I've not seen an ad from Youtube for probably 10+ years on my devices (since whenever Vanced made the apk customisations popular).

Dr Evil's notepad in his evil lair.

"To Do: Kill Austin Powers tomorrow!"

Personally I think 4k (with HDR) is good enough for consumer use, so agree with the parent theoretically just not quantitatively.

It did take around 20 years from DVD to 4k Bluray though.

Obviously it can impersonate art, but where creativity and the human story matter artists need not worry.

Not that I think a back door to the shit Disney and other corporate content onwers pull is nessecarily a bad thing. But it is funny to see people here gaslight themselves into believing they have some moral right to just take what others have created.

The idea that being anonymous online will save a society from a dictator/repression is wishful thinking.

Only good faith engagement with an existing democractic system will ensure the success of democracy, but that is too hard for most poeple.

99.9% on anonymous engagement online is bad faith.

They were trying to run trains faster than typical continental high speed lines, which meant custom design work that needs loads of additional testing and certification. Rather than just use the Spanish or French high speed designs.

"who also have the rights to freedom of expression and privacy", plenty of outlets for people to be expressive in the UK (more so than in the US for example, where the right wing will obviously attack any social media restrictions) that don't involve being fed junk divisive content from mainly US tech companies.

Privacy != anonymity.

Feel free to route your traffic via Wireguard. As long as it is not setup as a service for the mass evasion of age gates by children.

The "rights" of my children to not be exploited by Zuckerberg and the rest of them are far more important as far as I'm concerned.

To counter the privacy nuts, no age gates and social media bans won't lead to a North Korean style government. If anything it is the antidote as children will have a chance to grow without being radicalised by the attention stealing algorithms. The Stasi in East Germany did rather well without internet age gates.

I read an article where some children were asked about their social media use. A few made the point that they just felt crap after a scrolling session. I think everyone here knows what it's like to realise you just lost an hour to two of potential productive time to HN. And this is just a text site.

Social media is engineered to steal your attention and feed you junk, divisive information. Why on earth would we allow kids to become addicted to that?

The US was on course to invest more as well (I guess the reason Musk saw the opportunity in Tesla), but then fracking happened and the US became energy independent with fossil.

Add the energy industry lobbying to kill clean tech and two Trump terms.

To get something better I expect more than a one-shot is needed, and the knowledge to guide it in the right way.