Nursie

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by Nursie 6mo ago
You could, you could also go to their house and go through the process for them, but in either case I don't think it's going to scale very well (rate-limiting would seem to be called for, maybe with 2FA as well, to mitigate this s
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by Nursie 6mo ago
No argument here, I'm not saying they're right to demand that age verification is brought in to protect kids, or that we should give up privacy etc etc. But coming at it from the angle that "It was never about protecting ki
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by Nursie 6mo ago
> That's why everyoneisover18.com forwards the request to my bank or my broker Doesn't work. The response won't be signed by real-broker.com. The permission request/response itself goes direct from the server at restr
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by Nursie 6mo ago
> Verification broker tracks sites which make requests and records it attached to personal data. How? What personal data? The broker doesn't get anything other than "Site X wants to verify over 18, the user selected forward to
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by Nursie 6mo ago
Restricted-site.com gets the signed response from the broker, not the bank. In your situation there's not any need for "everyoneisover18.com" to defer to a real bank for a faked response as it signs things itself. But restric
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by Nursie 6mo ago
> Any "verification" means unacceptable privacy violations. So I'm not necessarily arguing for age controls here, but purely on a technical level what do you think of schemes like Verifiable Credentials, which delegate ver
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by Nursie 6mo ago
Well for a start not all of them are very tech savvy, and we've built a world in which tech is essential to their day to day lives, including for their kids. If school demands the kids have a variety of devices to do their work, and th
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by Nursie 6mo ago
> There's no way to prove someone is some age without presenting a legal ID. Sure there is. Verifiable Credentials and other similar standards allow this to be delegated in such a way that there is no need to present ID or even let
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by Nursie 6mo ago
> The reason is that this whole push for age verification is nothing to do with actually stopping kids seeing the content. The reason that mainstream politicians are pushing is because the public wants something done to protect their kid
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by Nursie 6mo ago
> Almost no one thinks their code is copyrightable I think this is an unusual opinion. Code may not be copyrightable in as small chunks as you put there, but in terms of larger pieces I think companies and individuals very often labour u
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by Nursie 6mo ago
SVG Tiny PS (Portable Secure) is an attempt at this - https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-svg-tiny-ps-abrotman-0... Though I think it's still a draft, it does appear to be a requirement for BIMI - https:&#
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by Nursie 6mo ago
> People have free will, if they want to do something they would regret later, it's still their right. Then this minor frictional measure is the very least of your worries. For a start, any given pharmacy has an entire pharmacopoea
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by Nursie 6mo ago
The point is that many don't really want to. Those that actually want to can buy two boxes from two shops or ask the pharmacist for the big pack from behind the counter. This just adds a tiny amount of friction to impulsive attempts, w
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by Nursie 6mo ago
Interesting. I guess it tracks with personal experience. I find Paracetamol is OK for fevers/generic cold symptoms but absolutely useless for a headache, Ibuprofen is the only thing that shifts them. Well it's the only thing that
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by Nursie 6mo ago
Some of your response is disingenous. Ransomware has been around a long time, certainly, but adding cryptocurrency payrails has made it far more prevalent, those other methods are much harder and riskier to execute well. Other parts of your
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by Nursie 6mo ago
Oh right - that's probably what we did, buy a big pack from behind the counter. I don't think you can even do that in the UK. Yeah we usually have a few packs hanging around, and I get the 'it seems stupid' thing, but
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by Nursie 6mo ago
When was this changed? I arrived in Aus in 2021 and was amazed to be able to buy a pack of 40+, coming from the UK where the limit had been in place for some years.
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by Nursie 6mo ago
Crypto makes cybercrime pay, without it collection would be almost impossible. The post I'm responding to argues that it is worth it. I disagree and think it's presumptuous to claim it has anything of a net benefit for society. Th
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by Nursie 6mo ago
I see the absurdity of claiming that something (in this case absolute financial privacy) is for the benefit of everyone and worth the costs without taking into account whether the tradeoff does actually benefit everyone, or if the price is
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by Nursie 6mo ago
> I get that it is annoying that crypto facilitates cybercrime, but that is the cost of privacy for everyone. Who decided this, was 'everyone' consulted on what they'd rather have? Because it seems to me like cyber-crimina
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by Nursie 6mo ago
I had almost the opposite experience a few years ago. I (after a few beers) found myself idly wondering about an electric folk band I hadn't seen or heard of for a good ten years, and looked them up to see if they were doing a new albu
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by Nursie 6mo ago
On the one hand, I want to say that’s cynical. On the other, well, I just bought tickets to Iron Maiden’s “all the best bits” tour (who have to be getting close to retiring, one member already has) supported by Megadeth who are explicitly o
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by Nursie 6mo ago
Here in Western Australia, resale prices are capped at face-value plus 10%. IIRC the reseller platforms can still charge a fee on top, but IMHO it seems to have had the desired effect on ticket sales. Unless it's something really, real
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by Nursie 6mo ago
> I don't see why the venues and artists don't want to capture more of what people are willing to pay Because artists don't always want to extract the maximum money possible from their fanbase? Artists are not always rapac
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by Nursie 7mo ago
It won’t cause supply to go down, the same amount of Bitcoin is produced whether it’s mined by millions of ASICs or a single 2008-vintage laptop.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
There is an interesting missing link in the feedback cycle with Bitcoin though - the same amount is produced regardless, supply does not contract with demand.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Same on my K8. It’s holding down something and the light buttons. It’s a godsend, all I want is dim-ish blue lights, but I’d keep coming back to it doing rainbow patterns and flashes that I’m sure some people love but I find really distract
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by Nursie 7mo ago
It’s interesting to me that this makes it look old. Even slightly retro. Makes me think of early 2010s ultrabooks.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
The best thing about the South Bank is that you can look over the river and admire the North Bank.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
> Sam's design does feel cold, unnatural and broken, definitely not what brutalist living is about. AFAICT Sam is in the UK, and that is most British people's lived experience of Brutalist architecture in the UK. Outside of a f

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