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- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 3 hours ago:
It’s time the U.S. deals with big Greenland once and for Oil.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 day ago:
That may be but without sources the this just opinion. Your opinion, OpenOffice opinion, IBM opinion etc
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 day ago:
In addition to that, with great respect to the hard working developers on LibreOffice, at least some of what seems like “unnecessary complexity” in Microsoft’s format is most likely just requirements LibreOffice isn’t solving or haven’t even encountered yet. You don’t get to Office’s size without having to deal with the most insane batshit crazy backcompat or compatibility issues.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 1 day ago:
It’s worth recognising that the eIDAS 2.0 / DSA regulation across the EU will function much the same way and lead to age gating requirements across the EU too. So if your definition of a shithole country is that it has online age-gating you might have to soon move away to something much better. Let me know if you find it.
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 1 day ago:
In the UK all pornography has to be sold in a licensed store for which you have to be 18 to enter.
Yes, obviously the internet has made that slightly anachronistic at this point, but age restrictions and having to prove your age is extremely common here.
16 to buy a lottery ticket. 18 to buy a scratch card. 16 to buy an energy drink. 18 to buy tobacco. 16 to drink a low-alcohol drink with a meal and an adult in a licensed establishment. 18 to buy a drink in a licensed established. 18 to buy alcohol to take away (“off licensed”).
Kids have to prove their age ALL THE TIME. My daughter never goes anywhere without a means of proving her age.
Why is online special?
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 3 days ago:
I totally understand that. And FWIW, I used to sit squarely in the camp that this wasn’t just foolish, it was nefarious.
But the challenge is really in how the UK has decided to implement this - zero knowledge proofs should have been a legal requirement like it is the the EU infrastructure regulation.
If there really, truly was no way to tie back proving your age to who proved their age, then surely this is a good thing? The slippery slope argument I understand but it is, at heart, at fallacy. “Well, if you start putting people in prison for murder, then pretty soon you’ll start putting people in prison for breathing”.
I’m obviously against having to prove your identity to access some content. But can I not support having to prove your age (in a fully anonymous way) without automatically saying “let’s know exactly who is accessing what and when”?
- Comment on The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit 4 days ago:
FWIW, Denmark has had this digital infrastructure in the last 10 years and it’s been the foundation of a huge transformation in terms of how people interact with the government services.
It’s also extremely privacy preserving and while Denmark is actually moving forward with an age proving infrastructure like Britain, it’s designed with zero knowledge proofs so literally no-one knows where you have proved your age.
I don’t have a problem with the infrastructure. I have a problem with how Britain designs and uses the infrastructure.