@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-08-06 16:01:00
Really good 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
@hanno@mastodon.social2025-05-07 07:45:54
This is a gruelling summary of all the things wrong with OpenSSL https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks I've mostly watched this whole thing from the sidelines, but was also affected noting that private key parsing suddenly became 70 times slower. I think they've now …
@stiefkind@mastodon.social2025-07-05 19:46:30
»Das Grillen – vor allem, wenn es im Freien geschieht – ist eine Art Gesellschaftsspiel, das überdies noch wohlschmeckende Ergebnisse zeitigt.«
Aus: Drummer/Muskewitz – Kochkunst aus dem Fernsehstudio, Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1981 #wirkochengut
@Ann_Effes@berlin.social2025-08-02 19:13:42
Es bewahrheitet sich immer wieder, der Grillmaster hatte recht:
http://www.grillmaster2000.de/files/weltverschwoerung1.html
Die geheime Verschwörung der Steakhäuser ist immer noch aktiv, und auch in Polen (wenngleich nur in abgeschwächter Form):
@thijs_lucas@norden.social2025-06-01 15:23:54
Die #IGMetall läd wieder zum #Radschlag
Die Einladung richtet sich ausdrücklich an Beschäftigte der Fahrradbranche.
Ich bin damit nicht mitgemeint, aber eine stabile und konkurrenzfähige Fahrradbranche ist für alle Radfahrer*innen von Vorteil. Verlässlichere Qualität, bessere und mehr Aus…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-06-02 23:06:07
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Judy Garland:
🎵 Over The Rainbow
#JudyGarland
https://gause.bandcamp.com/track/judy-garland
https://open.spotify.com/track/568SEFtDjKr7N2PytpA6D5
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-06 07:23:15
En Route Path-planning for Partially Occupied Vehicles in Ride-pooling Systems
Pengbo Zhu, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, Nikolas Geroliminis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04968
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-07-04 15:38:27
Devo dizer que este xkcd me fez gargalhar.
Não foi o soprozinho de ar pelo nariz geralmente associado ao "lol". Foi mesmo uma gargalhada.
https://mastodon.xyz/@xkcd/114795622574452670
@arXiv_mathCO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-06 09:41:24
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05306 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…
@arXiv_astrophCO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-06 07:27:59
Characterising the Standardisation Properties of Type Ia Supernovae in the z band with Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling
Erin E. Hayes, Suhail Dhawan, Kaisey S. Mandel, David O. Jones, Ryan J. Foley, Stephen Thorp, Matthew Grayling, Sam M. Ward, Aaron Do, Danial Langeroodi, Nicholas Earl, Kaylee M. de Soto, Gautham Narayan, Katie Auchettl, Thomas de Boer, Kenneth C. Chambers, David A. Coulter, Christa Gall, Hua Gao, Luca Izzo, Chien-Cheng Lin, Eugene A. Magnier, Armin Rest, Qinan Wang
