I really don’t see that happening. The internet and the real people that build it tend to be innovative tinkerers and hackers. Things get built because there’s a need and someone tries to say they can’t. P2P, darknets, proxies, VPNs, heck the whole concept of the fediverse defies the idea of control by an external entity. So they may try, but the chances are slim it works.

Maybe people will be satisfied when they can put their TV under a microscope to determine the actor’s sperm count…

It’s been observed that the porn industry is often one of the first adapters of new media tech before they become commonplace, but I’m not sure some things need to be shown in that high a resolution.

Maybe, but immortality also tends to come with things like extraordinary capabilities for self repair and by extension disease resistance, so maybe they get some sort of error correcting code in their DNA replication to go with it.

How dare you imply my ego is fragile?! Don’t question me!

In the network formerly known as freenet, forgetting the current name, traffic to and from the node, and the data at rest is all encrypted, only referenced by keys so nobody has a real influence on what they store or transmit. Plus, they only know the peer that made a request, not a source or a destination, so just ‘pass this key back to me if you have it, otherwise ask the next person’, so routing is just as opaque.

In cases like that there’s not much to be done, as it well should be because as soon as control can be performed it’ll be demanded or liability placed on those who don’t comply.

Hard to say, things like Nextcloud, Immich, Emby, and Mealie probably get the most exercise, but being a tech person some of the more interesting are things like Security Onion and some of the infrastructure tools.

Yeah, though with things like the fediverse, generations that where born into the tech world (internet only really started to be a thing around high school for me, but my kids have never used dial up) and small cheap systems like raspberry pi I expect it’ll get much easier and hopefully more common.

Self host ALL the things. I know where all my pics and docs reside right here in my house.

I deleted one I didn’t even remember having. Something I created back when I first got a smart phone and as much as I recall think I used it for the primary phone login account and had my separate emails just in the client.

Only got reminded of it when they sent an email to my main address saying it had been inactive for years and was going to be deleted anyhow, so went through this process where they unlocked it after a month of waiting to see what was in there before shutting it down. Was pretty much blank from the start so it doesn’t really matter if they actually deleted it or not.

How my main email got set as a recovery is another question, probably just many years back brain not being so good at keeping online identities siloed.

I’ve never knowingly engaged with a proper chat bot beyond the ‘virtual help desk’ things some sites use. By proper I mean some sizable system beyond what can be typically run at home.

Home ran ones are bizarre though, so far whatever I try they get stuck on go-to phrases and tend to return to specific formats of response over and over. Very much not passing the turing test.

Indeed, politicians do love to claim power and control wherever they can and kids are a handy excuse often enough.

As to the parents, at least in the USA my take is that so many are overwhelmed with how to handle it that if you get someone in power saying “we will make the internet safe for you, no effort needed” they jump all over it.

I’m in my 40’s and none of the things out there on the web that kids are doing even existed when I was their age, so there are plenty of people who are really the first generation to be sorting out how to deal with this stuff for our kids. Given my work I’m better equiped than most, but it’s still possible to get caught off guard

We have proxies, we have DNS filters, we have pre configured software packages you can install with a few clicks. Net filtering is not all that difficult.

We also have a planet full of people throwing up their hands and passing off responsibility for guiding and watching their kids to ‘someone else’.

It takes effort people, and discussions that can be difficult, and you might need to learn a tech trick or two, but it’s not impossible. Stop screwing everyone over because you want big brother to take care of the hard work for you.

Like that it is largely offline other than to search the food DB sources, no account to have to sign into and feed your data to someone.

Dislikes, some graphical glitches on my phone like buttons going off the edge and unable to scroll down. Also, no murica measurements for those of us accustomed to measuring against arbitrary, non-scientific standards.

DVD? walks my pet dinosaur out of the room

Really though, Labyrinth is the one that comes to mind.

Reality doesn’t actually consist of an unending torrent of bullshit drowning people in misery, that’s just what sells in the media and outrage algorithms.

Sometimes people like to see a win in their life rather than be told it’s all going to hell.

It’d hilarious if Trump’s fight with Musky resulted in a massive boost to NASA finding to screw over SpaceX.

Realistically, I’d more expect they just try and switch to Bezo’s cock rockets inc and claim it’s a better deal.

I would think this all this is perhaps a personal preference on a given instance, but not practical on a global scale.

If an instance owner wants to accept the risk of a chaotic, unmoderated space on their server so be it. Other instances are quite capable of blocking a comm or defederating if it’s an instance wide problem.

There’s also the potential to blockade new comms on small instances when I think of it here. If I, as an admin of a single person instance, try and set up a few niche comms for personal interests and they where report-bombed by people just being trolls, there would never be a way to get them off the ground. You would spend all your time responding to reports rather than creating content in order to avoid them being locked.

Not bad at all, we got about 5M users since the 27th it seems.

That’s pretty well what I started with 20 years or so ago, had them in some little box with some funny Nvidia CPU. That go upped to a pair of 3 TB that have somewhere around 10 years uptime on them if I recall by now, and kind of spiraled from there. Rsync on a schedule is nice for that.