To be more clear, I mean when parental controls are added to an app they are almost always half baked and inserted as a marketing gimmick.

As a whole parental controls are definitely important for parents to utilize to the best of their abilities, it’s just hard to actually implement them on the application level as opposed to the network or device level.

So they’ll find some inane bug as a justification to skip a release and then just never release the source ever again

It really shouldn’t be that hard to make a “block all” system. And then whitelist things you want to allow on a piece meal basis. The reason such a system doesn’t exist is because it would hurt engagement and monetization numbers and these corporations won’t stop until every man woman and child has been exploited

Epic’s is probably the best because it’s the only one that has an easy “block everything but online play” button and lets you whitelist experiences with a parental pin

Parental Controls are a marketing gimmick.

Did you know that you can’t stop strangers on Roblox from sending your kid friend requests? And you can’t delete them from your child’s account. Just block them entirely.

On PlayStation you can’t approve communication features with just friends. If you have it turned on so they can chat in game with their cousin, then strangers can send unsolicited voice calls to them.

Children should not be on internet connected devices unless you are willing to monitor their usage 100% of the time or are willing to hope and pray you’ve taught them enough about the danger and risks (and even if you have, they aren’t developed enough to understand them anyway)

I don’t think I called Microsoft to activate windows since 2012 at the latest to activate a copy of XP SP3. I’d be surprised if they got 100 calls the last decade to activate a copy of windows legitimately. Their amount of airgapped or remote systems that run windows that can’t be activated over the internet has to be miniscule

I assume this is a question to weed out candidates using AI as it’s not possible but AI tries to solve for it anyway.

Well hopefully the different forks have their ducks in a row to strip all these “features” out down the road. So glad I use LibreWolf and not Firefox proper anymore

ChatGPT might be, which is the point.

Wasn’t expecting to see biblical wisdom on the fediverse today

What are you doing step-bro site?

Your ISP is probably netflowing their side of the connection so they can troubleshoot it. They most likely have some sort of management/monitoring software for the CPE/ONT/Modem so it most likely would have a log of recent devices by MAC address. He probably was going to ask if your router was an asus because he saw the new device on the ONT port and thought maybe you had the wrong one plugged in and that was causing your issue

I think learning the basics of subnetting, vlaning, switching, and routing and IOS were the most important parts of it. I don’t think I ever needed to really know how to configure a T1 or various other dead technology. But pretty much every vendor uses a clone of IOS and knowing the proper way to logically configure a network is important. I’ve seen so many abhorrent hacked together networks in my day.

I worked for an ISP who paid for mine back in the day. Took like a 3 day e-learning course and then examine. The real world experience was probably the best way to learn

Since when has vibe coding ever been done by some one like that and not the nepo baby son of the CFo who is good at computer

Gooner AI

Yeah you can definitely bully AI into giving you some thing that will run if you yell at it long enough. I don’t have that kind of patience

Edit: typically I see it just silently dump errors to /dev/null if you complain about it not working lol

AI can help you be more agile in getting out a PoC but vibe coding always ends up eating itself and you either aren’t capable enough to fix it (because you are a vibe coder) or you spend more time on the back 9, trying to clean up the code so you don’t have so many hacks and redundancy because the AI was too literal or hallucinated fake libraries that return null or its context window expired and it wrote 5 different versions of the same function

I was going to say. The code won’t compile but it will be “finished “

I really would like to upgrade to a steam cube as my current PC is about 15 years old just with upgraded RAM, storage, and graphics but i also only play games that came out over a decade ago too

So literal space lasers?