This sounds like OpenID with extra steps. A signed JWT could serve the same purpose without reinventing the wheel and inherit all privacy and scope controls out of the box. For example, a site can send a userid and challenge that I hash before authorising my identity provider to attach a signed age attestation to. Provider can't see the hash contents and the site only gets to see the pre-verified age in the JWT and nothing else identifiable (could even be a regional yes/no of-age value or content flags).

All that said, you'd be hard pressed to find any company that wouldn't immediately regect something that could not be collected, sold, or abused. The law was never about the children in the first place and they're not about to have a change of heart on that any time soon.

It's not even a competition thing anymore. It's corporate ecosystem lock-in and humanity's aversion to change even if it means staying in the most abusive techno-fascist relationships in recorded history. If the bar of entry to Linux was lowered into the floor with an objectively better experience, people still won't switch until something forces them to.

"Fight on piracy legal emulation and digital preservation"

Let's not give credence to their BS excuse for destroying decades of gaming history. Emulators have never been illegal and even Nintendo themselves has repeatedly stolen them for profit.

The laws were never meant for children or whoever they put on paper, and they will absolutely not show their hand in its real purpose so soon. Let's not forget that the US, UK, and AU are part of the Five Eyes and will absolutely share the linked IDs they're collecting. AU openly admitted the law was not effective as did every expert on the matter, but won't repeal it anyway.

A recent example of this covert repurposing was the GDID in Microsoft supposedly for (ineffective) DRM that was conveniently capable of de-anonymising Windows users at the whim of authorities.

It's never been about what they say they're doing, but rather what they could do to abuse that capability, and that's what has people up in arms.

No no. If you read between the lines, they didn't explicitly say no. They only insinuated he hasn't met the criteria under international law yet... But they do acknowledge the assholery.

Unfortunately that hasn't been unique to Reddit. Outrage, hate, and conspiracies generate clicks and engagement on platforms. Recent events within the last decade gave rise to a lot of coordinated hate campaigns. User created subreddits were a double edge sword for this in both being able to filter out these groups but also giving them their own echo chambers to congregate and embolden one another. The transition from liberal freedom of speech to absolutionist right to hatred made social media companies millions simultaneously in accepting money to promote controversial topics and harvesting the resulting outrage on their platforms. Reddit and their staff effectively became one of many internet war profiteers giving all sides bases of operations.

To end on a semi-positive note, with the rise of federated services, instances may still give these extremists places to seethe but they can at least be 'sanctioned' or defederated from the rest of the larger fediverse very easily.

This approach only works in daylight with cameras that rely on colour only. Infrared spectrum cameras such as what Australia uses on mobile phone traffic cameras are much harder to deal with. Patterns don't cut it and it's a huge part of military research into hiding vehicles from infrared spotters.

Disabling the cameras entirely is much more effective.

As much as I agree the 30% cut can be a bit steep, I do appreciate that part of it is going into ongoing R&D like Steam Deck and Proton benefiting the whole gaming industry. I'd like to think of it like Valve are investing into PC innovation similarly to the way Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo do for their new consoles.

Not that it matters anymore. GN summarised it best stating that we're already long past the point where the extortionate prices matter to even enthusiast consumers who wouldn't buy this shit at 3x MSRP anyway. Even prebuilts are selling empty case 'kits' to keep inventory moving.

It's the new rise of CEOs and millionaires seeking to milk the internet to the last fractional dime. Leave morals and critical thinking at the door. Every major company is doing this now, shutting out everything even remotely capable of being scraped into a LLM and paywalling what used to be free to satisfy post-covid shareholders. Accessibility be damned, line must go up.

Beyond that we have Google crippling the Android and Chromium open source code, Youtube blocking user accounts using adblock, Twitch banning sponsor spots who sidestep their pockets, and of course all of them are doubling down on AI with massive amounts of corporate sponsored IP theft and data laundering on an incompressible scale, suffocating any human content (see the Amazon book crisis).

Running that much power next to a data line sounds like a terrible idea for signal integrity, especially if something shorts to said data lines. It just sounds sketchy or filled with so many asterisks that it's functional impossible to reach their claimed throughput.

Yet another article written in bad faith, twisting the narrative, and parroting ESA talking points. SKG explicitly stated that their goals are not retroactive. None of these games would even be affected by the change. It only applies to NEW games which could include such accommodations in the planning phase.

They can try but without the moderation tools at the core of the issue, the subs will be inundated with bot spam till it dies. There will never be enough admins with free time to replace all the unpaid moderators let alone their knowledge. Not to mention doing a hostile takeover of subs without any understanding of each community's values will serve only to piss off more people.

Besides cashing out a dying platform, there is no winning for Reddit if they keep this up.

Through a low tech social engineering attack referred to as SIM Jacking, an attacker can have your number moved to their SIM card, redirecting all SMS 2FA codes effectively making the whole thing useless as a security measure. Despite this, companies still implement it out of both laziness and to collect phone numbers (which is often why SMS MFA is forced)

How else are they going to milk their talentless techbro cash cows? Can't have China popping that imaginary wealth bubble now can we. /s

We have truly distilled humanity's confident stupidity into its most efficient form.

Yep. There is a metric fuckton of tampering across the board, some of which is sub specific.

It's the same kind of things they pulled with WatchRedditDie a long time ago but now it's site wide with little to no subtlety. The rules are imaginary and meaningless, more so than they already were.

But they did such a great job of feeding the world's most problematic corporations government IDs and photo identification of minors and storing it in databases ripe for hackers.

Brought to you by the government whose national health network failed its security audit last year, and had 13 million records breached through a 3rd party the year before that.

My tinfoil hat theory is that this instance is less a cashgrab and more an attack from AI slopbros to drown out criticism their billionaire overlords.

Really keen to sit down and read this book though.

This plus constantly running out of ammo because apparently the inside of every enemy skull is just hammerspace for more ammunition than the US military budget could ever afford. God forbid a stray shot hits your porcelain character, Thanos snapping you to dust at so much as a stubbed toe.