NarrativeBear
@NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 6 comments
- Comment on Woke 1 week ago:
- Comment on Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure 1 week ago:
This is not a “age check”, it’s a identity verification.
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 1 week ago:
Wait so the “original” was targeted at children specifically?
- Comment on Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying 1 week ago:
I guess I am on the “watch list” as my company uses multiple different VPN solutions so I can access work files cross offices and remotely when in the field.
Also, what about personal home VPNs where I want to route all my device traffic back to my home when I am out of the house like at a cafe/mall/airport?
- Comment on There's nothing stopping an 8 year old child from just taking their parent's ID to do Age Verification... 2 weeks ago:
If a website requires a photo of a person ID or something like a drivers license, this is not “age verification”, it’s “identity verification”.
That leads down a whole other rabbit hole of being tracked online.
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 2 weeks ago:
Older tech can generally be more privacy respecting, a old VCR for example won’t collect analytics on you.
- Comment on Live image of Trump negotiations with Iran 2 weeks ago:
“You’re not holding any cards” “War is not a game”
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 2 weeks ago:
Don’t plug in a Ethernet cord, and don’t connect it to Wifi.
Now you have a fully functional TV screen that wont be artificially bricked with OS updates.
Get a dedicated “streaming device” like a Nvidia Sheild, Android TV, Apple TV, or Roku and you are good to go.
- Comment on OpenAl: *decides to shut down their Al slop video generating model Sora*. Everyone else: 2 weeks ago:
Not sora its gone
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 2 weeks ago:
No thanks, not the distro I will be using.
- Comment on OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform 2 weeks ago:
Not sora its gone
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- Comment on Is there a way I can "hide" money with a program like paypal or something legit? I was planning on getting my family all jerseys on their birthdays. But didn't want to show a huge cash withdraw to do 2 weeks ago:
This is how a proper grown up adult would handle this situation.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 67 comments
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- Comment on What a nice blue and black dress. 2 weeks ago:
The black part is gold, the blue part is white. The wiki image is the original and its easier (at least to me) to jump between the two different colour combinations.
It help to look at the edge of the sleeve on the left, without focusing on the rest of the dress its self. This causes the colours to swap back and forth for me.
- Comment on Is it impolite to crosspost someone else's post to another community on Lemmy without saying anything? 2 weeks ago:
“You should always credit the source.
-kboos1”
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- [Greg Clark]
- Comment on Apple quietly launches AirPods Max 2 3 weeks ago:
I was not sure at first what kind of new sex toy I was looking at, but fancy urinals definitely is a winner.
- Comment on Still hoping this look comes back. 3 weeks ago:
Be the change you want to see!
- Comment on HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules 3 weeks ago:
Only? What about all the other right to repair and freedom of choice laws?
Imagine bricking a car because it filled up at a competitive brands gas station.
Honey I am going to do fill up the Honda and the Honda station!
- Comment on Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check 3 weeks ago:
I have posted this a few times before.
Somehow everyone has forgotten about parental controls that have been apart of consumer grade home routers for years.
Parental controls are there specifically to help parents. These settings allow a parent to block everything online only allowing access to “approved lists” of websites, generaly done through a “whitelist” of approved websites.
What is missing at a government level is a “curation effort” of websites, similar to Libraries that classify books by genres and appropriate age levels.
I would propose a government fund where Librarians or similar organizations can start this effort, and make these lists easily accessible within routers for non tech individuals, together with local initiatives and programs for parents that have a interest to learn more.
For power users, lists like these already exists curated by public individuals very similar to pihole block lists and whitelists.
This concept would be the most privacy respectful IMO giving parents the most power to parent, while respecting everyone else’s privacy online including children.
But we all know this is not about “protecting the children”, but really about mass surveillance for the public at all age groups, and yet this topic keeps coming up.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on No gas? 4 weeks ago:
You sir are the roll model I strive to be
- Comment on No gas? 4 weeks ago:
Basic marketing 101, if you can get people to talk about your product, you have succeeded.
There was a marketing campaigns for mittens versus gloves a while back, but the marketing team “mixed up” the terms (more then likely in purpose). This got everyone talking and debating.
The more recent one is the Big Arch burger.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 weeks ago:
Does this mean places like Walmart and Costco that sell games and media also need to now get licensing?
What about smaller shops and libraries that sell or loan media or other products.
Honestly this just seems like a tax on a tax on a tax. Next in the consumer will need to pay a licensing fee.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 4 weeks ago:
Next in convenience store owners and employees need to get a music license for selling CDs and DVDs so the public.
- Comment on US state laws push age checks into the operating system 4 weeks ago:
The US has become China 🇨🇳
