Redex68

@Redex68@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been thinking of possible ways that you could prove you’re of legal age to access a site through a government service without the government being able to know who the user is, and I can’t really come up with a clean solution.

  The best idea that came to my mind was that you could e.g. have a challenge system where the government service challenges the user to return an encrypted randomly generated value. Each user has e.g. an AES key assigned to them that corresponds to the year they were born in, e.g. everyone born in the year 2000 has the same encryption key in ther ID card, and they just use that to return an answer to the challenge. The government website can know all of the secret keys and just check if it can unencrypt the result with the correct one. This means that the government service won’t know anything about the user other than their year of birth, but can confirm their age.

  Now two main problems are that, as everyone with the same year of birth has the same key, it could be possible to somehow leak one key and make it so that anyone can pretend to be born at that age, but considering this is for kids, exploiting that sort of problem is probably enough of a barrier to use. Another problem is that this would require you to scan your ID card with every use. Maybe you could accomplish this with a mobile app but idk if that’s possible to do in the same way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah ok that makes sense!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get the third graph, isn’t it saying that we’d need less battery capacity to flatten out the energy usage in Birmingham than in sunnier cities, how does that make sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally picked Mailfence, but I saw both runbox and mailfence are really good. Tho? Mailfence is a bit more expensive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah, jokes on them, I managed to fuck my earbuds’ microphones so they’re useless now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this new arc of pewds, unimaginably based. I’m actually interested in watching his videos now after a looong time. The last three tech related ones were great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta also recommended porkbun for a registrar, had a great experience with then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Regarding resolution, I’ve been using my S21 Ultra at FHD quality (2400x1080) since I got it and it has a significantly large screen. I don’t see a point in higher resolutions but I definitely appreciate higher refresh rates. Makes it feel smoother and more responsive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A time of flight sensor for autofocus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting that they seem to be using a consumer grade Snapdragon chip this time, typically they used weird chips ment for industry applications if I’m not mistaken. Wonder what sparked the change, did Qualcomm start supporting their chips for longer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean Waymo is way better at their job than Tesla and are more responsible, but this rant makes them out to seem perfectly safe. Whilst they are miles safer than Tesla, they still struggle with edge cases and aren’t perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Melon-chicken-Aspic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please unalive yourself in Minecraft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk man, I’ve seen hundreds of examples showcasing how they significantly reduce bot traffic. The point isn’t to make it impossible for a bot to get past it, it’s to make it so expensive per request that it’s not worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but my entire point is that it just isn’t comparable because of the insane scales we’re talking about. For example, WhatsApp has 2 billion monthly active users. Let’s say Signal had the same number and let’s say it costs them 0.5$ per user per year (probably an underestimate). That’s 1 billion dollars in yearly expenses. Wikipedia, which is one of the most successful donation based companies to my knowledge, has a yearly income of only 180 million $. I just don’t see there being enough donation capacity in the general population to sustain that high of a figure.

  GrapheneOS might be fine even with 2 bilion users with the same amount of funding as they have now, because their costs aren’t tied to their userbase. But scaling Signal to the size we’re talking about is an entirely different beast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they don’t have recurring costs that scale with their size. The whole original point of my argument was that Signal is fine now because its userbase is above averagely passionate about it and willing to donate, but if it were to become mainstream that would mean the percent of its users donating would go down whilst its cost would go up, in other words its costs would outscale its revenue. This doesn’t apply to GaprheneOS as their costs don’t scale with the number of users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean comparing it to GrapheneOS doesn’t make much sense, they don’t have recurring costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there are some who will be willing to do that, but the vast majority of average people won’t pay for something if a free version exists (like WhatsApp)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see a lot of people saying it’s time to switch to Signal, and I mean I agree in principle, it’s my main messaging app, but I don’t see how it can scale. It runs off of donations and the only reason it’s still functioning is because the users that are there are above averagely passionate about it and willing to donate. If it became the defacto messaging app I fear that there is no way they would be capable of financing that level of traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because SMS is trash, most of Europe doesn’t use iPhones and WhatsApp was one of the first messaging apps, so yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s because it’s free, easy to use, and supported by ddclient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak male form⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  #4 With that dazzle camouflage, ready for naval engagements

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Slavic engineering gone too far?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same thought, but I’m 50/50 on whether it’s an AI generated image or a shitty picture sharpened with AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[JS Required] EU unveils DNS4EU, a public DNS resolver intended as a European alternative to services like Google’s Public DNS and Cloudflare’s DNS.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t really on topic but since you mentioned it, the only way for Europe to stay relevant is if we integrate more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I think it’s a good idea. As long as it’s clearly highlighted that “this is an AI generated summary”, it could be very useful. I feel like a lot of people here have never tried to e.g. read a maths article without having a PHD in mathematics. I would often find myself trying to remember what a term means or how it works in practice, only to be met by a giant article going into extreme technical detail that I for the life of me cannot understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Material scientist wet dream⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Water Zero

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see it mention it doing anything by itself? This is just an overblown aditional context menu action from inbuilt Windows apps, nothing special. Same thing as “Open Folder in VS Code”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I guess it makes some sense. Linux Subsystem for Windows to the uninitiated might sound like it “comes from the Linux brand”, whilst Windows Subsystem for Linux sounds more like its made by Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems that Google just gave them back the permission, 2 days after they publicly complained about it and after 6 months of ignoring it. What scumbags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I higly doubt they generate a custom ad per viewer, it’s probably per show which can be re-used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Farming beans be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, kutomjer.