Practicability and ethics aside, do people not understand how ecosystems work? What do they think keeps herbivore populations from growing uncontrollably and overrunning our fields? Ask China about the sparrows.
It happens all the time. Another famous example is the Azure Window on the island of Gozo, Malta. You might know it from the Dothraki Wedding in the first season of Game of Thrones. It collapsed in March 2017.
Your tl;dr makes it sound like they found his body, never bothered to recover it and put a „do not enter“ sign in front of the cave.
It’s much worse than that. He was found while he was still alive and over a hundred rescuers tried to get him out until his heart couldn’t handle it anymore and he died after 27 hours. Only then they decided to leave him there, used explosives to collapse the passage to where he was stuck and then blocked all entrances with concrete.
Well, even without everything that happened to him, he would have died from old age by now. Might have had a chance to see the rise of home computers and the early internet though.
Until Discord starts classifying anything and everything as adult content, TikTok style. Can't curse, can't talk about any form of violence. Good luck talking about most video games when you can't say "gun", "kill" or "die".
Very very likely not the first. We‘ve had rovers on mars for about three decades now and all of them had cameras. Mars days are only slightly longer than earth days so there have been over 10000 opportunities to just point a camera at the horizon and take a picture.
You would need to include the birth date in the certificate. But of course that would have its own privacy implications.
And that's what I'm trying to say: your "just do X" falls short. It is incredibly hard, maybe impossible, to build a reliable age verification system where neither the websites nor the government can violate your privacy. Even the tiniest mistake can mean that the whole thing comes crashing down. And no, "just trust your government" is not a solution. Even if I trust my current government, the next election could put raging Nazis in power who use every available database to identify and terrorize people they don't like.
If someone designs a system that satisfies all these requirements and is reviewed by multiple independent security researchers, I'm all for implementing it. But from what I know about government IT projects, it currently looks like every country will implement its own system, each with obvious problems that can be exploited by the average computer science student.
About the part of sending the certificate, how do you say they should check the age? By smoke signs?
The whole point about certificates is that they are signed with an asymmetric cryptographic key so you can verify them on your own. You have a list of root certificates from trusted certificate authorities and when a user sends you a certificate that claims to be issued by the Spanish government, you check the signature with the Spanish root certificate. No need to contact the Spanish government's server about that specific certificate.
This is exactly how any certificate validation process works today. Otherwise, your web browser would have to talk to a bunch of certificate authorities every time you open an HTTPS connection to a website.
And as a follow up to my previous point, now that I'm at my PC and don't have to type on my phone:
Even if we made certificates in a way that can't be shared, for example by locking the private key inside a physical device (like a digital passport), we have solved nothing.
Your certificate would immediately become your digital fingerprint that will be stored with your account (to find duplicates) and can be tracked across websites as soon as a database gets leaked or the sites' owners sell your data to advertisers (when would that ever happen?). While that fingerprint alone doesn't say anything about you except your age, it makes it trivial to aggregate your activity across the whole internet. Ever bought something on a site that requires age verification? Congratulations, your certificate is now tied to an address. Shared a selfie somewhere? Your certificate has a face. Even without personal data directly in the certificate, it would be a privacy nightmare and exactly what the EU GDPR tried (and failed) to prevent.
The next step would be to find a mechanism that creates single use certificates every time you need one. But you can't do that locally, because the certificates still need to be signed (and revocable) by a trusted authority. So maybe you need to send a certificate signing request to a government server every time you sign up for something. That could work for some use cases but requires expensive infrastructure that is never allowed to fail even for a few minutes or it would cause chaos.
... and now I've noticed your exact wording, implying that sites would forward the users' certificates to the authority to be verified. That's a big no-no. A site may never ever acknowledge to an authority that it has seen a specific certificate. The authority necessarily knows who the owner of that certificate is and even if they don't tell the website, the authority itself can keep track of every citizen. "On date X, PornHub asked us to verify the age for certificate ABCDEF which we know belongs to John Doe from Somesmalltown" is not something I would want to be stored on a government server.
And this is all still assuming that the infrastructure for this would be implemented according to modern standards without security-critical shortcuts. If you have any hope that will ever happen, I recommend you click through https://media.ccc.de/ and watch some talks about government IT fails. Many are available in English.
Certificates that can’t be tied to a specific person can and will be shared, making them essentially worthless.
We‘ve had that in Germany about 20 years ago. Some websites asked you to verify your age by entering a part of the encoded data on the back of your ID card. It took maybe a few days until lists with valid IDs were all over the internet.
Sure, certificates are marginally more reliable because they can be revoked but at that point, websites need to update their revocation lists close to real time which isn’t practical and still can’t catch every shared cert.
Reliably verifying your identity without revealing too many personal details is an extremely hard problem that has troubled computer scientists for decades.
I don't think our measures are that different. I meant "successful as a businessman" which is mostly equivalent to "selfish prick" and very different from being a good person.
Remember: these days, business isn't about running a company that will generate a modest profit for generations. It's about convincing people that a polished turd (or enshittification of your predecessor's product) is the next big thing, then selling your shares and jumping ship before it crashes.
I would say he has been very successful. He managed to become a billionaire by collecting money from investors without even needing a viable product. Even when the bubble bursts, he probably has enough other assets to live a very comfortable life.
Docker 29 hat API-Änderungen, mit denen Portainer und traefik inkompatibel sind. Das ist aber schon zwei Monate her und soweit ich das verstehe auch inzwischen behoben.
Personally, I don't care if it's one message or two. The thing that annoys me is people who send a greeting and then wait for a response before telling me what they actually want. If someone sends "hi" and then immediately starts typing their actual question, that's fine for me, especially on platforms with a typing indicator.
You're welcome to start with "Hi", "Hello" or even "Greetings, my lord" but please don't just leave it at that. Follow up with your actual question immediately so the recipient knows what you need and if it's urgent.
They are pretty effective at showing how many victims there were. There are three right in front of my door and in some German cities you can't walk more than a few dozen meters without seeing one. And now remember that only about 100k have been placed. That's only about 1% of the total victims.
Practicability and ethics aside, do people not understand how ecosystems work? What do they think keeps herbivore populations from growing uncontrollably and overrunning our fields? Ask China about the sparrows.