big85

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by big85 1mo ago
There is just such a HTTP header, for adult sites. It's not granular enough to set individual age ratings, just to mark a page as 18+. < https://www.rtalabel.org/page.php?content=howtofaq >
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by big85 1mo ago
XKEYSCORE, the UK system brought in to allow warrantless surveillance for national security purposes and child abuse prevention, ended up being used for such minor offences as catching people dumping rubbish in other people's bin, or p
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by big85 1mo ago
LumiWeather for AmigaOS runs on 2 MB RAM.
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Online Safety Act – Call for Evidence(committees.parliament.uk)
6 points by big85 1mo ago|1 comments
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by big85 1mo ago
UK Parliament accepting submissions for evidence regarding the effect of the Online Safety Act (including its failures and detrimental effects, I should note). Deadline is 7 September 2026.
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by big85 2mo ago
All this ostensibly to keep teenage boys from watching Pornhub (when parental controls already exist). The real reason, of course, is to force people to connect strong real-life identifiers to online activity. Mobile first, then Windows. Th
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by big85 2mo ago
So much for the EU's mission to reduce e-waste.
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by big85 2mo ago
This event is excellent advertisement for GrapheneOS and its privacy and security features.
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by big85 2mo ago
The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Measure of a Man" discusses this topic. Data, an android, is put on trial to determine whether he has personhood, or is merely a machine. One of the best early-season episodes.
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by big85 2mo ago
It's bizarre to see 8GB spoken of as barely sufficient for basic uses. I remember when the baseline was measured in megabytes.
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by big85 2mo ago
If you don't fight government overreach now, it becomes permanent.
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by big85 2mo ago
There's also Nectarine Demoscene Radio: https://www.scenestream.net/demovibes/
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by big85 2mo ago
No, I want to know specifically.
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by big85 2mo ago
The Wikipedia entry on Chat Control doesn't go into enough detail on what exactly it does , only the history of its legislative process. Can someone update it?
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by big85 3mo ago
Parental controls. Client-side blocking of content. Apple's parental controls are so good that parents give young children unsupervised internet access--the entire generation if iPad babies. Current iPads even use on-device AI to detec
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by big85 3mo ago
The existing paradigm is on-device parental controls. It's worked for the past 30 years, and the alternative is forcing everyone to show government ID to use websites.
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by big85 3mo ago
I vaguely recall a story about an employee who discovered that their company's sales department was acquiring a lot of new customers to hit some metrics, but rarely actually closing the deal. The employee spent months chasing up incomp
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by big85 3mo ago
Most VPN companies won't implement age verification, because their purpose is privacy. This is really an attempt to ban VPNs. This won't be popular when 70% of the population uses VPNs.
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by big85 3mo ago
UK government has been talking about digital ID for a while now. The existing verification methods are too vulnerable to cheating (fake beards, fake ID, borrow dad's credit card, etc...), so the logical next step is direct government I
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by big85 3mo ago
> You don’t. You can’t. So everyone gets carded. Exactly. A little at a time. First it's adult sites, because if you need to show ID to buy alcohol, shouldn't you need ID to buy pornography? Once that's accepted, expand t
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by big85 3mo ago
I suspect something like this is on the way, in the long term. Every site has some Cloudflare captcha or the like to guard against the AI scraper bots. Eventually, we may need some kind of token which is only issued to real humans.
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by big85 3mo ago
<meta name="RATING" content="RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA" /> I wonder why the rating code is so complex. Pornhub.com has this code enabled, but it also uses a simpler <meta name="rating" content=&
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by big85 3mo ago
We have parental controls on devices. The change forced by the UK government is to give control to corporations, instead of the parents. Parents are much better at knowing their own kid's age than corporations are. Teens keep fooling t
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by big85 3mo ago
About 2 million adults in the UK don't have government-issued photo ID. Certainly many 16-17 year olds will have trouble verifying their age. They're blocking huge sectors of the UK population from being able to use the internet n
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by big85 3mo ago
Indeed. I don't see why the verification process has to be done once per user per website , instead of once per user . That maximizes costs, inconvenience, privacy risks, and compliance failures.
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by big85 3mo ago
This is bizarre, then, because the on-device Apple system just enables the existing parental controls by default, while the online verification systems are easily cirvumvented.
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by big85 3mo ago
There's still the issue of how to verify the user to give them that 1 bit. The current tools do not trust the user or the user's device, because the user could lie or modify the software on their device. But once my ID leaves the
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by big85 3mo ago
Then enable parental controls on your children's devices. But don't enable it on my device, because I'm an adult.
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by big85 3mo ago
The actual goal, of course, is to create pretext to ban VPN services which don't ID their customers.
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by big85 3mo ago
Quite right. Around 2 million UK adults don't have photo ID, mostly concentrated among poorer and less educated people, and many of those have difficulty getting credit card for the same reason. The UK is violating their basic ECHR rig

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