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by egorfine 7mo ago
> thinking they wish to pay taxes Wellll this is not always the case. I have moved from a shithole country to a nice one and oh boy I am crying in gratitude every month that I pay taxes. Because it is every day that I can see my money wo
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by egorfine 7mo ago
Compliance is something that no one ever wants and everybody hates. Not a single founder wakes up in the morning thinking to themselves: "oh I wish I could make my company XYZ-123 compliant!" Thus providing compliance is really ju
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by egorfine 7mo ago
I'm not sure Libya has any solution to prevent their citizens from purchasing my services. Blocking access to my site, sure. But preventing citizens from using my service is going to be much, much harder. So, no.
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by egorfine 7mo ago
This is an argument that the law sometimes is clearly in the wrong. > The idea that age verification in an OS is bad is a niche position by a select few I am pretty sure that's not true.
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by egorfine 7mo ago
> eventually they will stick that stuff in hardware, I'm sure That's the endgame, totally.
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by egorfine 7mo ago
> you can't sell to customers in Libya Why though? Libya has no jurisdiction over my business in the EU. I place no restrictions on who can purchase a subscription on my SaaS. I certainly can sell to customers in Libya. All Libya
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by egorfine 7mo ago
> What other benefit is there to remote attestation? There certainly are benefits and they are huge. Like, I can make sure my servers are untampered, I would love that. Problem is, that technology, once unveiled, will be inevitably used
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by egorfine 7mo ago
Yes, I was reading these comments today and I have seen this argument coming from different people multiple times. It's incredible, right?
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by egorfine 7mo ago
> The UK is setting new standards for online safety. Keyword: "The UK". > cornerstones of our laws Keyword: "our laws". > and we'll take robust enforcement action Enforcement action can only take place with
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by egorfine 7mo ago
Yes you are describing consequences that all take place in the jurisdiction where these consequences legally apply. I.e. in the UK. What Ofcom wants is for their consequences to happen extraterritorially.
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by egorfine 7mo ago
> there is no global law, and hell forbid there ever should be. There are so many global laws that are actually enforced. Of course they all origin in the US. See KYC/AML laws.
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by egorfine 7mo ago
As we can clearly see from the comment section here, Americans absolutely non-ironically believe their law applies to anyone they have business with.
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by egorfine 7mo ago
> You’re showing pictures to UK customers → you’re violating UK law
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by egorfine 7mo ago
> It's obvious US laws would apply if you're serving US customers So any customer from Libya makes it customary for my female co-workers to wear hijab at the workplace, right? Same logic. No. A customer who voluntarily purchase
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by egorfine 7mo ago
> You're serving US customers. You are doing business in the US, and therefore you are subject to US law I don't think this is how the law works. Think of it this way: any customer from Libya makes it customary for my female co
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by egorfine 7mo ago
They are sensing that Microslop is going to remove code editing capability from Visual Studio Code in favor of agentic development.
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by egorfine 7mo ago
Given that: * LP had zero objections to merging this commit into systemd [1]; * Amutable CEO is confident they have a very robust path to revenue [2]; * It is Facebook that pushes age verification laws all around the world; I sense that his
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by egorfine 7mo ago
I wonder who this https://github.com/dylanmtaylor guy is. Comes out of the blue and posts PRs into lots of open source repositories for this feature that should repulse every self-respecting human being. And not only that,
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by egorfine 7mo ago
First they have to build infrastructure for the future mandatory KYC. So, age field comes first, then comes new Poettering startup to deny you modifications of your Linux, and finally you are not allowed to use a computer unless you present
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by egorfine 7mo ago
Given the LP history I am not surprised.
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by egorfine 7mo ago
Given that: * LP had zero objections to merging this commit into systemd [1]; * Amutable CEO is confident they have a very robust path to revenue [2]; * It is Facebook that pushes age verification laws all around the world; I sense that his
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by egorfine 7mo ago
Gasing the Jews was the law as well.
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by egorfine 7mo ago
Didn't Covid take care of that?
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by egorfine 8mo ago
KYC = Kill Your Customer.
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by egorfine 8mo ago
Ahhh so that completely invalidates my hypothesis. I stand corrected.
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by egorfine 8mo ago
Can we conclude that this means the Great Firewall of russia is working and ~60% of population does not care? Update: no. Russian people who care use VPN and thus are not counted as russian traffic.
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by egorfine 8mo ago
> how it could be used against the users and device owners Same here. Can't wait to KYC myself in order to use a CPU.
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by egorfine 8mo ago
Don't give them ideas
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by egorfine 8mo ago
Did you notice that not one company who implemented KYC has answered any comment on this in HN?
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by egorfine 8mo ago
How long until it KYC at bluesky becomes a centralized requirement?

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