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@ melroy @kbin.melroy.org

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  • Linux Distro Recommendation

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  • Linux Distro Recommendation

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  • Well. I used all alternatives (trust me). And I'm coming back to Linux mint due to the most stable system, that is not called Debian. I don't have the time to debug my system, as a software engineer I'm debugging enough already.

  • Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

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  • Fucking hell indeed. 🤣 There are more urgent issues on our world currently.

  • Linux Distro Recommendation

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  • Linux Mint

  • Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

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  • Did you read me message above? You just don't want age verification to begin with.

    Your reaction to your government should be: I will not comply. I will not follow this path.

    And basically you search for other workarounds or resistance, rather then trying to work with them to a "solution" that doesn't exists.

    You can't have privacy and id verification. You can't never have both. It's either one or the other.

    If you think it can be done, well done, this is exactly what they want you to be believe. And thinking it's OK what is going on.

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  • @JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz also you do understand that you are basically giving all the power to this random individual business that does the ID checks, right?

    It's like the current banking system. No thanks.

    That means your website can just be rejected by the ID partner and voila you got blocked from the internet. Maybe your website is discussing something that the government doesn't like?

    Whatever it is, you basically sell your soul to this ID verification company. And they can reject you from any website in the future for any random reason. And like I said, websites can be rejected as well from there system (it goes both ways).

    Tldr: you give them full power.

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  • Exactly. I still don't understand why people still think it's a good idea.

    Just no! No Id check. No "age verification". No "single company" or centralized bs. No. No. No.

    We have 30 years of internet, without the need of ID verification. I don't need it. I don't want it. I don't asked for it.

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  • Age check is very harming for your privacy. The whole EU want to go into this direction and it worries me a lot.

    Just not pornhub but also social media sites etc. The reason why I don't like it at all is that you once again need to share data with parties you don't want to give them data. Especially not your passport.

    It's a matter of time before data will be leaked online after a random data breach.

    Edit: I also want to add, it's also about full control. They can reject you from websites. And websites can be rejected from this system.

  • Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

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  • There you go. Of course they just use a VPN.

    Fk ID/age verification. Not just on this site but just in general.

  • There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • Signal Foundation is indeed non profit.. That being said OpenAI used to be non profit as well hahaha. And yes Bluesky is for-profit, just like X, Facebook etc.

  • There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • its cost more money upfront, since companies need to invest money to build their servers/server racks. You can also still rent space in a data-center, without the need of building your own data center.

    But on the long run, it can be much cheaper than constantly renting all the hardware. You can compare it to houses, buying a house costs more money then renting. But overall in the long run, you are normally better off buying a property (assuming you can of course.. its just an example).

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  • You don't need block chain. They just can start to self host, instead of joining aws like every other company.

    No sht that we only have 4 large cloud providers, it's because all there customers are lazy and do not want to self host.

  • There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

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  • The article says; if they self host it will cost them billions of dollars.

    But I don't believe that at all. In fact, self hosting can be much cheaper on the long run.

    This is the reason Bluesky apparently can scale so well, they use their own infra. Hack, I'm now sending this message from my own infra

  • Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like

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  • Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?

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  • Fact

  • Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?

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  • Just install Revanced

  • Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests

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  • I'm so happy I fully moved to Linux 15 years ago.

  • Why would I buy this?

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  • I'm pretty sure they do already have AI integration on the latest models..

  • Why would I buy this?

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  • I suppose we just have to hope the air conditioner doesn't suddenly hit us with a BSOD!