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dogs0n

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  • Is private age verification technically possible and if so how?

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  • Let's not pretend that these laws actually do protect children..

    There is always a way around something and if there's any population to figure it out, it's the ones with the most free time.

    The difference between going to a bar and using the internet: Showing your ID at a bar doesn't mean it's stored on some server possibly ready to be stolen by hackers. It also doesn't automatically link all of your user data to your id (like it does right now) and make it easier to track your movements everywhere you go.

    These laws help no one except the elite. They restrict us, limit access to information and eventually cause our data to be comprimised.

    Bad parents exist, but does that mean we lockdown the most expansive knowledge base for everyone? I don't believe this will stop any children of bad parents from being exposed to horrible things online. Age gates don't stop that (because they either get bypassed or another site exposes even worse stuff without the age gate).

  • Is private age verification technically possible and if so how?

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  • That's what the router setting to block adult websites is for... you don't have to monitor 24/7, have some idea that bad sites are blocked, and you can just be doing regular checkups on your child then.

    There is and was never a need to involve IDs, other than more control over us as a whole and being able to extract more data.

  • ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI

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  • I agree with you, though even when I have just made a change myself, I am looking through the git diff like a crazy person.

    So, still I think refactoring my own code is much more fun than telling AI to do it for me and then proceeding to review and test it for weeks (allegedly, lol).

    You seem to be using it responsibly by asking it how things could be better.

    I'd never copy and paste output from an AI or give it free roam to make a PR, etc myself.

    I'll probably be sitting out on this update for a while too until I gage the general reactions of people heh :)

  • ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI

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  • At that point, I think: Why not just write the code yourself?

    Writing the code is more fun that reviewing code, not to mention less error prone.

  • I built a self-hosted period tracker because I couldn't find one worth using

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  • I'm guessing you let the AI make the tests and everything, which wouldn't give me much reassurance that any of the code is good. Sadly AI will jump through any hoops it can to get tests to pass if it can't get the code working.

    I think people who let AI run wild to create a whole app should write the tests themselves or at least only with line completion (jusdging by a quick look at the project files, I am guessing an AI did everything).

    Could be food for thought?

  • I was told it would be a cultural experience

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  • France is doing it correctly, that sounds awesome. I wanna go to a gas station, get hopped up on some fumes and then start blasting arrows in every direction

  • "No right to relicense this project" - on changing the license of Mark Pilgrim's chardet from LGPL to MIT after a vibe-coded rewrite

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  • If you truly enjoy free software and the right to modify, then you enjoy copy left.

    MIT is how you have your work "stolen" by people who hate freedoms and want to lock everything down.

    I really think everyone using copyleft licenses is the correct future. Licensing with MIT has become very popular, but I don't think it should be.

  • Apple rolls out OS-level age verification in latest iOS 26.4 dev beta

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  • Linux can run on macbooks, you can probably look up the model online and see if it has good support. I used to run debian on a macbook, though that macbook was from 2013 or something like that.

    On the other hand, if you can sell your macbook and get more than a good thinkpad (for your use) is selling for, I would do that.

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • You make it sounds like a good thing; people will wont have microslops os by default.. they may pick loonix!!! (this comment is brought to you by me)

    Wait im dumb miceoslip WILL HAVE AGE ASSURANCE!!! GET out everyone will you can

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    Bloody backpack of Iranian girl killed in US-Israeli attack on Iranian elementary school

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  • The US military will reportedly use Elon Musk's Grok AI in its classified systems

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  • (With the CSAM settings maxed out ofc)

  • Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform

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  • Playstation is next;

    80% of the xbox crowd is probably gonna buy a playstation. Maybe a few will go for a PC and the rest for a switch.

    Couch goblins that look into the future when considering the cost of a console might find the steam machine worthy when it releases.

  • watching age-restricted videos from youtube without google account

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  • Hmmm.. similar to how Aurora store lets you use one of their google accounts to download from play store. Sounds like a good idea for alt clients (though idk if that involves expensive proxying to avoid passing around tokens so maybe not feasible).

  • Whats a good hobby to get into, as someones whos home alot with a laptop?

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  • Yes or your second or third too :)

    If you wanna start out I'd say JavaScript (or typescript) if your best bet because you can make pretty much anything with it (websites, desktop apps, cli apps, servers.. anything you desire).

  • As a private person doing nothing illegal, is there value to having a VPN?

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  • There's value in real privacy friendly VPNs (think Mullvad), otherwise you just end up trusting some other, probably very shady actors with all your data instead.

    Unless you need one for specific things like using free wifi safely, torrenting or getting around restrictions then there is not much benefit.

    Most VPNs won't even work for daily browsing as far as I'm aware. You'll get hit with way more captchas and potentially just not be able to access certain sites because someone has either got the vpn providers ip banned temporarily on the site or the site bans IP addresses associated with servers.

    Personally, for generic browsing, I'm not too concerned if my ISP can see the domain names I'm accessing. I, as you probably do, only use HTTPS everywhere so the domain name is the most they'll know, but you can do some work to try limiting exposure with DNS over HTTPS (DoH), etc if you want to.

    There's also TLS 1.3 addition of ECH which further helps by hiding the hostname.

    Of course your ISP will always know the IP address you send packets to, but that is an even smaller problem.

    And my final note: just use one when you need to, I don't think it's necessary to have one on 24/7 at home like some people advise and NEVER use a free vpn or one of the more mainstream ones (mullvad is best, second choice is AirVPN).

  • Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible'

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  • The real impossibility is the work force, as far as my knowledge is knowledged from a while back.

    Also if they did move 40% of production to the US, I can't personally see that meaning the US would drop taiwan and let china take it. If you think about that for 1 second longer, you think they'd surrender 60% to china? If I had the best chips, I wouldn't let anyone else get anywhere near them, lest they steal the secret recipe. (Just my thoughts on the matter).

    (p.s. im not smart so maybe im wrong?)

  • Are gender-exclusive groups ever ok?

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  • I'm not gonna have an opinion, but I'd like to say that it sounds harsh to exclude someone based on other people being weird, no?

    I don't know if you need a male-only space or a normal-person space (probably the latter).

    That being said, I could maybe see how people may not want to make certain jokes in front of certain people, but if youre just having fun and youre not racist or something um idk

  • Is there a 100% free way to pirate as a newcomer?

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  • ISP will detect it and typically they will send you a letter saying "we know you downloaded _____ illegally, if we catch you again, we will cancel your service".

    It's actually the studios that own the content you are torrenting that will seed the torrent and then collect a list of all IP addresses that connect to them, then they ask your ISP to shut your internet off.

    You ISP doesn't actually care if you torrent, because if they cancel your internet they lose out on money.

  • Switching to GrapheneOS

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  • This doesn't make sense. Some apps require google services, so you can't get around that, assuming the app is very important to you (best you can do is use it only in a separate profile or just give in and do it on your main, its sandboxed after all).

    I agree with the play store part though, Aurora Store is much better (I wouldn't use aptoide or apkmirror personally, especially when Aurora exists).

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    Getting out of "evil" GitHub