Linux Mint on desktop, laptop, and home server. Doesn’t hurt to have the full install on the server, and I have a monitor hooked up anyway - but makes maintenance easier with everything the same distro. Batocera on the retro gaming pc.

Android on phone, but if there was a distro for my phone I would use Linux there too. F-droid for apps where possible, but Play store for some essentials.

• Die Hard
• Mean Girls
• Elf
• Grinch (Jim Carrey version)
• Klaus

I wasn’t thinking in detail, just addressing an assumption I think a lot of age verification discussions include, which is that the verifier would have to be trusted to maintain some sort of account for you, retaining your data etc.

I have no idea what the legislation says, but I’d be a happier privacy-conscious user if the verification platforms were independent (i.e. not in any other data business) and regulated, with a requirement they don’t retain my personal data at all (like the liquor store example)

So the verifier gathers data from you, matches it with a request from the platform, provides confirmation that some standard has been met, and deletes almost all personal information - I acknowledge that this may not rise to the double-blind standard of the original request

Edited to add:

• you don’t have to ‘buy’ a token, the platform needs to pay verifiers as a cost of business

• some other comments are asking how you prevent the verifier knowing the platform - to my mind you don’t, instead the verifier retains a request id record from the platform, but forgets entirely who you are

A joke answer, but with the kernel of truth - IRL age verification often requires a trusted verifier (working under threat of substantial penalty) but often doesn’t require that verifier to maintain any documentation on individual verification actions

https://chinwag.au/verification/

I found the same about engagement - every post had 5000 comments but only the top 100 could generate actual conversation, everyone else might as well be talking to themselves

“Although FBI file reviews are standard for presidential cabinet candidates…”

I don’t disagree with you, but this is a non-story. The committee asks for and receives this information as a matter of course

Needs an extra panel for LMFAO where the last panel shows a slight exhalation through the nose

I browse by new, so I often see the spam advertising and bad faith garbage (Logic_&_Ethics anyone?) so I just block liberally

I literally don’t know what I’m missing

ETA: I also don’t have a language set, so if I see a foreign language community with no English posts or comments I’ll just block it

2 instances

175 users

515 communities

I thought reading The Grapes of Wrath was like watching Requiem for a Dream - I’m glad I did it once, and I will never do it again

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg

https://youtube.com/watch?v=m4K8NJ3_Dw0

Relevant xkcd

Harris Wins Tasty Endorsement

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/critics-say-googles-new-zip-and-mov-domains-will-be-a-boon-to-scammers/

aBundleOfFerrets Says Humans Will Reach the Singularity Within 3 Years

<semantic satiation rule>

Thanks. I just got a couple of cheap chinese ESP32s and was going to start with some Arduino IDE programming, but I’ll have a look at esphome too

Did you follow a guide?

Thanks, I was more worried that there was something completely wrong security-wise with that approach!