sunbeam60
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- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 2 days ago:
Ultimately someone has to vouch for “yes, this person is 18+”. People can’t self-attest, except through crappy biometric, so at some point a government ID has to be involved.
I’d trust my government over a credit reference agency that literally makes revenue from selling access to your private data.
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 2 days ago:
- Comment on Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps. 3 days ago:
What if I told you that’ by regulation, the EU age verification system has to be anonymous and that it’s only the AUKUS countries that are moving forward in a way where anonymity is “a nice to have”.
Denmark’s system, which is a front-runner implementation in the EU, is going to be fully ZKP.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what we’re arguing about now, but I’m convinced it’s not the original point I was trying to make. I think both of our lives are too short to carry this one. Have a good evening.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 1 week ago:
Volunteer adoption of a system found to be better by distro maintainers is not the same as forced adoption of a system distro maintainers don’t find to be better.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 1 week ago:
But this proposal for a full auto-chain isn’t a proposal by Linus and many thousands contributors. It’s the proposal of a commercial entity that doesn’t control Linux in any way.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 1 week ago:
It’s Linux. In what world do you imagine there wouldn’t be 87 forks that went in a different direction.
Linux cannot be controlled, at least as it stands today.
When Linux disappears I have some fears. But jerk as he may be, he’s also incredibly effective at keeping it open.
- Comment on The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions. 2 weeks ago:
Good friend of mine was high up in the advertisement industry. Think Mad Men today.
He is utterly disillusioned by what his industry is advertising, how it works, what it does and who does it. They all know they’re just making the merry go round spin faster and faster towards catastrophe.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
It’s from everywhere tbh. But the EU is certainly the largest, most forceful block in getting age verification pushed through.
The only upside is that the EU proposal demands ZKP, whereas all others are happy to accept/prefer “prove who you are”. That’s obviously an insane privacy nightmare.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
Making you aware that the age requirement probably comes from the EU. Seeking another EU based solution might introduce the same requirement.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Cries in European.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The EU doesn’t have laws. It has directives and regulation. These are converted into law by member states.
The EU doesn’t have any regulation or directives about the inadmissibility of evidence; that is a national concern. The only area the EU has directives for regarding evidence is the cross-border admissibility of evidence from one country being accepted in another.
This is technically correct, the best kind of correct.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
“Oh you’re Danish! You should meet my friend Geert Van den Berg, he’s also from Dutchland!”
If I had a penny for every time, I’d have at least three fiddy.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 3 weeks ago:
You can read more about lock down mode here: support.apple.com/en-gb/105120
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 3 weeks ago:
Big claims require big proof. But I bet all you have is a hunch.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been in software my whole life.
My two oldest daughters are pursuing performing arts and I’m backing them all the way.
And it’s not that software/STEM jobs will disappear completely but clearly there’ll be less of them.
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 4 weeks ago:
“Well, you see, I was in fact in the process of resuscitating this female, as she had feinted after getting off from a sofa in a rather fun party game. The skill of resuscitation is, of course, something I picked up while being a WAR HERO!! in the Falklands WAR”
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 4 weeks ago:
But to be fair, not being able to sweat and having perfect Pizza Express date recall are pretty sweet buffs.
- Comment on Epstein files photos appear to show Andrew on all fours over female 4 weeks ago:
If Andrew Mountwhatshisface decides to sue the BBC, claiming the pictures are AI generated or something, or done by an imposter, then “appears to” shields the BBC against lawsuit and political fallout.
The BBC are treading on eggshells here, being publically funded and with the oncoming majority in parliament being ready to privatise the lot (shudder!).
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 4 weeks ago:
Did you definitely take your meds this morning?
- Comment on This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry 4 weeks ago:
Work often issues work phones. They’re likely to be quite swayed by something focused on communication.
- Comment on Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes 5 weeks ago:
I hope this forces an Affinity build for Linux.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 month ago:
As someone with a 20 year old Reddit account, I have to say I agree. The character of Reddit did change noticeably when digg users came over. And that’s fine. But it definitely happened.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
Set up your own emergency grid. I’ve got a couple solar powered nodes around so I can contact my wife even from the villages that aren’t in mobile coverage.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 month ago:
You’d be surprised.
- Comment on Taiwan chipmaker TSMC begins 2nm chip volume production 1 month ago:
Isn’t this all marketing mumbo jumbo by now?
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
Yes I know what’s on a SIM card. But if it’s physical I can move it to another phone in a flash. With an eSIM I had to ask pretty please of the phone companies.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
I can move my phone number to another phone in 2 minutes without involving the phone company. The same is definitely not true with an eSIM.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 1 month ago:
In a world of corporate control over everything, I’ll take my globally defined, physical interface standard thank you.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 month ago:
The way the old Norse gods intended it to!