I don’t use nor need screentime control.

It depends on what your goal is.

I see them as very useful when you want to reduce distractions and unwanted habits. Block specific apps during work hours or in the evening.

For parenting, a simple time limit may be enough, or time ranges may be desirable and reasonable or required.

The things I may prefer to be without I see largely as coping mechanisms. Generally, I can commit to not do stuff, I think. Before forced control, adding barriers to access can be the first barrier to add.

Filed in 2021. That’s such a long timeframe, makes me wonder if inflation is priced in. If they appeal for three years, will it be inflation adjusted or be increased by central interest rates?

In a work business context, the company provides and owns the devices, and for security it needs to monitor not individual person behavior but threat indication and traceability. Network traffic should be routed through a company router to restrict and monitor which device and account talks to which systems and services and to monitor indications of breach.

The logging data must not be endlessly persistend for space usage reduction, data minimization, and eventual privacy. There must not be direct unauthorized access but access must be restricted and reasons must be documented.

When the devices are company owned and the usage announced to shall be only company activities not private activities, the privacy implications are low. If individuals specific behaviors are not monitored but only their broader activities across edges with security relevance and if that information is not accessed without reason, then it’s not a significant private issue but on the other hand remains security relevant anyway.

DNS and network filtering makes sense from a security perspective. If the company can assume only work related tasks are being done they can make reasonable guesses which services or countries will be accessed or internal services may be accessed from.

Parental controls make sense and change with age, parental education, and personality and trustworthiness.

I’m not sure how useful monitoring would be beyond basic indications.

What I would like to have for my own system; I would like to control and monitor which programs can see, read or write which files, services, and network targets. I do use some stuff in that area, but I would like a more obvious, convenient, and secure framework/suite. To protect myself from bad programs (which may not be “bad” initially and for a while). Zero trust means apps should run in minimum environments and access, not inherit the whole user session context and user accessible storage.

In this one he does the goodbye loop with the AI himself, then says I love you, and asks the AI to say it back. 🤡

It’s certainly not “real” interviews. But I wonder if they’re using the platforms/AI companies actually use.

Hilarious. Chaotic. Absurd. The more I watch of it, the more irritated and sad I become, though.

I wonder how much he prepared his AI, or set them up for failure with false information for the bit.

He has more interviewed by AI videos on his channel, which are quite absurd and funny.

All my friends suddenly love playing tennis and I have to talk to the AI about it! (/s)

Broken link. Looks like you pasted the URL twice?

The interactive version of this is at https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html

It also allowed me to use text search because how else do you find the ones you are looking for? I looked in the wrong category.

Referencing current times in this way is crazy. Ignorant of ICE, surveillance, violence, and prejudice criticisms.

Billboards are not the only thing projecting an image.

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I have been playing assassin’s creed Valhalla, which I won. It’s 80% cutscenes, transitions, and traversal. I find it incredibly irritating, disconnected, and boring.

There’s security and possible support implications, and a general concept of reducing data use and storage, but I don’t see why they should take precedence for something like this.

Overall, yes, it can’t be significantly more than a few database records sitting around. The avatar image is probably more data than the rest of the account metadata.

it seems to me that he is almost admitting that he wiped the phone intentionally,

Seems like he’s trying to change the system, to do a public good, rather than only escape his conviction.

I appreciate that they challenge the system, even if it’s not individually advisable and at significant personal risk.

You call them anti imperialist while cheering for imperialist states.

What do you think is bullshit? It’s an investigation since 2010. The court document is quite extensive in their documentation.

What I didn’t like is the article title focusing on scan targets rather than successful targets. Which doesn’t seem related to govt influence.

Recent email: “get a 4k € reward”; reading beyond the teaser/bait, it’s a raffle you buy into with points, which I interpreted as you won’t win anyway, so it’s just throwing the points away.

21.3 percent disable automatic emergency braking outright

For HGVs and buses, the law changed to prevent drivers from deactivating them so they can driver closer to the vehicle in front.

Those changes were raised after crash inquiries which found some lorry drivers regularly switch off their AEB systems to drive closer to the vehicle in front. The regulation change will limit system deactivation to 15 minutes with automatic re-engagement after 15 minutes. - Wikipedia

I don’t know about their quality and false-positive rate in cars, and maybe car usage is simply different, but I’m sure automatic emergency braking prevents many accidents.

A security advisor at work recommends migrating to SaaS so we don’t have to manage any of the infrastructure. This makes me wonder.

These topics often get “why is it even connected to the internet” comments. This makes me wonder if they’re buying a “complete system solution” where it’s not an operator decision but a manufacturer decision, and maybe even reasonable in regards to generally being accessible and manageable, with critical systems separated within the whole-bundle system. But often, the necessary safeguards and system separation are not in place anyway. Offloading responsibility doesn’t mean it gets done well, unfortunately.

FAQ says

Jack Dorsey doesn’t own Divine, although he has provided funding through a grant from And Other Stuff (AOS). He holds no equity and has no ownership. He supports projects like Divine to advance open protocols without VC-led, extractive business models.

I guess it was important enough to point out.

(just quoting for context; I can’t say anything about the claim)