pksebben

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by pksebben 10mo ago
palm-down. If you've ever seen the brits salute, it's palm-forward.
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by pksebben 10mo ago
It's a matter of degree. You're right, of course, but there was a time not so long ago when such things were ubiquitous - even on the internet. Once upon a time, even the darkest corners like 4chan were actually kind of tongue-i
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by pksebben 10mo ago
the logic they describe does work. A lot. The Rollback of Dodd-Frank [0]. Recent malpractice reform (in the wrong direction) [1]. Drilling leases [2]. Asbestos. And so on and so on [3]. Tiger's in the house, y'all. And t
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by pksebben 10mo ago
You know, ideological differences aside, there are some brass-tacks reasons that this particular brand of rhetoric does you no good, and actually hurts you. Bought groceries lately? Kind of expensive, no? A significant portion of that is
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by pksebben 10mo ago
not even a joke, we're skipping the 4th and celebrating bastille day this year. Ten days apart and the food and drink are just better.
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by pksebben 10mo ago
you know, I feel like we don't actually do that so much these days. It's simply too likely that the receiving party is going to take you at face value or make up their own deeper meaning. Take irony / sarcasm / satire.
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by pksebben 10mo ago
We really need a decent channel to petition other countries, as the US public. Maybe we could write on a legal pad and hold it up in the rear window as we pass them on the highway.
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by pksebben 10mo ago
I served. While in basic training, the drill sergeants taught us why we salute differently than other countries (probably apocryphal) - because we've "never lost a war". I'm cheeky now and I was then, so I asked about
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by pksebben 10mo ago
is it normal for these places to have 0 liabilities? That alone seems like it ought to raise a flag - if you're not spending the money... Edit: Clicked through some of the other entries in there and yeah, usually liabilities are relat
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by pksebben 10mo ago
We're not totally unempowered here, as folks who know how to tech. We can build open source alternatives that are as easy to use and install as the <epithet>-ware we are trying to combat. Part of the problem has been that there&
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by pksebben 10mo ago
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do Look more like?
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by pksebben 10mo ago
That's partially true; the bit about borders and human history (so long as you sequester 'history' to 'recorded history') - but nationalism is actually newer than you'd think, and there were human societies for
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by pksebben 10mo ago
This might be a little broad for most, but I find the whole concept of nationalism and border sovereignty kinda tired. Who cares? We were nomads before we settled in cities, and it's only the designs of the empowered few that ever ma
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by pksebben 10mo ago
If I believed that the efforts in question were in earnest, I would absolutely be talking through the finer points of how to do it right. I don't believe that, though. The veneer of legitimacy here is paper thin - we start with a ver
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by pksebben 10mo ago
See, I don't think they'd really bother with an amendment. FWIG there's also something in there about the right to a trial (is it the sixth?) that they've just kinda ignored. Is it that it's the first one that mak
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by pksebben 10mo ago
human drivers are inconvenient. They need sleep, and food, and probably won't be willing to take a 5 month trip south of the border for giggles. They poop. Inevitably they will try to do weird shit like have a conversation.
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by pksebben 10mo ago
the more I think about it, the more I feel like I need someone with deep knowledge to explain ZKPs to me. So like, we've got this algorithm that gets sent our way and we run it and that provides kind of a cryptographic hash or whatever
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by pksebben 10mo ago
> So how long will we have to wait before it dawns on them I think the whole idea is that we don't have to wait, and that "it dawned on them" before they even wrote the draft law.
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by pksebben 10mo ago
Very much this. The research points to hours spent on social media - not 'I saw something adult and now my fragile little mind is le bork'. If you want kids to be healthier you're gonna have to deal with it on the device lev
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by pksebben 10mo ago
I suppose it depends on your goals, but that scope restraint can be a good thing. Do one thing, do it well, and while you're at it call yourself by the thing you do so you remember that's what you ought to be doing. A bit wordy f
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by pksebben 10mo ago
Is porn the biggest problem here? What I've seen points the finger at social media as the worst offender for youth mental health. Also, access to porn isn't new with the internet. When we cleared out my grandpa's house we h
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by pksebben 10mo ago
Ya got me. Nevermind that the DSA (which I have read, in part) and the DIW (new to me) are different things, and that one does not mention the other [0]. Also the DSA is happening now while the Wallet thing isn't rolled out. There ar
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by pksebben 10mo ago
You would think so, but DARE increased adolescent usage of some drugs while having little to no effect on others. Turns out being illegal isn't as much of a disincentive as being uncool. If your parents are smoking it...
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by pksebben 10mo ago
As many others have mentioned in this thread and others, there are ways - effective and straightforward ways - that we could be protecting our kids from the harms that come with the www. The harms are real. The solution is a Surveillance
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by pksebben 10mo ago
They don't need to. If you bought something with a card they just store that - let the data brokerage handle connecting it with actual ID cards and other elements of your identity. But yeah, walmart is for sure logging their transacti
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by pksebben 10mo ago
I appreciate the mention - i had not yet heard of this EU DIW thing. That said, I can't find any resources on it that mention the use of ZKPs. Could you share a link?
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by pksebben 10mo ago
Like many mention in other comments on this post, it's possible to implement using ZKPs. There are likely other methods that would be effective without compromising privacy. None of them are part of the Age Verification discussion be
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by pksebben 10mo ago
I'm not dismissing that idea. It is a perfectly reasonable thing to think about, part of why we have age verification techniques that already work well in critical places like online vape shops. I'm even willing to talk about the
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by pksebben 10mo ago
This keeps coming up and we keep having the same debates about what Age Verification isn't. For the folks in the back row: Age Verification isn't about Kids or Censorship, It's about Surveillance Age Verification isn'
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by pksebben 10mo ago
I don't understand the downvotes. If you have this question then so do others and it ought to be part of the discourse. Anyhow... From what I've seen, the current wave of ID-gating the internet is a wedge for opening the door to

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