Everyone misuses terms: obviously, understandably, 99%.
And a bunch of other nonsense, both from supporters and opponents.
And what will you achieve? Nothing.
What is your decision: to put this on each program separately and let a bunch of scumbags have photos, ages, and other data about your children that can be used for persecution? Or to simplify parental control with a single simple mechanism based on the OS and protocol?
And thus put control in the hands of parents and responsibility for content violations on content providers.
Then there would be no need for any terrible checks with a bunch of data stored who knows where by who knows whom.
The OS itself provides the client with an API containing simple information about whether the user is an adult or a minor.
It is also possible to have a requirement from TPM. The age is specified by the administrator.
It is possible to come up with some kind of state ID signature in TPM.
The programs themselves have no way of finding out more.
What are the economic prerequisites for the revival of RSS?
They did not exist even at the height of its popularity, when problems began to emerge that are present in any open source of information.
The author is mistaking his desires for reality, for example, describing the advantages and omitting the disadvantages (which evolve from the advantages).
Either the author is an old man who believes that “the grass used to be greener,” or a young man who believes such old men, but has never used RSS himself.
To really read what you want, there is only one way: to create your own parsers for each source, on top of which there will be various filters, both based on simple words/phrases and contextual.
For example, I do this either in the form of plugins or scripts for ViolentMonkey, including here on HN, where the design has been completely changed to tabular. Many topics, domains, and authors are not even displayed. Comments that contain 1-2-3 mentions of a certain word/phrase are also hidden.
For example, I have completely blocked everything related to “AI”: famous people, companies, programs, products.
As well as various hot topics: the US military, ICE, age verification (because there are two stupid camps for and against, without an objective approach and assessment).
And many other topics (discussions/comments): political, military, or mentions of specific countries or peoples whose bots are numerous here: israel, russia, china, iran, india. And the corresponding users are blocked.
Why do I block so much? Because on these topics, either stupid people or bots write the same thing year after year. Why should I see this spam?
For politics and economics, I go to other resources, and there are other filters there.
I digress a little. Overall, RSS won't help here.
Someone will mention tagging, and we've all been through that too, when whole paragraphs of tags start to form, where blocking one tag that could have been left out hides a good article.
Then someone will say that such filters could be configured in RSS... well, yes, if you take it again and make your own client/wrapper, because all clients are limited in their own way, just like website designs.
I believe it is necessary to implement this at the OS level. This has been needed for a long time, because the “goodwill” approach never works.
The introduction of age verification is something that was to be expected with the growth in the use of the web, rather than individual programs.
But there are a bunch of ways to get around it, which you do, but no one will punish you.
This way, you will have parental control and transfer it to the website, while facilitating control over minors' access to unwanted content. And this way, websites do not need to implement their own terrible age verification methods.
And when people complain that this is a problem for parents, this is exactly what will help parents: once they set the age in parental controls, programs and websites will have to monitor access (following the law, not goodwill).
This way, access can be controlled at the first level, i.e., at the OS level. There is a law, and there will be others to help improve it.
In the same way, you can avoid the use of identifiers and, in general, face verification and a bunch of nonsense.
Ultimately, the responsibility lies with parents who did not specify the user's age on the device. But there may be “products” that ignore information from the OS.
Current parental controls do not solve the problem well, because you have to pay for a bunch of questionable products, sacrificing privacy.
And it still does not protect against outdated black/white lists.
Therefore, the requirement at the OS level to have such control and place responsibility on “products” is an excellent solution in my opinion.
And quite an elegant one at that. Without involving any government identifiers or anything else.
Combined with the widespread implementation of TPM, this will become even more feasible.
> - it's hard to version control/diff
As I mentioned, this is only prototyping.
After that, we move on to implementation in code, knowing what we want to see in the end and understanding the nuances of the data itself.
> - it's done by a human fat fingering spreadsheet cells
No one is entering anything into the cells, please reread the message.
> - it's not reproducible. Like if you need to redo the cleaning of all the dates, in a Python script you could just fix the data parsing part and rerun the script to parse source again. And you can easily control changes with git
And that's what I said above. That it takes longer. Why use git/python when I can do it in a few clicks and quickly see a visual representation at every step?
> In practice I think the speed tradeoff could be worth the ocasional mistake. But it would depend on the field I guess.
Another sentence that shows once again that you haven't read what was written.
Power Query + Power Pivot + M. I don't use formulas in cells. The sheets are just a canvas for Pivot Tables, final tables, and charts connected to the data from Power Query and Pivot.
I deal with hundreds of API integrations involving various JSON, CSV, TSV, and XML files with mixed validity. My workflow: Notepad++ for a visual check -> Prototype everything in Excel. I give users a "visual", connect it to real data, and only then migrate the final logic to BI dashboards or databases.
Nothing else delivers results this fast. SQL, BI tools, and Python are too slow because they generally need "clean" data. Cleaning and validation take too much time there. In Excel, it's mostly just a few clicks.
PS: I spent 2 years (2022-2023) using LibreOffice Calc. I didn't touch Excel once, thinking I needed to break the habit. In the end, I did break the habit, but it was replaced by a pile of scripts and utilities because Calc couldn't do what I needed (or do it fast enough). The experience reminds me of testing Krita for 2 years (2018-2020) — I eventually returned to Adobe Photoshop (but that's another story).
PS2: About (Query + Pivot + BI). This allows you to process millions of rows (bypassing grid limitations). It also allows you to compress everything into an OLAP cube, taking up little space and working quickly with data.
I'm thinking about starting a blog. I often write detailed comments, but they are often limited because I can't add many images, or just the number of characters is limited, I can't add graphics.
I mean, I'm already generating some content, but it's drowning somewhere in the comments. And then I can't find what I wrote myself.
I prefer to use it as my own library, but share some research with others.
Most (though maybe not all) tech sites will publish a post about the release of the next motherboard and so on 20 times a day, but there will be no news about, for example, PCIe 7.0 and Molex, and if there is such a post, it will be just dry, here is the release and that's it. All the additional information is about it and why it will be useful to incite the audience to expectations, and possibly wishes for potential use. Even on the relevant branches or subreddits where it would be useful, no one even mentions it.
Everything is aimed at a quick release, getting paid for the publication, and that's it.
The further I go, the more I look for small blocks and re-read them once a month.
How much news did you see about another motherboard or GPU with a modified bezel and how much news was there about the development of microled (with its many applications). And in the last two years, something new and interesting has been happening in the microled field.
But where are the tech sites before this... it is better to consider another QHD OLED screen, which is not far from FHD. It's just the same old, same old every day, week, month.