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The EU age verification app is presented as “completely anonymous”. The idea is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography.
But currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality. More importantly, the app is designed to always function without ZKP. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time.
More details on https://mullvad.net/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free-internet
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Ernest Hemingway wrote poetry, spoke French, AND tried to machine gun nazis from a boat.
The boat thing was mostly an excuse to drink at sea, I believe, but the point stands.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:skf244z64dfa5yvynksq65ij/post/3mn2w27bxns2c
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A free lance artist just did this free lance drawing.. feel free to share it. as with all free lance drawings there is no charge of course.
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Nice report from amnesty UK showing trend of growing awareness and common sense about genderism in the UK
> Like a snowball: the growth and impact of the gender critical movement in the UK
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/like-a-snowball/
> Explores the rise of the gender critical movement in the UK, its media influence and impact on trans rights. Read the full report and technical summary.
> Like a snowball: the growth and impact of the gender critical movement in the UK
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/like-a-snowball/
> Explores the rise of the gender critical movement in the UK, its media influence and impact on trans rights. Read the full report and technical summary.
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The systemd project has announced that to comply with Canada's proposed Bill C-22, systemd will incorporate a mechanism to automatically install the government's public key into the `authorized_keys` configuration of every sshd server.
"It's not about politics in software, it's about ensuring the safety of our children," said Lennart Poettering's Claude agent. "Complying in advance is something we must do, as it allows us to get ahead of You have reached the monthly limit of your Max 20x plan. Click here to purchase more usage credits."
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The GPS/satnav came out, and eventually came to our phones, and we all gradually got worse at finding our way without it.
Don't believe me? Turn it off for a month and see how you do. I've been doing this the last month and it's been enlightening.
That cognitive offloading isn't necessarily bad, per se (this is debatable). I think that really depends on the task and the outcome.
But even for simple tasks, I think it's important to recognize that there's a loss when we trust a machine to do some of it.
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"... right now, the country that is pushing the hardest for keeping *some of* the liberal institutions, like the World Bank, for example, is the People's Republic of China. They want some of those institutions to remain, but have more of a Global South flavour, and I agree with them ... this is it's moment. It needs to be represented equally in the international organisation hierarchy."
#PaulBuchanan, political scientist, former Pentagon Analyst, 2026
It's annoying how contested and confusing political terms are.
Does "capitalism" mean free markets or investor-ownership?
Does "libertarianism" mean a politics of freedom or does it mean a politics of property?
Does "communism" mean a classless, moneyless, stateless society or does it mean totalitarianism?
Does "liberalism" mean a politics of freedom or does it mean a politics of 'equity'?
Wikipedia defines left-wing as a politics of equality and right-wing as a politics of hierarchy. But then why is transgenderism considered left-wing and the pro-life-movement right-wing?
And if being against abortion is right-wing, does that mean so is being against killing animals for meat and leather? Because any sane person would say those are both pro-life.
I hate having RSD.
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If you're into compooters (platonically) and nerdy rabbit holes you probably already know @tom7 a.k.a suckerpinch.
His misadventures in science of "why not" and solving problems we don't have in ways we don't want are incredibly interesting, often way over my head yet still entertaining and also educational in an odd sense of "this is what you don't want to do and why".
Chess, puns, machine learning (before it was cursed) electronics and the FLUGHAFEN top bike trick.
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Ham radio net today someone was talking about lack of space for an antenna, and also a metal patio cover in the way... I was the only one who told them to use the metal patio cover as the antenna, lol. (lots of "buy this" or "buy that"... conventional consumer thinking exists among the more DIY-oriented, techie ham radio world, too.) #hamradio #antennas
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@TheBreadmonkey I would honestly say catching pests for me would qualify as more than sufficient rent if only we could come to some sort of agreement that they are not to walk around in the middle of the ceiling — especially above my bed. High corners are fine, but that's the one thing we can't have.
(You probably don't want to ask.)
Really if somehow we could just come to some sort of agreement with most of the bugs around us somehow I'd change so much... Like I wouldn't mind leaving out offerings for the ants or something for instance if they'd stay out of the inner part of the house and not randomly find me and sting me or suicide into my coffee (why???) Like I would actually give them food and water... I'd be fine with that. We just need a contract.
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been thinkin about nutrition and trying to feed myself better.
i think veggie meals may be an easy way to do it cause a lot of the time they're completely edible without too much in the way of cooking. and also good, fresh meat is expensive.
try find something i can make in a single pot/whatever. should have a look at japanese and chinese rice dishes, methinks, as those are usually packed with flavour
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Two More Major Linux Vulnerabilities Discovered in the Same Class as Copy Fail
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it's the U.S.S. Mommy Milkers or we riot
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Slavoj Zizek — Why I'm Against Both Sides in the Transgender Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sLJkQq38fs
This guy in the comments absolutely nailed it:
> Zizek goes way off into the wilderness on this topic. Traditional gender ideology posits that there is a broad set of social behaviours that are 'feminine' and another that are 'masculine' and that females must adopt the feminine and males the masculine. Trans ideology is a reaction to the traditional but on its terms, e.g. there are males who 'should have been females' and therefore they may adopt the feminine, and vice versa. The correct interpretation is that a large component of behaviour is neurologically constructed by experience, and innate aspects of behaviour are also contaminated by the constructed aspects. The 'masculine' and 'feminine' have no absolute biological origin. It is objectively true (and will probably remain so unless it becomes possible to transplant brains - which concept increasingly seems to be incompatible with the biological nature of subjective identity) that one's biological sex is immutable. However, a male behaving in the received 'feminine' mode of his culture is no more or less 'legitimate' as a male than if he behaves in the received 'masculine' mode of his culture. Whether it is culturally correct to call such a man a 'woman' and apply feminine pronouns is arbitrary, although it is worth noting that such a culture would then require a new term meaning 'human female' and new pronouns meaning 'referent who appears to be male', in order for the language to retain its capability for precision.
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