Fascinating. Is there something specific about those temples that draws the crowds, like something akin to a famous cathedral? Must worship take place in a temple? I don't know how the religion works but did get to visit a local temple once with some coworkers and enjoyed the atmosphere.

Yeah each temple has its speciality.

Every family has a "kuladeivam" which is basically a temple for that (patrilineal) lineage. Every family has one. Every temple has few families.

Then it's special for people in the same town as the temple. Modern migration makes this a different set from the one above.

Then each temple has special events on specific days/week/month/year.

And then on top of that some few hundred temples are special in general and are crowded 365 days of the year with people from all over.

Adds up.

> Must worship take place in a temple?

Just my understanding. You can worship anywhere even in your head, but temples are one thing which improve "quality" of worship by a lot. The logic roughly goes - since most people aren't capable of high (enuf) quality worship in their head or at home, temples help them. More of a magnitude thing rather than a binary thing.

Thanks for the explanation. It sounds like a neat system.

Status symbols among certain tribes. I went to <x> place. Most (all?) religions don’t prevent the poor from salvation, but humans like to make up hurdles to see who can overcome them.

The status isn’t even necessarily money related, but can just be to see who is more “devoted”.

maybe they are considered direct link between heaven and earth :)

Or just switch the order if Betty is the maid and you don't want to provide additional context:

``` They went to Oregon with a cook and Betty, a maid. ```

There are quite explicit constitutional limits to his ability to be elected to a third term. Short of a mitary-style takeover, there is nothing he can do to change that (discounting the scenario of constitutional amendment).

Who would be enforcing those constitutional limits? I didn't think that a convicted felon could run for president, but here we are.

The same limits he ignored in 2021?

Isn't that more reason to go to your bank's website: to download the apk and then verify the hash of the downloaded apk before installing it? That would make me way more comfortable than the current system of "pray this app on the play store is actually my bank's".

What happens when they move from default dns to ech with pinned dns servers? I was reading about ech a bit yesterday so I could keep up with apps trying to circumvent dns filtering on my kids' devices.

Usually I require a root cert so devices can have their traffic inspected or be isolated into an unsafe network where most nonessential traffic is blocked by default. I suppose letting an iot device connect will become more risky in the future when I can't control the dns resolver or can't confidently block requests through dns alone.

It's either because the non-ad-driven tvs cost more, resulting in too few sales to sustain (because no lifetime revenue from data sales) or the lifetime revenue from data sales is so profitable that companies take the risk on being undercut by a market entrant that will sell dumb tvs.

My guess is that the vast majority of people will trade data for a cheaper price point every time (my wife is certainly one of these people), so the market just can't support the volume of sales necessary to make the price point of dumb tvs competitive.

Doesn't the act of notifying >16 today and >18 tomorrow leak birthdates?

If you want privacy you need to fuzz the transition. Many platforms support that today. Or you can create a separate account when you graduate.

But also, knowing someone's birthday without trying it to other information greatly reduces the risk of harm.

Not unless you actually meant 16<x<18 today and >18 tomorrow.

You can be 30 and verify >16 today and >18 tomorrow, obviously without being 18.

which is nothing in comparison to leaking all of personal information

you can also introduce some jitter like changing age range only once a week/month/year for everyone

Birthday, zip code and gender is enough to uniquely identify most Americans.

Of course you can still break the law. People are complaining that it's now illegal to do what you suggested

1 it requires DOB

2 it requires DOB to be accurate

Lol I remember back in the day when we used to replace the windows logo during boot with our own bitmaps (if I can appropriately remember the file format) at school. We showed kids and suddenly every computer was booting with unexpected media. Admins were not pleased.

But the real fun began when we showed people how to set bios passwords and that cascaded into kids rendering an entire classroom of computers unbootable.

And then there was the time I thought I was really clever because I realized I could open arbitrary files in notepad, so I attempted to edit save files for a learn-to-type program by replacing the score with my own. It seemed to work so I told my friends and then they started copying the same save file into their program files. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I do know the UI update did not propagate to the actual scores and also it introduced a bug into the prodgram which would cause it to crash at distant future epochs, so we destroyed the program for everyone, not just our user profiles. There was an investigation and I think they gave up because the same bad file somehow was on everyone's computer and everyone just told them they got the file from someone else and there was no root of the chain.

This is all to say, any bypass will be identified and implemented at the speed of virality.

This is where parents come into play...

Yes, they can enable the parental controls that, according to the California law, must exist in every consumer OS.

The law necessarily exists for parents that aren't tech literate, since we already have the ability to monitor and lock kids out from adult content.

Do we really think parents will notice that a kid has installed a specific executable? The purpose of this law is to allow parents to outsource caring out which executables are safe, so there is no reason they would check.

Plus a kid can just live boot from a USB if the parent doesn't lock the bios, which would give them an ephemeral session to do whatever they want without the parent knowing unless caught-in-the-act.