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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, I’m imagining it as a service set up to be used if wanted/needed with no broad mandate. There are people running NSFW sites and channels that genuinely do not want minors interacting or accessing, and many would integrate this type of verification voluntarily if there was trust that it worked correctly and did not collect and distribute data about individuals. But I agree, that’s not what is on offer. So far from the UK it seems like they are letting private businesses figure it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And that kinda sucks, because that could actually be useful. For instance, you could set up a forum for people above the age of 40 or whatever while still letting everyone post pseudonymousy. A third party public service that can blindly attest that a person is over a certain age could be a great and convenient thing. It’s difficult to imagine such a thing happening, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Illegal content is already illegal.

  I think it actually is more complicated. There are anti obscenity laws in the United States where these companies (Steam and Itch.io, but also Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Paypal) are based. The way those laws have been applied have been mostly permissive in the recent past, but I think there’s reason to believe that this could change quickly. We may find ourselves in a situation where the highest court decides that this has all been illegal this whole time. Procedural and legal norms are feeling a bit shaky these days. People, including myself, wonder why payment processors would bend over backwards on behalf of some group of weirdos, but maybe being on their good side isn’t the concern at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't have good public transportation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aircraft carriers don’t let me travel to my destinations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not develop their own hardware, but contract an established manufacturer to do it for them. Which is good, they have no business doing hardware!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA is full of shit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And/or Intel. (I can dream, right?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ross is not my dad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s about 1 standard stint in rehab where I’m from

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a vexingly pedantic point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its what made me buy a pixel phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A Pretty Big Company? I think they are beyond that classification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only drink Brawndo, so I’m good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clair Obscur is running more smoothly for me on Linux than Windows. That doesn’t always happen, but it’s always satisfying when it does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistance is futile⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like my Epson perfection scanner, it let’s me scan my photographic film. That’s kinda the opposite of a printer though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you noticed that every other reddit alternative turned into right wing parapolitical forums? That’s so much worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet I could. 😎