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- Comment on Anon solves mental health 3 days ago:
Cock and ball torture?
- Comment on Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'? 4 days ago:
Not sure if there are tar pits with dinosaur bones but there are bones (not petrified bones) of post-dinosaur megafauna like sabertooths in the La Break tar pit in Los Angeles. There probably exists a real dinosaur bone somewhere on the planet.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 1 week ago:
Both of those are screwed over by the healthcare system and the companies perpetrating it. If you cant afford healthcare or don’t understand it because it is to convoluted, that is a result of the policies of healthcare providers.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 1 week ago:
But that is also the worst part of boarderlands
- Comment on We've done it, boys 1 week ago:
Linux is famously both American and Corporate /s
But yeah sytsem76 and valve are both american and valve is corporate. And around Lemmy you would think they are the only ones responsible for the Linux boom.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 weeks ago:
The verifier does not have the information which sites you use. That’s the point of the setup. All communication goes through you, never the site to the verifier directly. You only pass cryptographic values between them that does not include identifiable information (neither about you to the website, nor about the website to the verifier). The verifier knows who you are, the website knows that you are old enough. Nothing else.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 weeks ago:
There is no system in the world that can fully prevent an authorized user to grant access to an unauthorized user. Even with an all time on camera and screensharing I can still find ways to have someone else control my computer while I “authorize” the connection with my face in the camera
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 weeks ago:
Super easy. Technology has existed for quite some time and was already used in the encrpytion of web traffic.
Basically: you sign up with your “age verification institution” (ideally a service of your government because they have your ID anyway and no profit motive). This involves createing a private key (reaaaaaaaaaaly long password that is saved in a file on your device) and saving the public key with that institution. They also check your ID to ensure your identity and your age.
When you want to visit a 18+ website, the website sends you a nonce (loooooong random number). You take that nonce and send it to the verifier, along with a signature of your private key (and the age they want you verified against). The verifier verifies your signature using your public key. They then sign the nonce with their own private key, thereby verifying, that you, the owner of your private key (whos identity and age they have verified) are above the asked age theshould. You then send the signed nonce back to the 18+ website and they can verifiy the signature to confirm that a trusted age verifier has verified your age.
The site never has access to your identity and the verifier never knows which site you visited, only that you wanted to visit a website that wants to know if you are of a certain age.
(The corresponding technology was used for OCSP Stapling in TLS verification … and has been discontinued last year because nobody was using it …)
- Comment on Obama's got jokes 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, the next Democratic president might actually deserve one if they stop the active fashist takeover of democracy. Even if they do nothing else and continue all current wars etc. Not being Trump could probably save thousands if not millions of lives.
- Comment on Amazing 2 weeks ago:
Thats because the US is used to MM DD YY thats why the US talks like MM DD YY thats why its intuitive to you to use DD MM YY thats why …
There is no inherent “intuitiveness” to it. Its intuitive if you grew up with it and you use it. It is unintuitive if you didn’t.
- Comment on Amazing 2 weeks ago:
Its intuitive to people used to MM DD YY people and unintuitive to everyone else.
Today is the 24th of November.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 weeks ago:
Skyrim has a collectible item that is found in a main story area that is only accessible once. Its a very early mission and in one of the last thief’s guild quests they will tell you to get that item. That might be 200h after you did that main quest …
Good thing modding exists
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 weeks ago:
I think in cyberpunk its because cars use a separate control set that can/has to be separately rebound. Its so you can use a joystick for driving and a gamepad for walking
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 3 weeks ago:
I think the “men evil”, “woman good” is just worded to strongly but is generally true (not actually true, but people considered it to be true).
Its more “men dangerous”, “men threatening” and not “evil”. A man in a women’s bathroom is a threat. A women in a mans bathroom is there because there was a line for the woman’s bathroom. The actual reason for those scenarios does not matter, the man will be seen as an invasion and a perpetrator. I have personally experienced examples of neutral situations as well (going to the woman’s bathroom as a man without negative reactions) but the general discourse about the topic is pretty clear.
