> ...nor do they provide a way to send encrypted mail to their users' accounts without using their official apps.

I'm confused by this complaint. Sending encrypted mail is the job of the sender. You can PGP encrypt your mail and send it to a Proton user just like any other recipient. I've done this at work when I need to send myself paystubs.

If it's really that difficult for parents to engage their children and parent them, maybe that says more about a society that doesn't prepare parents for parenthood than it does about those who don't have children.

There is no "good parenting" fix that will keep children from trying to access inappropriate content, forums where unhealthy conversation takes place, pornography, and worse. Being a good parent does not and cannot remove the curiosity, temptation, and ability to access bad content. This is a problem with the human condition, not bad parenting.

As a parent myself (and, I hope, a good one), I have found it very difficult to effectively monitor and limit my children's ability to access these things. And I have more facility with technology than the average parent. It's a complex and frustrating problem and the stakes are high.

> This take is really detached from reality, I get down voted for this whenever I ask, but do you have kids? If not sorry, but your opinion means nothing.

The reason you get down voted is likely because you are neither sorry nor correct. Just because someone doesn't have children does not mean their opinion of technology that affects them just the same is invalid. You will get better results engaging others in meaningful debate without dehumanizing folks simply because they aren't like you.

> Credit card transactions cannot check for name or billing a part from the zip code.

This is not true. Name and address verification is common.

https://corporate.visa.com/en/solutions/acceptance/verificat...

In the US, CA the name is not validated. My company is credit card issuer and authorizer, and we don't do any validation a part from CVC. Maybe some countries/iisuers do the name validation, but is not not common at all.

I used Free Fill Fillable Forms last year for both federal and state. I honestly don't know why I didn't try them sooner. It sounds daunting, filling out your own returns, but it was quite painless for my situation.

combined with excel1040 this is the way to go imho

I don't know why this was flagged. It may be wrong, but I think it worth discussing to correct.

Not all of Federal law supersedes state law. The Tenth Amendment clarifies:

> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

If it's not given to the federal government to regulate, the federal government can't regulate it.

It hasn't been flagged.

But, isn't intercepting communications using a fake cell tower a wiretap?

We're far beyond the point of them caring about the laws. Judges are granting temporary residency to immigrants in court proceedings, and then those same people are detained and deported by ICE as soon as they walk out of the courtroom.

Are you familiar with the concept of parallel construction?

If evidence of the wiretap never needs to be entered into the official record, did it really exist in the first place?

>But, isn't intercepting communications using a fake cell tower a wiretap?

The article doesn't actually mention what ICE is actually using the cell site simulators for. It's possible that they're only collecting IMSIs and not text/voice traffic, which might still be wiretapping, but it'd be more difficult to argue in front of a judge.

I wonder if there's an argument that mobile phones are using publicly-owned broadcast spectrum, and therefore, like when walking around in public, there isn't an expectation of privacy. Ham radio rules for example prohibit encryption because they are using public airwaves.

It used to be possible to just set up an analog receiver and you could listen to nearby cell phone calls.

I actually find that a decent argument, but I believe it’s already been shut down. When police used thermal imaging to “observe” a house, without doing anything they thought required a warrant, the Supreme Court decided it was too intrusive ( https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/533/27/#tab-opin... ). But if I understand the ruling correctly, if the police make it well-known that they have the ability to do something intrusive, then they don’t need a warrant.

Intercepting cell phone communications is restricted by law. This was enacted when public officials had their clear AMPS phone calls recorded with legally owned passive radios.

Of course it is. But good luck proving how they got the information.

Assuming there is even a venue where evidence would be provided for the purpose of being looked at

Gmail regularly lets through spam, including backscatter spam from mail sent to the google.com domain spoofing Gmail users. Industry-leading is not the term I would use to describe their spam heuristics.

Grey listing has been far more effective at stopping spam than some half-baked AI garbage from Google.

Not ideal - can't disagree. Still, it's the industry leader. I'm not aware of a better spamfilter.

Grey listing doesn't scale; not for me.

I forward everything including spam to Fastmail. Their spam filter is absolutely fine. This way I don't need to check for false positives in 2 places. You're probably losing one genuine message a year if you don't check your Gmail spam folder.

Hmm. Not really. I run greylisting on my personal domain which is extremely low traffic and lately I'm getting like 4-5 spams per day that obey it correctly.

Which is more than the non spam emails that come on it :)

I remember the days when things didn't arrive immediately. I miss them. We were more patient back then.

There have been places that host personal and hobby websites for free for at least the last 30 years. Some older ones have left, and newer ones keep coming along. Cloudflare didn't make this any more accessible.

but most of them are dogshit tho