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GitHub's take on age assurance for developers
- OutOfHere 5mo agoThe day GitHub requires me to provide an ID is the day I quit GitHub.
- Animats 5mo agoMaybe age assurance should be in the display. The display's camera has to verify the age of the viewer to display adult content. That might be simpler. Estimating age with a camera is already common in China. Cameras are cheap, and displays now probably have enough processing power to do it locally. Will work for TVs, too.
- rjsw 5mo agoKids have already found that drawing a false mustache on themself works to defeat age checks using a camera.
- fc417fc802 5mo agoYour comment is constructive but I think it would be difficult for me to disagree more. Perhaps we should stop having a moral panic and realize that a few bad actors are pushing these laws in an attempt to dodge responsibility. Let's instead ban automated advertising targeted at an individual level as well as black box personalized "engagement" (ie outrage) algorithms. It would probably also be a good idea to find a way to ban gambling mechanics in games because if we recognize casinos as vices that lead to widespread social dysfunction and that children have no business whatsoever interacting with them then it follows that gacha games are very clearly an end run around the spirit of the law.
- iririririr 5mo agoWhy don't you teach your children instead? Seems to have worked well for the last millennia. Or did you have a guard posted at every door at your home?
- marcus_holmes 5mo agoAgain, the point of this legislation is not about protecting children. It's about ending anonymity on the web. Any solution that cannot be evolved into "we must know who you are before you can access the web" will fail at the gate.
- Animats 5mo agoThis is an alternative to use as a talking point against that.
- account42 5mo agoYes of course, let's add a government mandated camera to every display that won't be abused at all. And of course this will also need the display connection and the rest of the PC DRM'd to hell so can't trivially spoof any of this.
- Animats 5mo ago> And of course this will also need the display connection and the rest of the PC DRM'd to hell so can't trivially spoof any of this. That's already in place. That's how High Definition Content Protection (HDCP) works - DRM in the display.
- widforss 5mo agoWhen they write "GitHub", I guess they mean "Microsoft"? Maybe this is the hero we deserve, but it's not the hero we need.
- iririririr 5mo agoThere's a war for digital ID. The most costly part of Identification is the last mile. Paying the employee/cop/etc who asks for your ID and check it. With digital IDs, there's several players fighting to consume that cost as profit. Microsoft is a huge player. It is the sole reason windows11 requires a TPM device, so that your windows11 device can be used for identity attestation like an iphone can. (I mean, I don't buy that device bound keys are a valid solution, but i'm not the one being fooled in governments around the world to buy this up) So, no, microsoft will definitely not by the hero of anything here.
- zingababba 5mo agoRight, GitHub of old is long gone.
- nchmy 5mo agoCan someone please ELI5?
- rjsw 5mo agoGo and play outside.
- jchw 5mo agoSorry, but due to age assurance laws we can no longer provide ELI5 explanations. Best we can do is explain it to you like it's your 18th birthday.
- widforss 5mo agoHAPPY BIRTHDAY! :D
- fallpeak 5mo agoAFAICT they're basically saying "hey lawmakers we're not going to rock the boat or take a stand so in exchange pretty please don't lump us into the app store category"
- cantalopes 5mo ago"Policymakers around the world are advancing age assurance proposals to protect children and teens online." Noone is doing this in order to "protect children"
- WhyNotHugo 5mo agoI find it a bit embarrassing that this kind of propaganda is in the first page without any form of disclaimer.
- pmg101 5mo agoAre you saying that the proposals will not protect children? Or that they may protect children, and that is being presented as the rationale behind such proposals, but that is not the real underlying reason?
- 0x69420 5mo agofinding it increasingly difficult to summon any optimism with respect to this stuff. opposing policy, proponents of which can fall back on "think of the children", is an uphill battle with both hands tied behind your back. the way things are going, someone born today, by the time they reach my age, simply won't have been able to get in touch with 90% of interests i value and give my life meaning. back in my time as an (inadvisably) precociously online kid, the only real age barrier was having a credit card, so i had to beg/borrow/steal my way to someone on irc giving me a shell to a vps, and pay some other rando with a steam gift card to buy a domain then transfer it to my registrar account. and like that, i could start developing a presence in whatever online communities i insinuated myself into by acting mature enough nobody gave my age a second thought. physical realities like divorce and school troubles came and went, but moving and shaking online gave me my most steadfast friends and s/o to this day. shift the timeframe a couple decades and i would have instead been gated by an id upload. bleak.
- TZubiri 5mo agoYou know that thing where someone is dying and they tell you about these plans they have, and you both know deep down that they are dying, but you let them talk as if they weren't?