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xinayder
3mo ago
How about not needing to do age verification?
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xinayder
3mo ago
You also can't know if Google has broken any of the ZKP promises, or in terms of the field, if Google is cheating and uncovered the secret bits you shared.
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xinayder
3mo ago
Except that ZKP for sensitive data is far from being a thing, and also, I don't want the fucking government to have anything to do with what sites I access. Period. Why the hell do I need to login to my digital wallet to access a fucki
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xinayder
4mo ago
The Swiss succeeded in this, maybe we should look at their model and improve.
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xinayder
4mo ago
Let it not be forgotten that when Denmark was president of the Council of EU and tried to push this forward, one of the former colleagues/friends of the justice minister was charged with child abuse in 2025. Just search Henrik Sass Lar
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xinayder
4mo ago
Age verification online shouldn't exist, period.
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xinayder
4mo ago
I wish they provided an alternative to Cloudflare WARP as well.
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xinayder
4mo ago
Even with similar specs you can still get more performance from a PC because Valve is throttling the Machine to keep thermals down.
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xinayder
4mo ago
According to LTT the original price was in the $800 range, but thanks to Sam Altman it increased to what we saw today.
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xinayder
4mo ago
Steam accounts newer than April do not qualify, plus I think you need to have spent at least $5 to qualify for the reservation queue (i.e. not community limited)
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xinayder
4mo ago
How ironic it is that multibillion AI companies are complaining that their models are being distilled (read: used without permission) while the current top players trained their models on stolen data...
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xinayder
4mo ago
I've discussed this in my company, where I've argued that we are losing critical thinking skills for AI. My friend said being an engineer is not just writing code, but designing and architecting the system. I agree, but we are als
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xinayder
4mo ago
> FWIW: People building games contribute something to society, playing them contributes nothing. if there are no players, there is no money to be made, developers will be fired. and besides, I'd rather put someone on the street if t
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xinayder
4mo ago
> It's definitely not open hostility, but many little things which quickly give you the impression that you are not welcome and seen as a threat. Literally what most expats go through in Europe. I live abroad for 6 years and here, a
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xinayder
5mo ago
I remember when I watched a presentation from a Google engineer at a summer school for AI tech last year and I asked why Google shipped AI slop when no one wanted it. He tried to gaslight me saying "users like this feature", and I
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xinayder
5mo ago
The math doesn't add up. They say they found more than 20k vulnerabilities, then it decreases to 1700 high or critical, then this number becomes 175 (when Claude didn't reassess the CVE severity) and over 500 later on. Then they s
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xinayder
5mo ago
Maybe it's time to go back to the time where computers and entertainment were niche and develop efficient resource-constrained devices.... I hate it that we had decades of progress to have computers become a very expensive hobby becaus
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xinayder
5mo ago
> That sounds worse to be honest. You're essentially asking for the government to be not only aware of but also able to control all digital payments. That upends how money has worked over (literally) millenia, and is an incredible r
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xinayder
5mo ago
I knew something was wrong when they started showing a popup on the web vault asking you to subscribe, every time you open it. Enshittificstion incoming.
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xinayder
5mo ago
The same thing is happening at my company. We get meetings saying how the market and sales predictions are going well, we're doing so good... yet, budget within organizations inside the company keeps shrinking and we are having massive
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xinayder
5mo ago
As long as it misidentifies civilians as potential terrorists, for Israel, it's a feature, not a bug.
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xinayder
5mo ago
Can you show me examples where locking down an OS has prevented fraud in banking? Honestly, if the only way to secure your banking system is by locking down users' devices, there is something really bad going on at your end, security-w
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xinayder
5mo ago
And exactly how many Linux distros support Secure Boot out of the box? Just a few. I can perhaps agree that the idea of SB can be good, but it was designed (and is used) in a bad way. Just look at how many distros do not support SB.
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xinayder
5mo ago
Tell me when DMCA law has worked in favor of small companies/developers? DMCA is abused every. single. time.
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xinayder
5mo ago
DRM is a technology and is inherently evil. Web attestation is DRM for the web, and is inherently evil. Age ID is a technology and is inherently evil. We have over 30 years of the world wide web and for these more than 3 decades this was ne
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xinayder
5mo ago
Those in power who need convincing are the same ones pushing for mass surveillance online.
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xinayder
5mo ago
> Are there open and privacy-preserving standards that can solve the problem of bots and minors? If not, what would be required to establish one, and is it realistic? Ideally there shouldn't be standards for this. What we have alrea
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xinayder
5mo ago
If you use Turnstile you can skip all the Cloudflare captchas.
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xinayder
5mo ago
Can we stop normalizing being surveilled online and on our devices? Saying something like "the problem is not hardware attestation, but that they don't use ZKP". You are normalizing the new behavior. You shouldn't. It do
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xinayder
5mo ago
What crime are you preventing or detecting by verifying you're human?
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