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by big85 4mo ago
Quite right. Around 2 million UK adults don't have photo ID, mostly concentrated among poorer and less educated people, and many of those have difficulty getting credit card for the same reason. The UK is violating their basic ECHR rig
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by big85 4mo ago
Ah, but there are plenty of folk etymologies which, although they make a lot of logical sense, aren't true.
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by big85 4mo ago
(For what it's worth, I don't get that sense.)
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by big85 4mo ago
> On-device nudity detection relies on machine-learning models that lean on the dedicated silicon built into recent phones, and older devices lack the neural processing and memory to run that kind of model without wrecking battery life a
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by big85 4mo ago
I hear the CPU fan spins up when you hit the Start menu now.
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by big85 4mo ago
We have a solution for that: parental controls. The new feature is that parental controls are enabled by default and cannot be disabled without the phone manufacturer's consent. The upcoming feature is that this also applies to non-a
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by big85 4mo ago
> YouTube has angered MPs and peers by bombarding them with adverts that suggest it is up to parents rather than tech companies to restrict teenagers’ screen time. On a daily basis they've got a new idea to mess with our devices. Wi
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by big85 4mo ago
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is about this idea. Set during the Cold War, the theory is that no human will choose nuclear retaliation if attacked, since it means mutual annihilation. However, American nuclear doctrine at the time assume
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by big85 4mo ago
Parental Controls don't bother me. What bothers me is that they should be enabled on my own device against my wishes!
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by big85 4mo ago
No, it's much worse than you suggest. Quoting the government: > The government therefore wants Apple and Google to block nudity across the whole device by default, so they can only be deactivated via age assurance. All smartphones a
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by big85 4mo ago
No, not in the UK. XKEYSCORE surveillance tools are used without a warrant signed by a judge (the police grant themselves "warrants" covering unlimited uses for a period pending renewal, which I would have assumed constituted a &q
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by big85 4mo ago
Surveillance which violates the privacy or other rights of lawful citizens is worse than crime, I argue. The criminal fears the police, but the government obeys nobody. Security cameras in public areas, I don't have a problem. Govern
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by big85 4mo ago
> it is possible to verify your age without disclosing who you are to the site you're visiting, and without disclosing what site you visited to the government. I can't believe people are really okay with a system where you have
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by big85 4mo ago
Two-factor is one thing. They're mandating client-side scanning in every operating system. This was previously rejected for obvious privacy reasons. There are already phones with an anti-nudity feature as a parental control option, but
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by big85 4mo ago
So, in this order: 1. You need a camera on your computer to allow a third party to verify your age before viewing adult content 2. It applies to social media too 3. It applies to your operating system too 4. Unless you age verify, the law d
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by big85 4mo ago
Quite. The age verification for social media may actually be worse, because the age requirement is lower, meaning they have to collect personally identifying information on minors. Many young people also don't have ID, particularly in
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by big85 4mo ago
My point is that if we make adults sites harder for adults to access, many people will turn to the unregulated black market, which is much worse. It's much closer than people think: once VPNs are banned or restricted, the next easiest
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by big85 4mo ago
You're citing Fight the New Drug, a Mormon anti-porn organization whose angle was to define pornography as an addiction to justify laws banning it as a health crisis. My point is, they operate openly and can be held accountable, as law
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by big85 4mo ago
I think it's rather that they want to de-anonymize internet users by linking all activity to one or more identifiers. An IP address only links you to a physical address, at best. Account requirements with identity verification link the
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by big85 4mo ago
If you make law-abiding sites like Pornhub hard to access, consumers will move to black markets like the Dark Web, which hosts illegal content. As the article mentions, kids are able to bypass the age verification with ease, so it doesn&#x2
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by big85 4mo ago
Russia's strategy here is to manipulate governments of the west to withdraw from mutual aid to weaken their alliance, seed anti-foreigner and pro-Nazi ideology so you can market the Big War to the Russian people as fighting their forme
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by big85 4mo ago
It seems the deleted entries mainly consisted of Protestant denominations and Pagan groups. They also removed Atheist as a specific religion, and various entries like None Provided and Unknown. Many two-letter codes were changed, which may
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by big85 4mo ago
Amiga Workbench could be used mouseless by using key combinations to move the mouse around. It was cumbersome, but just good enough to let you use the system if your mouse was broken, or you had plugged a second joystick into the mouse port
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by big85 4mo ago
> Evidence from a mystery shopping exercise included in the Commission's investigation shows that a very high percentage of the selected chargers failed basic safety tests, while a high percentage of tested baby toys posed safety ri
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by big85 5mo ago
Indeed. The alt-right pipeline preys on fears. Gamers are afraid of losing their culture to "woke" game and anime localization, women in gamer spaces, and character diversity. As Göring said at his trial at Nuremberg, "the pe
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by big85 5mo ago
A better question - how do you imagine age verification is going to protect children from being groomed? Age verification will force services to assume everyone is a child until proven otherwise. Now it will be harder to tell adults and chi
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by big85 5mo ago
> I don’t want someone else choosing how I control what my kids do. Give me tools to control it myself I agree. Parental controls have been the norm for thirty years. The adult who owns the device should have control over it, not Microso
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by big85 5mo ago
According to Wikipedia: > Most major webmail providers, including Yahoo! Mail, increased their mailbox storage in response. Yahoo! first announced 100 MB of storage for basic accounts and 2 GB of storage for premium users. However, soon
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by big85 5mo ago
I remember this. They announced it on April 1st, which naturally led everyone to suspect it was an April Fools. The idea that they would offer one gigabyte of storage on a free email service, when competitors offered more like 25 MB, seemed
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by big85 5mo ago
The video opens on a floppy disk that says Amiga, but the second notch indicates that it's a high density disk, not a double density disk as was common on the Amiga. Boy, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder! I can attest that Mu

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