Navigation system? Music controls? I think what the NCAP is doing here is a good thing, but this is a bit too far to the other extreme.

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Alle Leute als Kinder und Jugendliche: “Ich hasse es, wenn Erwachsene mir etwas vorschreiben wollen. Ich weiß selbst, was ich will und was gut für mich ist.”

Dieselben Leute ein paar Jahrzehnte später: “Kinder und Jugendliche wissen nicht, was sie wollen und was gut für sie ist.”

Ich hoffe, ich fange nie an, letzteres zu denken.

Ah true, censorship really wasn’t quite as bad in 2015 yet, point taken

Touch, not sure. See, certainly. I have seen steam locomotives operate many times in my life because I live in a country where those are still in use as tourist attractions.

You know it used to be that when I heard the name “Donald” I thought of a Disney character. Does anyone even remember that guy?

What has changed significantly since 2015?

My childhood was before smartphones but when the Internet already existed.

In my preteen and teen years, the Internet was more or less my only escape from my horrible offline life. I envy today’s kids that they can access it everywhere.

Everyone who wants to take that possibility away from any children, go have sexual intercourse with yourself.

This is why you shouldn’t post anything to social media that anyone could ever use against you unless you do so very anonymously.

I think the line is easy to draw: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship

I oppose most censorship, but I do not oppose moderation. If you don’t want to see certain people speaking freely, you shouldn’t have to, but you shouldn’t be allowed to keep them from speaking freely to each other.

Remember when reddit was a free speech platform where pretty much everything legal was ok except doxing?

What went wrong that we can’t have places like that on the Internet anymore?

Forums. I found forums the most engaging, interesting structure for “social media” that has ever been invented. I actually tended to get to know the people on them over time.

I have no idea why we ditched that structure in favor of “platforms”.

Wait, what. Someone misses proprietary software that was rightfully killed in favor of open standards?

The funny thing is that when Chrome was first released, I was pretty excited that open source web engines were becoming more widely adopted.

Whatever one thinks of the current dominance of Chrome, I vastly prefer it to the time when Internet Explorer 6 had >90% market share. Open standards and FOSS technologies really are a winning cause even if the end products aren’t always FOSS.

That book would inform him that if he starts a war to expand Germany, the actual result will be to make Germany a lot smaller, divided into a liberal and a communist state (until the communist one gets absorbed into the liberal one), and him remembered as possibly the worst person to have ever lived.

I think this one is easy: you send Hitler any book about German history from 1933 to 1990.

Tic Tac Icegloo https://www.produkt.at/produkte/detail/id/10734/

I discovered these in my childhood before I discovered ordinary tic tacs, but they were discontinued soon after.

It appears I am getting bored with the entire Internet.

When we had web forums with thread bumping, I got an endless stream of interesting and entertaining things to react to despite there being relatively few users.

historically a “PC” is a machine compatible with the “IBM PC” and the only OS available for that was DOS or later Windows

Of course then Unix-like operating systems started to become available for the same machines, and Apple switched to Intel processors for a while too.