I've heard a few people say we've already drilled all of the easy-to-get oil, so the next civilization may not develop using oil.
But maybe all that means is they will master some other technology that we did not. It seems like previous civilizations have mastered technology that we cannot figure out.
With Android (GrapheneOS), I can customize stuff on the phone that you can't customize with iOS.
It reminds me of Apple's 1984 commercial, except that Apple users are the ones sitting down, all looking identical, drinking the Kool-Aid from Big Brother.
The irony is that things like HealthKit make it easy to build a system out of parts that just work together - my glucose monitor, watch, and scale all feed data into my nutrition tracking app seamlessly, and if I want an AI spin on the data, I use a separate app that reads the same data. Very hard to do that on Android.
My iPhone seamlessly adapts to my working context using focus modes automation - Android still doesn’t do that; maybe they have launchers with equivalent features.
Android makes it easy to customize the things I don’t want to customize, and hard to customize the things I do.
Lots of websites assume you are located in the country where your IP address is, and thus apply the rules for that country. So perhaps if someone wanted to use heuristics instead of uploading an ID, they could pretend to be in the UK by using a VPN.
Legislatively, the UK is among the stricter regimes wrt online age verification. It's a place you want to be VPNing out of. Discord is apparently rolling this out worldwide out of their own free will, not due to legislative pressures.
I was with my mother when she went to close her safe deposit box. Her key did not work, so after checking her ID (could be fake), they used a tool that very quickly removed the lock. We were then left alone in the camera-less room with all of the other boxes and the tool...
There would have to be some substance to the original article for that to be true. Instead, it merely contains analysis-free whinging ostensibly meant to nurture frustration that can be directed to other ends - likely making the problem itself worse. So my comment is more appropriately described as examining the larger scope to put the article's gripe in perspective.
If you want to see my constructive thoughts on the subject at hand, in spite of the useless article as a starting point, you can check out my other follow up comments.
> If you're only reading the stories of the false positives or the abuses of power, you're making your judgements on only a fraction of the available information.
If you're only reading the stories of the homosexual people in Germany in the 1940s, you're making your judgements on only a fraction of the available information.
But maybe all that means is they will master some other technology that we did not. It seems like previous civilizations have mastered technology that we cannot figure out.
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