinary API) or be impossible to implement in an open-source browser and OS (if it's some locked-down DRM-like thing), and the latter is not privacy-preserving because proprietary software tends to be spyware.

If these moralizers would just shut up, go away, and stop trying to ruin the Internet, that'd be great.

… the founding ideas are promising, and something I dream of.

Hard disagree. The founding idea of cryptocurrency is to trick people out of their real currency. It's an elaborate fake-money scheme. Good riddance.

I don't know why I worry. Kids are practically immune to bullshit. It's always adults who repeat their crooked leaders' lies.

Taking money for a 30-year-old movie is pretty much government-assisted stealing, if I'm honest. Copyright in the USA originally had a term of 14 years.

If you think robots.txt is going to stop them, I've got a great deal for you on some ocean-front property in Colorado.

“Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip,” said no one ever.

7-Zip is excellent. It's the de facto standard archiving and compression tool on Windows, and for good reason.

Climate, real estate, price gouging, enshittification, health care, voter suppression… There's an awful lot to distract us from.

So, let me get this straight. They want to peer into the homes and bedrooms of children all over the world? Gather photographs of them? 😬

And how do they expect this to work on a gaming PC with no camera?

Also, their comment form says not to submit any personally identifiable information, such as your name, and yet it requires you to submit your name, and it says your name will be shown publicly for all to see. To object to a violation of my privacy, I must…allow them to violate my privacy?

I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. Home routers are trivial to compromise, and compromised home routers can also be used to distribute illegal content.

Don't care? They know it and they want it. The cruelty is the point.

The EU Cyber Resilience Act will effectively make open-source software illegal, and that sure as hell isn't pro-consumer. Neither is all the spooky surveillance and crippled cryptography they keep trying to mandate.

Note that humans do not exhibit this property when trained on other humans, so this would seem to prove that “AI” isn't actually intelligent.