Yea compression can really squash a mix. YouTube also did a stunt with that default on, made lots of music youtube channels sound horrible. Turned that shit of right away.

It's compression. (As in audio processing not data storage) Loudness is a perception thing. Pure decibels don't tell the whole story about how your mind perceive audio.

It's the same principle as the "loudness wars" in music.

Audio equipment still has upper limits, but music is produced to sound louder.

This is also why modern standards of measuring loudness is more complex.

But in the end this is sort of just being pedantic. Yes commercials make their stuff sound really loud and will always push up against what ever limit you put on it.

Movies and TV shows care more about quality of audio and dynamic range (that's is sort of the issue made funny in the comic above, when your equipment is unable to create audio clarity at the full dynamic range something is made for)

Actually quite a few TVs, soundbars, and audio receivers have a "night mode or quiet mode" that will compress or limit the dynamic range of what you are watching to avoid this scenario

(Yes I know... I'm ruining a perfectly good funny comic :P )

I'm guessing they want to bring the Thorn(?) in to common use?

Its usually mostly used as a phonetic symbol for the "th" sound.

If there ever was a sign that you probably need a union... This is it.

You are tempted to just go up to them and say "no keep honking, it will probably scare engine to start again"

Correction: to make sure the only bots/manipulation of views etc are the bots they control.

💩 No one expects the enshittification! 💩

Yes. He ordered one, expecting to be scammed and to make a video about it.

Now he has made a video about the exposed data.

To be fair, some people have less reason to trust their government with their data, then others.

There are varying degrees of trust in authorities in the world.

For nations with high confidence and trust in the authorities, this feels like a no-brainer.

Eu is working on a digital wallet that would (among other things) help with this.

Afaik It has a tiered information/identity structure, where the lowest level is: "is this a human being" (as an alternative to captcha)

Then you could have age. (Just "is this person above %age") Response would be just yes/no

Then spesific age, nationality etc etc.

You get the prompt, where it says what data they are asking for and you can concent or decline.

The source of authority would be the nation you are a citizen of, the origin of data would be obscured through EU proxies, and data would only be transferred if you approve the transaction from your app.

It's a pretty big and ambitious project and could eventually lead to a lot easier transfer of sensitive data, where you are in control of who gets what and less need to store local copies of sensitive data. (An example usecase is for instance confirming a prescription to a drug for a pharmacy while traveling abroad).

Biggest risk as i see is people confirming data request without scrutiny. There needs to be mechanisms to aggressively revoke the ability to ask for data if abused. And I would assume the requirements to what org can ask for high tier data are really strict.

Going to be interesting to see what comes of it.

I've edited my response to include some of the reason some countries require the Hotels to identify their guests.

It can also be a liability/insurance requirement in case of fires or other accidents.

Many countries have several mechanisms to have a certain control of the movement of foreign nationals within their borders. Especially if they have problems with unofficial immigration.

I might not agree with all of the mentioned rationales, but at least a few I can understand why someone, somewhere considers it a "good idea"

Lastly if you are asking how you would deal with getting new credentials. There would be a mechanism similar to when you first get the electronic id where your previous device gets deauthorized and you authorize a new one.

All of these are allready solved problems at this point. We do this all the time with other credentials like online banking etc.

This varies by country, but in Norway for instance all of these things are already solved and online/phone banking is both safe and the most common way of doing things.

Loss/theft of phone is at worse a few phone calls and security questions to get it deauthorized (a properly secured phone would not be any significant hazard as mentioned in other responses) and authorizing a new device can be done with mail/SMS combo identification pr by showing up to a local office if you wanna do it that way.