Quicky

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[–] Quicky@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

No you don't, but like I say, I'm talking about the majority of users.

Again though, and I'm copying this from a previous response, I think it's worth remembering that this is a suggestion, and not even originally mine. If you're happier to use the current multitude of age verification services that differ on a per-site basis, with all the security vulnerabilities, risk, and inconvenience that entails, then feel free. Or bypass them using the methods suggested.

I'm literally just providing a better technical solution than has been implemented. What I'm not suggesting is "this is the answer to everyone's problem".

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The difficulty you might end up with there is governments not permitting their age verification system for certain sites if they desired. Meaning even greater governmental control of what sites you can access.

[–] Quicky@piefed.social -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There absolutely is a minimum age requirement to set up a Google account, which you can see from their Ts & Cs. Whether that is enforced is an entirely different question.

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Jesus Christ, no, I'm not suggesting that nothing changes from exactly what we do now. I'm suggesting a new, more secure, less intrusive method, and it's not even an original suggestion. Just try a little bit of thought.

If it's going to be implemented by law anyway, the age verification should be at the device level. The device accounts already do ask your age - directly or indirectly - although it's not stringently enforced, however each of the big 3 already have a minimum age requirement to set up an account as per their terms and conditions.

It's not a big leap to suggest that true age verification is done at that point seeing as you already often have to provide an age or payment information to set up on-device payment details, meaning there's no need to involve a third party at any other subsequent point.

[–] Quicky@piefed.social -2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I mean, great? Most mainstream devices do however, whether it's an AppleID, Google account or Microsoft account.

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As we've seen, the current system is incredibly easy to bypass. There are plenty of ways to game or avoid the age checks.

The current implementation also uses multiple different age verification services, on a per-site basis. This proposed one reduces data exposure vulnerabilities to a fraction.

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm not getting involved in the politics or reasoning of the assumed end goal, I'm just talking from a technical standpoint.

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Whether or not that's the case, I think the proposed technical implementation above is a better way of enforcing the actual law than what's been applied so far.

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (21 children)

I've seen this suggested elsewhere and it seems like the least intrusive suggestion to me - why not simply use the device as the age verification. Almost every phone/tablet/computer already knows your age through it's own sign-up/activation method, so why not allow the device to offer an API that provides age verification to sites that require it.

It could simply be a permissions-based answer where an adult site requests a yes/no answer to the question "is this user an adult" from the device and the user is prompted to provide the permissions for the site to have that data.

This would solve the problem for the vast majority of iphone/android/windows/macos consumers.

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 18 points 5 days ago

Unions (in the UK at least) often provide financial support for striking workers so the money needs to come from somewhere.

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My favourite meme I've seen suggested it was a deliberate ploy to increase brand recognition. Obviously not true but it would have been incredible work from the marketing team if it was.

[–] Quicky@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cheating CEO of Astronomer caught on kiss cam at Coldplay concert with his HR chief. Their hearts will not go on.

Side note, I’m amazed you’ve missed the memes. Seems to be every third one on my feed.

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Tina (the fat lard) was a llama, but this alpaca I saw today really reminded me of Napoleon Dynamite.

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Rematch (piefed.social)
 

I’m enjoying this a lot, despite being absolutely horrendous at it. I think once Sloclap push out a few fixes to what is still currently a glorified beta it’s got the potential to be the new Rocket League, which has been my go-to game for the last decade.

That said, I’m having an absolute mare with the controls. Not so much how to control my player, but in terms of the sheer panic when I’ve got the ball and other players are bearing down on me. My fingers go to shit and I rarely pull off what I was attempting.

Anyone else having fun with the game, while also being terrible at it?

 

The teat-owl.

 

When I was about 12 I had a maths lesson on Friday afternoons at school. Towards the end of term, I remember my teacher dumping a pile of holiday brochures on his desk and setting the class the task of planning and costing up a holiday. This was pre-Internet, so brochures and travel agents were how you did it back then.

Location, flights, hotel, meals, activities, excursions, hire cars, spending money etc all had to be considered for a family of three on a fixed budget. I remember that the submitted work was never actually marked since there was no "correct" answer, and the reasoning behind it was essentially to get experience of planning and budgeting. A great application of numeracy skills for a real-world task.

These days simplified versions of that exercise are relatively common for teachers to give to pupils but as we discovered the following term, what we were actually doing was literally planning his summer holiday with his family because he couldn't be arsed. He'd crowd-sourced his research.

Absolute genius of the man.

 

The app’s looking great, but I’ve got a couple of questions:

  1. What is the difference between the three options within Settings > Feed Defaults > View. There’s Threads, Microblog and Timeline options, but I can’t see what effect they have on the feed.

  2. When viewing comments, some replies are shown and nested, but others require tapping Open x replies. What determines whether a reply is shown automatically or needs a tap to open?

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