So aggregate data is fine but personally identifiable data is not. Cool… TIL.

How is that not a HIPPA violation?

It’s so the cops can see his license and registration for when he’s pulled over.

I’m not sure some of these actual people could pass a Turing test.

You know if this was a real product somebody would have bought it.

God I hope not. Our society is fucked if it is.

I mean what does a gamer look like? 35 year old neck beard? I mean I’m a 55 year old dude that’s been playing games since I was 6 years old. Do I look like a gamer?

Find somebody playing a game. Look at them. That’s what a gamer looks like. FFS it ain’t that hard.

Yeah that’s the flip side for sure. High gas prices would have caused some much needed change.

Sorta the same but using headscale. So yeah wireguard with extra steps.

I know. I was there. How many land yachts do you see now? Because there were lots before that.

When oil gets this high it’s disruptive. People start buying less because everything is more expensive. Going to get it. All the products oil is used in …plastics, synthetic fabrics, cosmetics,etc. Shipping it. Everything. Whether we like it not this entire country’s economy is based on the price of oil.

So yes we will recover eventually. But it will be different.

Here’s the thing. They don’t want it this high. People start looking at alternatives. Buying electric cars. That sorta thing. They want oil between like $60-90 a barrel. Not $120. He’s not happy. At least not long term.

I would sue the shit outta Flock

Shhh! Don’t give them freakin’ ideas!!! :)

I hate how true this is….

You’re right they could. But I’m a systems architect who deals with university wide networks so I know what a cluster fuck that would be. It would be absolutely unmanageable. I’d wager there is no way in hell they are gonna do that.

I’m hopeful that an adult in the room is going to show how unworkable this is gonna be but who knows.

Yeah this was exactly my point. And this only works if the IPs for the VPN are fairly static. I have no idea if they are. But given that I have heard discussions about doing this I assume that is the case. I mean I have done exactly this (using a VPS) to get around some of the restrictions I see.

Well that’s the problem. If you’re on a VPN, the site doesn’t know where you’re coming from. So either all VPN services ban Utah, or all websites ban VPNs. It’s a very insidious ploy to ban any anonymity on the internet. It’s essentially letting Utah set the rules for the entire network. And it doesn’t really work anyway. I can create a VPS and set up tailscale or something similar and all my traffic goes through that server. No block of knowable VPN IPs that a website can block. So either Utah blocks all services like tailscale, which is not going to happen, or this is just pointless.

If two computers are connected to the same network, there will always be a way around these sort of restrictions.

Yeah I think it’s from ‘97.

I don’t understand all of the ass kissing of Israel. I keep reading story after story of the IDF and just normal Israelis going out of their way to be cruel. Like throwing rocks at school children. Or destroying hospitals and houses because they can act with impunity. Or arresting 5 year old kids.

I mean WTAF. Why is this something that should be supported? They are acting like bullies and should be treated as such.

I think one of the most interesting things about this story is how prophetic it was almost 30 years ago. It almost predicted enshittification.