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by palata 6mo ago
It's worse than forcing the Play Services: strict Play Integrity requires your system to be signed by Google . So if you use the Play Services on GrapheneOS, you're still locked out.
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by palata 6mo ago
I said it already in another comment, but if you care enough to use GrapheneOS, I believe you should not only "do without it". You should also complain to those services. If enough people complain, those services will start cari
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by palata 6mo ago
> One bank refused to work (even with Google services) so I moved bank Banks are implementing terrible "security" checks. Users of alternative OSes should be a lot more vocal: change bank, but also complain a lot to the off
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by palata 6mo ago
> I don't see any requirement to support hardware attestation in the recaptcha documentation, the Play Services seem to be "enough". Doesn't Play Integrity use hardware attestation, but specifically checking the Googl
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by palata 6mo ago
> Stop visiting sites and using services that use reCAPTCHA. Problem solved. Not solved at all: 99.999% of users don't give a damn and use a Google-signed Android. My opinion is that because they don't give a damn does NOT mea
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by palata 6mo ago
> Much like age verification Age verification as a technical concept can be done in a privacy-preserving manner! Whether or not we want age verification is another debate, but let's stop making wrong technical claims about that: it
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by palata 6mo ago
> People running de-Googled phones chose those setups because they read the data practices, understood what Play Services phones home about, and decided they didn’t consent. This is wrong. Many (most?) users of alternative Android OSes d
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by palata 6mo ago
You are right, it is possible to do age verification in a privacy-preserving manner. Feels like most people being very vocal against the idea don't know about that. At least most complaints I see here are assuming that age verification
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by palata 6mo ago
It is cryptography. Just like you don't have to blindly trust Signal with end-to-end encryption (their client app is open source), it could be implemented in a way that you don't need to blindly trust your government.
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by palata 6mo ago
> Children have always found ways to access age restricted consumables Doesn't mean that it's equivalent to giving them free access to those consumables. > But you know which kids did this the least? Source?
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by palata 6mo ago
> Governments have been lobbied to Yep... and to make it worse, nobody is trying to push them towards looking at privacy-preserving age verification: instead technologists try to convince them that they just shouldn't regulate anyth
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by palata 6mo ago
If you think that there is a need for new technology to identify people, I suggest you wake up and start getting informed about surveillance capitalism. There is absolutely no need for new technology to track people, it's there alrea
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by palata 6mo ago
If it is possible to "pretend that they want something reasonable", it means that there is something reasonable somewhere. Maybe some want more control, but most certainly not everybody. > so that pervasive monitoring If you ha
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by palata 6mo ago
Adolescents, or kids? Would you say it's completely stupid to want to stop kids from watching porn, or accessing social media? Did you grow up with free streaming platforms? Pretty sure many adolescents were accessing porn before those
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by palata 6mo ago
It doesn't solve it. I don't think that there is a need for a technical solution to that, though. In the Kagi example, probably they trust that their users won't do that, and someone could already resell searches this way (e.
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by palata 6mo ago
I feel like you slightly miss both points. > Training must start from the basics though. Sure, but the point is that at some point (e.g. when starting a PhD) one needs to do research, not learn the basics. And LLMs make that harder, beca
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by palata 6mo ago
Tesla standards?
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by palata 6mo ago
> But how can this be done so that the site and I'd verifier can't collude on a backchannel to unmask you? Now we're talking :-). Look at Privacy Pass, it's interesting! If you like RFCs, it's here: https:/
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by palata 6mo ago
By privacy-preserving, we usually mean that you get some kind of cryptographic token from an entity that knows who you are (and can attest that you are above age), and that token is anonymous, so when you use it to access a random service,
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by palata 6mo ago
I think you misunderstand what "privacy-preserving" means here. The whole point is that they CAN identify you (to verify your age), but in... well a privacy-preserving manner :-). That is, one side knows who you are, but not what
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by palata 6mo ago
> I wonder what it means for an agent to “agree” to terms of service It's already not clear what it means for humans to do it, but it doesn't prevent every single service from asking it. At least an AI has a chance to ingest it
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by palata 6mo ago
I disagree. Maybe that's the intent of some people. Now go in the street and ask random people: "if there was a safe way to protect your children from accessing XYZ on the internet, do you think it would be a good thing?"
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by palata 6mo ago
> There is no such thing as privacy protecting or anonymous age verification There most definitely is privacy-protecting age verification. You go to a government office, you show your ID, they give you a piece of paper that officially sa
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by palata 6mo ago
I have seen implementations that preserve privacy. But fundamentally it means that an adult could give a token to a kid, as you say. But how bad is that? We don't need a perfect system, we just need it to be good enough that it prevent
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by palata 6mo ago
I literally got bullied by people who called themselves "the community" because they weren't happy with my copyleft license and the fact that I wasn't implementing their feature requests for free.
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by palata 6mo ago
Too rich to care.
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by palata 6mo ago
Reading the comments here, I see a lot of criticism along the line of "age verification doesn't work, it's completely stupid". I believe it is counter-productive, because "not having age verification" is a lost
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by palata 6mo ago
I learned to read very early because I really wanted to be able to start the games on the family computer (instead of having to ask an adult to do it for me). And only then I realised that it was all in English :-).
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by palata 6mo ago
Would be easy to say "if the software says "< 80%" after 1000 cycles, the warranty applies and the manufacturer has to replace it for free. I guess the law won't say that though.
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by palata 6mo ago
I love RSS as a way to subscribe to news feeds. But I want my RSS to do just that: when I click on the link, I want it to open the original website. I have tried the "reader" part of many RSS apps, and to me it always sucks. If th

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