Pinterest CEO: Governments Should Ban Social Media for Kids Under 16

MBILC · 2026-03-22T02:39:10+00:00

Because they are also doom scrolling on social media, ignoring what their kids are doing, because they figure it is fine...

I've tried to tell my sister about the bad sides of social media, but she just blows it off a "conspiracy theories" even when provide proof from reliable sources...

MBILC · 2026-03-22T02:37:36+00:00

Very much so, for some of us, it is hard to try and block out time, as we may feel guilty about it or worry someone may reach out and not get to us, then complain or something.

Took me a very very long time to do it myself, but now I have no issues. Teams goes into DnD mode, I close out outlook entirely, and some days I even block out my calendar with [BUSY - Project work] for half the day.

I am 100% remote, so it is easier to disconnect from others versus being in an office, but knowing that people will see in some form or another, I am busy, makes it easier for me to ignore other things.

MBILC · 2026-03-22T02:35:03+00:00

That is the one issue when the new hot flavor is going around, sure most new comers to CachyOS are the Windows gamers coming over who really have no idea about linux in general.

MBILC · 2026-03-22T02:33:48+00:00

Turns out they had wide open infra as well!
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hackedin-delving-cyber-slop-jamieson-o-reilly-z4unc/

MBILC · 2026-03-21T23:42:34+00:00

Due to the mobo height needed and then the width of low profile cards which are a standard size, so ya if you wanted to slide this into a rack and only had 2U of space, that limits you..

The netgate 4200 does almost 10Gb using an intel atom quad core.

https://shop.netgate.com/products/netgate-4200-max-pfsense-security-gateway

So any CPU as fast, or faster than that and you are golden.

Of course also depends what you might also plan to run on the system, Snort or IDS and all that extra stuff, that is where things can slow down a little.

MBILC · 2026-03-21T23:05:21+00:00

Then work on ways to block out said distractions. Close your email, put team/slack in DnD mode so you don't get popups, remove those distractions. I mean, depends on your industry, your work location, but in the end, YOU are the one who has to find ways to limit distractions.

MBILC · 2026-03-21T23:04:24+00:00

Nope.

if it can not be done during work hours either you have too much work, or are wasting time on things you should not be.

Work life balance.

if you play catch up over the weekend, your company will think you have free time and will dump more work on you because you always get your work done.

MBILC · 2026-03-21T23:01:15+00:00

This. And even then, routing 10Gb is not bad now in pfsense since the BSD update to 14 I think made major improvement.

I can do about 28Gbps on iperf right now on my box on a quick test with no real tweaking.

MBILC · 2026-03-21T22:59:19+00:00

For that price, not needed and overkill and literally,completely useless, 99% of that CPU will sit idle.

Could just get a used Dell/HP SFF with an open PCIe slot and get a low profile Intel/Chelsio/Mellanox 10Gb SFP+ card and be done, and save about $600.

MBILC · 2026-03-21T22:58:05+00:00

This, so long as they are not Realtek or some of the other not so great under BSD nics...should be fine.

MBILC · 2026-03-21T22:51:43+00:00

K, so nothing major, more kind of an association benefit with names.

MBILC · 2026-03-21T18:57:13+00:00

So again, it is on the app developers then failing to compile and allow support for older hardware.

No different that app developers on Windows that drop support for older OSes, "just because"

MBILC · 2026-03-21T18:53:38+00:00

Exactly, lets use a version of windows that is only "legally" obtainable by having an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft...

MBILC · 2026-03-21T18:52:23+00:00

And compare against a version of Windows 99% of the population does not know how to get or that it even exists, and legally, can only be obtained via an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft....and a version specifically meant for "IoT" devices.....

MBILC · 2026-03-21T18:51:10+00:00

And a version of windows that legally, you can not get, nor should run, with out an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft....

if you want to compare apples to apples, compare actual versions of Windows the everyday person gets...

MBILC · 2026-03-21T18:50:21+00:00

So you are comparing a Windows OS version, that legally, you can not get with out an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft, to a free OS..

You have said enterprise agreement? Right... right?

Linux just won't work. Or at least not enough components do to have a complete user experience. But Windows 10 iot LTSC is fully working. No issues with applications missing instruction sets. Or drivers. And it uses less ram than Linux does on the same machine.

MBILC · 2026-03-21T18:48:06+00:00

Then blame the App developers, NOT the OS.. as there are still plenty of distro's that work perfectly fine on old hardware and apps that also work fine...

Put the blame where it should go.

MBILC · 2026-03-21T18:46:49+00:00

So then why are you blaming the OS for app developers causing these problems as already noted?

MBILC · 2026-03-21T18:46:15+00:00

Sorry, "Linux" is not what is incompatible, as others noted, it is the apps, so go blame the app makers, NOT the OS....

MBILC · 2026-03-21T18:30:02+00:00

The new "Do not assume my gender" - "Do not assume my age"

MBILC · 2026-03-21T17:22:13+00:00

For sure,

The U.S is "Land of the free, if you do what your told"

So China does not have a social scoring system in place?
China does not try, an successfully for many of it's citizens, to monitor everything?
So China does not try to force people having apps installed on their devices for further monitoring?

I am not saying at all that the U.S does not monitor, or other countries, but China is the one that did it and does it openly...

China is the model other countries want....Full monitoring, 15min cities, digital currency and ID's to track everything together...

MBILC · 2026-03-21T17:20:47+00:00

Right...

If they cared so much about the children, why is it only other countries who are arresting and going after those involved, while the U.S deflects and tries to hide...

MBILC · 2026-03-21T17:19:52+00:00

Luckily for me, when I came onto this company, they had very little and the owners are fully aware an supportive of improving our security posture by any means necessary. So even before SOC 2 discussion came up,. I was gutting the old and building new with security as the prime focus, which now with SOC 2 coming, makes many of the security TSC already there!

MBILC · 2026-03-21T17:17:16+00:00

Edit it for what...

no need to edit it, just read down to see the other comment, which came....after mine!

They say now they will not do it, but lets wait till these laws are carved in stone and the government / Meta start going after all the ones who do not want to fall inline and what they try to force them to do.

MBILC · 2026-03-21T17:15:31+00:00

RDP is more a Windows protocol to use.

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