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What absolute creeps. Major major amplification of the war on general purpose computing. It's absurd how governments are so willing to just make demands of prod
by jauntywundrkind 8mo ago
What absolute creeps. Major major amplification of the war on general purpose computing. It's absurd how governments are so willing to just make demands of products, are so intent on being product managers making their lists of how they want the world to run.
There's just shy of 200 countries in the world. That's a lot of product managers already! But if provinces/regions/us states all decide they too can define how software has to work, we are up to thousands of little emperors all telling the world how we have to think, how we have to compute.
It's frelling disgusting.
This effort here has similar vibes to Chrome's Digital Credentials API. Which can be privacy preserving, but where site's can demand basically whatever they want. Either way, each site is returned material, that it then has to verify. So we are back to only approved identity working. And it seems unlikely credential issuers will willingly work with anything but 1st tier browsers/OSes.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/digital-credentials-api-shipped#verify_trust_in_the_issuer https://developer.chrome.com/blog/digital-credentials-api-sh...
It feels like a sure creeping doom that the internet is not going to be available in many places, except by commercial OSes that use DRM and attestation to deny users access to their own systems. This is against mankind, and imo, against every spiritual fiber that made man a great creature & arose us to what we are. To deny us a view of the world is to deny us from being toolmakers, is to mame our senses. This is an affront to our humankind. This making the machines infernal.
- wmf 8mo agoAge verification sucks but realistically this is a feature that iOS and Android already have and it's better than "upload a photo of your ID which we promise to delete but actually won't" age verification.
- GuestFAUniverse 8mo agoTrusted 3rd parties I choose myself? I trust the postal service here, more than Apple or Google. Just recently opened a bank account via their online service.
- wqaatwt 8mo agoMore friction -> less users -> lower revenue -> more companies lobbying against these policies. Seems like a good thing.
- wqaatwt 8mo ago> we are up to thousands of little emperors all telling the world how we have to think, how we have to compute Imho that’s one of the best outcomes i.e. companies which will try to comply with all of the rules will go out of business or move to a less dystopian jurisdiction. Then there will be a lot economic pressure to build networking and payment systems which allow working around all this crap. If on the order hand it’s actually streamlined and works without any friction nobody will lose their jobs/tax revenue and governments will come up with even more and even more dystopian shit.