undrwater
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- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 5 hours ago:
Semantics, no? Side loading is an alternate way of installing.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
When I was younger, there use to be “public service announcements” on TV that provided education for the kids and adults watching.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
Politicians are humans, just like us (with MAYBE just a larger helping of narcism). They’re also required to work within the law.
I understand the reason I’m getting down votes. We’re in a really really frustrating time. Lots of angry people (me too).
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
The underpaid clerk already sells booze and cigarettes.
The age token would be free at the time of acquisition (paid by taxes of course).
Yes, you’d get the “buy me a porn token please!” request behind the 7-11, but I’d bet it would be far less frequent than requests to buy booze.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
I agree, children shouldn’t be on tiktok or any of these kinds of platforms.
And yes, it should be social pressure rather than legal pressure.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
What I like about the convenience store idea, is that the certification process is decentralized. An app wouldn’t be.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
This is how it works in Estonia?
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
Remember that “they” (at least here in the US) are as varied in opinion as are we.
The ones who have a sincere desire to protect children want them to have limited exposure to content online.
My personal thought is children should generally not be engaging others online, but it should be a social push (“don’t talk to strangers online” “don’t allow your children to be unsupervised online” ).
As for arresting child abusers, we seem to be in the habit of putting them in high office.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
That’s an interesting idea! Provides a level of abstraction, and maintains a semblance of privacy.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 week ago:
No reason it can’t be both.
- Comment on I Bought a Linux Phone in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Cool! I’ve got the N100, and experience is similar. I’m trying to build up some motivation to use it daily for a while.
Good on you for the development work, and congrats on you accepted pull!
- Comment on An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification 2 weeks ago:
You’re right. I had the same thought about the definition of “account”.
- Comment on Is it feasible to run a TURN server behind NAT? 4 weeks ago:
This looks like a really good explanation of how all the pieces work: What Are STUN, TURN, and ICE? | LiveSwitch Server Documentation share.google/PV7BKE7Q56vOE9lHl
Based on what you wrote, it looks like you’ll need ICE hosts, but no STUN / TURN.
- Comment on You Can't Trust the Internet Anymore 4 weeks ago:
Wow. I got a few links deep.
I’ve just recently told my family that modern tech is pushing me to become a Luddite.
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 5 weeks ago:
I still have a means of booting up Windows if there’s a need (usually for a firmware flash too that doesn’t have a Linux alternative).
I was dual booting with Windows ME (which worked well for my computer). Distro hopping until I bootstrapped Gentoo from stage one.
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 5 weeks ago:
Android phone and Own tracks.
- Comment on If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting? 5 weeks ago:
I’m a social worker by background. It all started with running Linux on my desktop.
From there, the possibilities seemed endless.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 5 weeks ago:
IRC protocol is audio capable.
- Comment on Selfhosted office suite with good mobile apps/ux 1 month ago:
Have you tried the collabora app for mobile?
I think Joplin has a spreadsheet plug-in.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 2 months ago:
I believe the early Microsoft one did that well, but the popular ones (grok, chathpt, Gemini) will only when asked (in my experience).
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 2 months ago:
Can you provide an example?
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 2 months ago:
My optimism tells me this issue will be short lived. Unless someone can find a very creative way to monetize AI so that it is sustainable, it will likely crash (with local instances continuing to get development).
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 2 months ago:
It’s great! I felt the “no Wikipedia” was short sighted (UNLESS one of the teaching goals was doing research in an actual library!).
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 2 months ago:
Wikipedia is better than an encyclopedia, IMO, because the references are super easy to follow.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 2 months ago:
I spent some years in classrooms as a service provider when Wikipedia was all the rage. Most districts had a “no Wikipedia” policy, and required primary sources.
My kids just graduated high school, and they were told NOT to use LLM’s (though some of their teachers would wink). Their current college professors use LLM detection software.
AI and Wikipedia are not the same, though. Students are better off with Wikipedia as they MIGHT read the references.
Still, those students who WANT to learn will not be held back by AI.
- Comment on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life 2 months ago:
NOW we’re talking!
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 months ago:
“This sounds like a your carrier problem, not an eSIM problem.”
This is true, and we the consumer have no control of the carrier decisions. With a physical SIM, we have at least a little.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You mean…Satan?!?
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 3 months ago:
And Windows isn’t telling them. That’s part of the issue. If Cortana could tell them “this boot was slow because your video driver missed an update necessary for other system packages. Would you like me to show you how to fix that now?” that would be a win for your typical user.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 5 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance
Google doesn’t “own” Android. They (and the OHA) are the maintainers. AOSP is open source.