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  1. Comment on Pornhub to block access in thirteen states as age-verification laws expand across US in ~tech

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    I’m inclined to agree for the single instance of Pornhub, but given that the legislation seemingly applies to any websites with a certain percentage of material deemed "harmful to minors", it all...

    I’m inclined to agree for the single instance of Pornhub, but given that the legislation seemingly applies to any websites with a certain percentage of material deemed "harmful to minors", it all seems unreasonably fractured.

    That being said, US state governments (in contrast to governments like Australia) don’t seem to be the most competent either based on recent history, ig it’s a decision between the lesser of two evils ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  2. Comment on Pornhub to block access in thirteen states as age-verification laws expand across US in ~tech

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    I don't understand why governments consistently put the onus on the websites themselves to implement age verification; how hard can is be to enforce a centralised government OTP or passkey app?...

    I don't understand why governments consistently put the onus on the websites themselves to implement age verification; how hard can is be to enforce a centralised government OTP or passkey app? The same thing is happening with the social media ban in Australia, and instead of using their pre-existing government authentication apps, they're asking websites to implement the verification?? Why?

    My issue is that I don't believe that anyone would reasonably trust Pornhub of all places to keep their sensitive personal details such as their drivers licence secure. Meanwhile, the government already has this information, so I trust them to have an app like myID and only provide the boolean value of whether my age is >18 or >16 or whatever relevant number to the service. Nothing more. Not my name, identity, driver's licence, only the simple fact that my age is indeed greater than the number required. If they could create that with an independently verifiable promise that they are not tracking what websites I am using, 95% of my concerns with laws like these would be alleviated.

    In my opinion, that is the only way any of this could be reasonably implemented.

    6 votes

  3. Comment on Homework tunes in ~music

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    Damnn interesting, that's almost the opposite of me. Is the high energy to get you motivated to do work or more just the style of music? I might give it a shot, I've never tried hardcore music

    Damnn interesting, that's almost the opposite of me. Is the high energy to get you motivated to do work or more just the style of music? I might give it a shot, I've never tried hardcore music

    1 vote

  4. Homework tunes

    ~music Ask (survey)
    What are your favourite songs to play while doing work? Personally I mostly like songs with no lyrics that have calmer instrumentals or ambient video game soundtracks. I made this Spotify playlist...

    What are your favourite songs to play while doing work?
    Personally I mostly like songs with no lyrics that have calmer instrumentals or ambient video game soundtracks. I made this Spotify playlist with some friends and I'm curious what resonated with other people :)

    17 votes

  5. Comment on Open-sourcing some Tildes-related code in ~tildes

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    I'd love to help out with this! I'll see if I can find some time to get a Rust API up and running, but it would definitely be amazing to have all the third party clients work off a shared API....

    I'd love to help out with this! I'll see if I can find some time to get a Rust API up and running, but it would definitely be amazing to have all the third party clients work off a shared API. Thank you so much for your work with the Swift app, especially making all source code public :D

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Cloud Servers for the Broke in ~comp

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    Try this link! If it doesn't work let me know I'll try my best to help :)

    Try this link! If it doesn't work let me know I'll try my best to help :)

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Cloud Servers for the Broke in ~comp

    garv
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    Mm for sure, Oracle has definitely been sketchy 😭 thankfully been pretty good for me so far with nothing too important but definitely getting the job done

    Mm for sure, Oracle has definitely been sketchy 😭 thankfully been pretty good for me so far with nothing too important but definitely getting the job done

    2 votes

  8. Cloud Servers for the Broke

    ~comp Text 133 words
    Just wanted to put this out there as a little PSA in case it's helpful: if you want a cloud server but don't wanna pay anything, Oracle's Free Tier is a life saver. Discovered it a year ago and...

    Just wanted to put this out there as a little PSA in case it's helpful: if you want a cloud server but don't wanna pay anything, Oracle's Free Tier is a life saver. Discovered it a year ago and couldn't be happier I did, since I'd never pay for cloud computing otherwise 😭.

    Quick Specs:

    For free you get:

    • 24/7 uptime
    • 200gb of storage space
    • 24GB of RAM
    • 4 OCPUs
    • 4 Gbps Bandwidth

    That's been more than enough for me and honestly feels too good to be true. Some things I've done with this:

    If anyone has any other ideas for cool projects I could self host, please do tell I'm curious what else I could do :)

    48 votes