@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-08-18 13:13:25
Really good clear explanation from @…, laying out various problems and risks with trying to implement "age verification" online.
"Firstly, in order to prove your age you’re being asked to hand over some fairly important personal details. ... Usually the company you’re handing these details to is a third party, often one you will never have heard of before. ...
"The data that is being collected for age verification purposes is extremely tempting to hackers ... and at the moment there is no specific regulation outlining the security standards that these companies should meet ...
"Let’s say all the current age verification providers are incredibly robust, though. ... The question still remains... should you be sharing this information with random websites anyway?
"... once you’ve trained the population of an entire country to routinely hand over their credit card details in order to access content, you have given them an incredibly bad habit that it’s going to be tough to break. ... You don’t just prove your age once, after all, you potentially have to do it dozens of times, to access a bunch of different websites. Everything from BlueSky to PornHub to Spotify and even maybe Wikipedia. It becomes a weekly or perhaps monthly occurrence. Just as individual users don’t tend to read every website’s terms and conditions, it’s unlikely they’re all going to do due diligence checks on every provider who asks for ID, especially once they’ve become used to just handing that data over.
"And although that may not be a problem for _you_, you tech-savvy cleverclogs, if you’ve ever found yourself in the position of unpaid IT support for one of your less knowledgeable friends or relatives, hopefully you can see why it’s a huge problem for the UK population more broadly."
And more!
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #OSA
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-08-19 06:30:58
“Anyone who claims to rely on the best scientific consensus today must report the current death toll in the Gaza genocide as ‘more than 115,000’ violent deaths or ‘more than 460,000’ overall.
Here, in detail, is why.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/202…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-09-19 06:37:54
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-10-18 02:48:20
Behind the scenes talk about how the English-language webcast of Japan's #SLIM landing on the Moon went: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxe3owbJr38#t=1h10m26s (from 1 hour 10 minutes 26 seconds) - see also https://cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/landing-on-the-moon-behind-the-scenes-of-the-night-when-slim-made-history/ for a related article and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/slim-vor-mond-landung-peregine-vor-erd-crash/ (from "Japans SLIM – mit zwei Extra-Vehikeln – vor der Mondlandung" in chronological order) for my live coverage back then, based on the JAXA webcast and direct reception of radio signals from the lander by radio amateurs with a 20 meter dish in my home town.
@ebinger@bildung.social2025-08-18 21:22:38
Tag 1 führte uns bis auf die letzten eineinhalb Stunden durch Dauerregen von #Landeck-#Zams (wo wir mit dem Zug hinkamen) bis nach Reschen am wunderschönen #Reschensee. Am Reschenpass gibt es eine
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-17 14:42:01
Today, @… and I had the pleasure of talking to the families behind four Mastodon accounts from Gaza over video chat and we’re very happy to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Talal Naser – https://
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-17 13:56:00
40 Jahre 80386: Intels wichtigstes Produkt
Was heute als "x86" bekannt ist, nahm vor 40 Jahren seinen Anfang: Der Intel 80386 war 32-bittig, wurde über 20 Jahre gebaut und trieb nicht nur PCs an.
https://www.
@ebinger@bildung.social2025-07-19 10:52:46
Tag 18 von #MeinCamino2025 und gleichzeitig der letzte Tag (gestern): Der Wecker klingelte um 4 Uhr in O Pedrouzo, weil wir wegen dem #Botafumeiro (Riesen-Räucherfass) unbedingt die 12 Uhr Messe besuchen wollten. Die 19 km waren kein Problem, denn ab dem Berg der Freude (Monte do Gozzo), wo…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-08-18 04:18:00
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-07-19 05:15:10
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Um Trump nicht zu verärgern: Brüssel lässt DSA-Verfahren gegen X angeblich ruhen