This is true but also not at all the point of a review. Some tools are better suited for some tasks— reviews help those with the privilege of choice find the best ones for them. Otherwise you’d have a review of a hammer saying “this is a great tool for driving screws if you’re not afraid to get cREaTive with it!” Folks who need to make do with what they have already know about their constraints.
I hope you’re right! There’s certainly nothing inherent stopping a widespread shift toward VPN usage and other technical work-arounds that have been part and parcel of internet usage in many countries for decades.
Hey— performer & small site owner here. Most of the hypothetical cases in the media (and these comments) relate to Pornhub, OF, etc— companies that definitely can afford to implement age verification even if it hurts their bottom line. This totally misses the vast majority of porn sites that are very small, operate on licensed technology that may not even be maintained, and would have their ~low-5-digit annual income nuked by the cost of compliance. In these cases, geo-blocking states one by one as they implement these laws becomes the only option. Yeah VPNs exist, but HN users faaaaar over-estimate the technical knowledge & ability of the average American used to having the net served to them on a silver platter.
It's terrifying to know that this is the process for an alert like that going out. I agree with other commenters that this looks like an editorial mistake, but even if not-- a bad-actor journalist (or someone having compromised their Slack account) can get a headline like this on a major wire service in ~10 minutes!? What?!
First, the knocks on post-production completely ignore the history of film development, editing, & printing. The time to an output photo product has only gone down. Drastically.
And this piece ignores the needs of the commercial photographers high end glass is designed for, who need not a toy but as few pieces of our as possible to land as many jobs as possible. When you’re working for clients, it’s easier to own less glass and a few pieces of software that will make it look however you want.
Most technical adults I know are in some stage of trying to revert their internet usage back to the offerings this bill would allow through. The less than 1 million users careveout is HUGE— allowing for the power of small forums, federated socials, etc. seems like a great bill unless you’re trying to exploit young people.
The author takes a very narrow claim— that fax machines are popular in Japan— and expands it into a weak orientalist takedown of Japan’s objectively advanced society. They even go so far as to acknowledge infrastructure masterworks like Bullet trains only to discount them because of a (still globally used!) piece of office hardware that has fallen out of favor in the US tech sector. Whatever, dude…
The breath rate application really got my mind turning here— replacing 2 wearables (breath monitor, fall monitor) with a wireless device, and pulse sensing can already be done by video. Imagine walking into a hospital room or grandma’s home & having full bio monitoring with no tubes or cables…
Correct me if I’m misreading the article, but it’s interesting that the differentiators Graham is citing are relatively low-level, (ie keenel stuff, cpu architecture, and OS hacking), whereas almost everyone in these comments is making statements about GUI elements and even display switching. Kinda goes to show just how abstracted away the concerns of even 16 years ago have become to today’s ~devs~