- Comment on challenge 3 weeks ago:
Every broken doorhinge can be bypassed in two ways. Fix it. Or break it more.
- Comment on It's all relative 3 weeks ago:
Meth is an excellent weight loss food.
- Comment on Maybe there's seagulls, maybe they're just crazy 3 weeks ago:
Food and silence = 100% of seaguls harass you Food and screaming = some seagulls will leave you alone but never all
- Comment on Every time 4 weeks ago:
For most people wasp=yellow jacket. And Yellow jackets are never frendly. Just sometimes “not outright aggressive”.
I like to ignore them and give them a chance to retreat in peace. If they fly to close to my face though, I will single strike, closed fist, punch them in the head (while flying, not mash them against the wall). It disorients them so much they just fly away. Never got stung while doing it, 100% success rate if I hit them.
- Comment on Not impressed 4 weeks ago:
Exactly! Everyone in this tread is hating on people that just learned a different “truth”. In 50 years everyone here will be wrong about something as fundamental as the animal kingdom and insist on being right. Science advances and previous truths become false.
There is also the aspect of biological classification not being very useful for everyday live. Do people go “uhm actachully biologically fish don’t exist” every time they see a meal advertised as “fish …”. People can have a concept of “animal” that is different from the taxonomy. And classifying mammals+reptiles+amphibian(+birds) as something different than fish and different than insects is a pretty reasonable classification (based on phenotype and not on phylogeny)
- Comment on Try again 4 weeks ago:
Or maybe a mexican jewish vampire?
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 4 weeks ago:
Bots will simply join the biggest instances. The only solution would be to defederate the main instances and have everyone pretty much host their own server.
the user base will consolidate to fewer and fewer popular instances that are able to address the spam.
You spin me right round, baby, right round 🎶🎶
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 4 weeks ago:
And if everybody hosts their own server, than so will the advertisers and everybody will have to defederate then individually making the problem of moderation even worse.
- Comment on owo 4 weeks ago:
Thats what discrete means (in an mathematical context)
- Comment on Andrew Windsor could face private prosecution, Republic says 1 month ago:
But what is the crown estate? Is it money the royals produce by their work that wouldn’t exist without them? Or is it capital gains and land ownership that could also just belong to the country directly meaning the goverment would get 100% and not have to pay the sovereign Grant?
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 month ago:
Yes that is what I do. I treat them like any other dish I use for eating. The side that touches the food gets scrubbed (also the other side im not gross). And every time I bought metal straws they came with a brush.
I also just love the feeling of metal straws when drinking cold drinks because they also get cold. The drink just feels colder if the straw is also cold
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 month ago:
Yeah the price for rent should be the amortized cost of upkeep/renovation + some salary to the landlord that is reasonable for the actually work done (which is usually very little).
It should never be enough to pay back a loan the landlord took out to buy the property in the first place.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
I also noticed how every post just has 5-10 random down votes. Like perfectly fine post in the correct community, not controversial, no rules broken, -10 down votes.
- Comment on Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription? 1 month ago:
Every game with a billion Dollar budget like battlefield will have a turd like EA attached.
If you want to be morally superior and boycott them you will have to make some drawbacks in production quality. No game by an Indie or AA studio can be “almost exactly like battlefield”.
- Comment on Chicken banana 2 months ago:
All big companies have walked over corpses. But not many have taken control of and enslaved countries like Chiquita.
They are advanced level evil dickheads.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 months ago:
Seems i have to be the autist in this thread and complain about that map. How is that a fair split if D contains 50% of the human population while A has barely 200mil.
Why is it centered on Italy? Why so far north? Any slice going north just touches 2-4 countries while the ones going south can have 30?
I guest there isnt a place to put the center that would weight all sectors equally but cmon this is just lazy