Agreed, but without showing it, it would be extremely confusing to the audience. After watching the extended scene, it would have been really bad if they left that all in. Plus the scene is funny with the eddie van halen tape, and also uses the contents of Doc’s luggage with the hair dryer for another gag.

I watched the broadcast TV show leading up to the movie, and the behind the scene of how they pulled off Museum Heist was one of the best things I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait to watch the movie.

FWIW, Brave still supports manifest v2 and the full version of uBlock Origin. Chrome has uBO Lite since they only have manifest v3 now. Firefox and LibreWolf don’t have to deal with this, and still support the real uBlock Origin. I’m not sure what exactly Brave “shield” is doing, but I think if you use EFF’s privacy badger on Firefox and block third party cookies, you are getting the same thing.

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Thank you, not sure why OP didn’t cross-post the original post here?

This is how the scene was in the final cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHZctSnNrsw

Well the author is cited as AFP and had many articles posted today, so seems like it’s this newswire service? This seems like it’s written as a transcript for a segment on NPR. It could be that if it was written by an AI, that it was trained on those transcripts from news segments? Also possibly this was an actual audio segment and that was lost as it was posted to this news website. If you read transcripts of segments that aired on NPR, they feel the same way. It makes more sense when you hear the segment and the multiple speakers and interviews, but without that context, it reads oddly.

Some more info on the hack and impact: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker/

Their employees had Intune running on their personal phones and computers which got wiped. Great reminder to never mix work and personal devices.

NEVER EVER INSTALL INTUNE ON YOUR PERSONAL DEVICE!!!

A bunch of people today had their phones wiped and eSIM deleted from their personal phones because they hooked it up to their corporate intune, which got hacked: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker/

Assuming the Grandpa watches Fox News / OAN / Newsmax, they’ve sold him the lie that immigrants are taking their jobs and going to ruin the middle class, meanwhile it’s they who are having the middle class vote against their interests, gutting healthcare, breaking up families, dissuading workers to unionize, etc. Basically this politically cartoon:

You’ll probably get a kick out of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-VHe_4GmE

But why create a system which inconveniences everyone, introduces privacy leakage, and which would be inadequate to curb the problem? Sure the comparison with booze and cigarettes at point of sale sounds like it accomplishes the same thing to restrict access to adults, but one kid buying a six pack with a fake ID can only share it with a few friends, and if they try to buy multiple kegs for a party with the whole school, there’s is probably some more scrutiny, and of course the cost, which makes it unlikely. Compare this to a code which could be texted to an entire class the moment someone gets their hand on one.

And from an implementation side, if platforms and services exist which don’t comply with the law, for example 4chan [https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/investigation-into-4chan-and-its-compliance-with-duties-to-protect-its-users-from-illegal-content], then implementing these restrictions will just push kids to the unregulated platforms. It’ll have the unintended outcomes, and take away the controls from the parents, which will do more harm than good.

Alcohol / tobacco / firearms can’t be digitally shared or reproduced. Imagine a high school with a mix of 14 - 18 year olds. If an 18 year old can get a valid code without hassle, they can share it with their friends who are in the same class, but are still 17. Or maybe they’ll share it with a sibling who is 16. What’s to stop it spreading from there? It will probably take just an hour for half of the school to get access to the one code. If the system assumes that kids won’t directly or indirectly share their codes with one another, then the system doesn’t understand teenage behavior and is flawed.

Agreed, and for every site which would comply with these rules, there are 10-100 which won’t and are not able to be controlled in the jurisdiction. Teenagers will find a way to get around restrictions, and will go to sites which are less regulated, and possibly not have the controls in place to flag grooming interactions, promoting self harm, etc.

Were you ever a teenager? This would be abused immediately, unless the codes were single use, and in that case it’s a non-starter.

This is the way. I think this is what Apple is finally implementing, but since they took too long to do so, governments have been passing laws which require privacy invasive measures that fill the void. Hard to say if that will reverse itself now that there’s a whole age-verification industry that popped up. Actually it’s unclear to me if the age-verification industry manufactured a problem to push their solution?

Had Apple implemented this in their Parental Controls setting, it would have avoided the government intervention and shady age-verification companies from popping up.

In addition to letting the website owner know about the issue, I would reach out to Troy Hunt with your evidence, so the data can be loaded into Have I Been Pwned and the affected people notified.

That seems like a broad generalization, and for specialized software that requires newer hardware, you’d expect to find the rate of bitflips crashes much lower than 10%. You could argue that since Firefox is supported on older operating systems, longer than the support lifetime of the OS ^[1], it’s likely Firefox is being used specifically to get the last bit of life out of the hardware before it gets trashed.

And someone in leadership who isn’t about to die of natural causes.

Fringe is worth it for the White Tulip episode alone. For me that was when the series changed from a monster of the week series to actual art.