https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

It's a good analysis, but not really specific to code, the exact same ideas apply to AI-generated text, images, music, etc.

Of course, there are many .onion websites that can't be accessed through the clearnet, that's kinda the point of them.

This would actually not meet the criteria of free and open source software if it were real.

except that it really isn't, a correct accent is usually the least challenging and also least important part of learning a new language

In my country there is or was a dating website that for some time advertised with the slogan that they lose customers every day – in pairs.

me 20 years ago: how awesome would it be if all kinds of people were posting on the Internet, not just nerds like me

me in 2026: it's...not actually awesome

I think the study is this: https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/pes/38/3/article-p268.xml

This is linked to in this article about the same study https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000336466/warum-bildschirmzeit-das-gehirn-von-kindern-sogar-foerdern-kann but as that is in German, I obviously posted it only to communities in German, not here.

A header that says “user is under 18, no nsfw content” should generally be fine and should be sufficient, or websites could report a tag list like “tag: 18+ reason: explicit nudity” for the client to filter.

Voluntarily, not mandated by the government; and then without actual verification requirements.

No. Stop being constructive about this. There should not be age verification on the Internet, at all, period, no compromises whatsoever. People who want it to exist do not deserve that anyone work constructively with them, they deserve only complete and fundamental opposition.

That has a name: narcissism of small differences.

Also relevant: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/

mentioned in the article:

An analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the advocacy organization Unchained At Last estimated that roughly 35,000 minors were married in California between 2000 and 2021, with the vast majority of those cases involving underage girls wed to adult men, the same report notes.