pika

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. Thanks for the info. 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But you have to submit evidence of age to some site, right? So where does that evidence (your ID) get sent to or stored? Once it’s sent, are you sure it’s not stored? Is the token unique or traceable to you?

  I honestly don’t know, and when I don’t know, I have to assume it’s not staying private.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the system opaque? Does someone else hold the private encryption keys? Could unencrypted data leak from the company and expose users?

  If any of those answers are “yes”, then assume it’s already compromised by a government and unsafe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol omg no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When tech hardware becomes paperweights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The company is Qardio. The device is the QardioArm.

  This exact thing happened to me yesterday. I woke up, tried to use the blood pressure monitor for the first time in months, and was signed out of my account in the app with no way to log back in because the server is now offline. I went to reddit and tried their suggestions, but nothing worked.

  I looked for an open-source app that might be able to interface with the QardioArm, but no luck. It’s just junk now. I knew this was a risk when I bought it, and I did get around 4 good years out of the product, but what a damn waste.

  Make this illegal already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Points of No Return in Games - Daryl Talks Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean 24 minutes instead of hours?

  I don’t have a whole day to spare 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the iOS app store will show the top 200 paid games, and that’s it. There are a bunch of categories for games, but ‘paid’ isn’t one of them; there is no other way to see or filter just paid games. It’s always sucked and Apple has never fixed it.

  I honestly don’t know how any developer is supposed to be successful on there with a paid game, because if it’s not already in the top 200 list, most people will never be able to see it in the store without specifically searching the name.