Isn't it using Zello - a Russian made app?

Honest? Trump is the most dishonest president in history. He literally says two diametrically opposite things: - we don’t need any oil - open up the strait or else severe consequences Which is it? Only fools think his opacity is a feature not a terrible bug.

Honest in the moral corruption and the endgame of the current political system, which is the power from the many to the few to the one ultimate authoritarian messiah.

But yeah, lots of lies that emphasize the honesty of the endgame.

Age verification in the OS is one milestone of a greater objective: removing anonymity on the internet

how?

It establishes that operating systems have the necessary infrastructure to reveal information about their users in a standardized way to other systems on the internet.

Once that is established, it is easier for politicians to push for newer laws that add more features to reveal even more information. Politicians can propose any unrealistic law they want. But it is much easier for them, to convince a necessary majority, when there is technical infrastructure already in place. "We are already doing X, why don't we just also do Y?". Or: "Country A has already X, why don't we also do X?"

This forewarning is underestimated. Russia had begun it's path to Internet censorship through "think of the children" and to fight piracy. Started off as simple DNS and IP blocks, mandatory for all B2C ISPs. Now every egress international connection is being analyzed by DPI, VPNs, SSH are broken: the traffic inspection and interception (TCP RST among other things) has to be circumvented. Major messenger apps are blocked: WhatsApp, Telegram (intermittent connectivity), Viber etc. to force people to use the unencrypted local app (an FB Messenger equivalent, called "Max" by VK).

There are now plans to expand the traffic analysis systems' aggregate bandwidth to nearly 1 petabits/s (sic) by 2030 with the expected total budget of 59B Roubles (470M USD).

English Teachers: “Proper grammar is cost effective!”

Exactly. It’s a security checkpoint and auditing tool, like sudo.

They are also a barrier to entry that keeps some of the riff raff out.

Yes let's just destroy so much of what makes computers great and freedom free so we can pander to the illiterates

It’s a one time inconvenience that filters out most mid level scammers. It’s a small price to pay for a reasonably clean App Marketplace.

There are apps to assign a key combinations to any menubar dropdown menus.

You don't need an app for that, you can do it through through System Settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> App Shortcuts.

That also fails to take efficiency and cost optimization into account. Just parsing out salutations and please/thank you from AI requests reduces utilization and that’s not really even intense optimization.