AtHeartEngineer
@AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world
Aspiring polymath. Applied R&D @ Privacy and Scaling Explorations #maker #Ethereum🦇🔊🐼🐍🟨🦀 Trying to make the internet better. Opinions are my own and subject to change
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 days ago:
Right, I understand that perspective, but there is a way to do this with multi-party computation and some other cryptography where no one would have the actual power/be able to see the data/have control. The main issue is it’s expensive to run and no one would be incentivized to run it.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 days ago:
Not true, there are ways to do this privately with cryptography
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 days ago:
If anyone is doing actual work trying to solve this please DM me, I’m interested in helping.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 days ago:
How?
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 days ago:
Ya you could definitely do this way too. There is a standard that google came up with called private state tokens that would allow you to do this in a pretty clean way, if you were cool with using your governments portal.
Essentially you would login to the govt portal, they would issue you some limited set of tokens (let’s say 5) that would expire after 30 days. You would go to an age restricted website and sign up and that would “burn” a token.
You could use ZK on top of this to make sure that the same email address or some other “nullifier” piece of information was used, to prevent an 18 yo kid from selling their tokens to 17 yos.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 days ago:
You definitely can do this with cryptography, it’s a really hard problem, but I worked in this space for a number of years, it’s possible.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 4 days ago:
I worked in this field for 3 years, a lot of the core parts are written, but there are a few key pieces missing and no one has taken it to real production.
You can use a passport in pretty much any country and prove you’re over a certain age. Here is a demo: github.com/dog-18/dog18
The parts that are missing are primarily around making secure nullifier, which prevents someone from reusing identities, but also without revealing any private information. We were pursuing research that allowed nullifier generation in MPC where none of the servers or the users knew the “salt” that their identity was hashed with, so no one could recover the original piece of unique data (like their passport number) but it would also prevent them from signing up with multiple accounts. We got our funding cut pretty bad and management was a mess, so I left and that research I think was shut down. This really is the key part to actually make that viable in the real world though. It’s maybe a year worth of research and a year worth of production left to make that practical.
- Comment on ... 2 months ago:
That’s a wild and sensationalized statement. I know that there are enough good people to prevent trump from killing tons of civilians. Most people I know in government right now are keeping their heads down and counting the days until the mid terms. Most of the people in the military, even on the right, roll their eyes at a lot of Trump’s rhetoric. The sycophant politicians are the only ones that really grovel, and while they can pass laws, and definitely fuck the government up, they don’t give the order to pull the trigger.
In Nazi Germany they had a tight hold on propoganda, we have the internet, it’s really hard to do that now.
In the 70s there was domestic terrorism and bombings all the time and there wasn’t mass civilian casualties.
Is the insane rhetoric turned up right now? Absolutely, but there are many steps between where we are and mass civilian death by the hands of the govt.
Also, please don’t put me in any camp of trusting Trump, that’s rude.
- Comment on ... 2 months ago:
insurgency can do a lot, especially if the “developed” nation doesn’t want to level the place because it’s either their place too or will result in many civilian casualties.
A large part of the US special forces mission is training locals in insurgent/gorilla tactics. Most of the swiss defense posture is training their general population to just be familiar enough with weapons and tactics to wreck havoc on invaders, their standing army and armaments are really small.
Source: a lot of time deployed
- Comment on Too soon? 2 months ago:
That’s pretty extreme. Also you can buy a taser without training in the US, so your point doesn’t even stand.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You can make a new profile in game and replay 😉
- Comment on bird based storage 3 months ago:
Same, started following him about 6 months to a year ago and quickly became a fan
- Comment on Please tell me 4 months ago:
I am pretty sure it is, it seems ironic to me
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 4 months ago:
If he helps bump the gaming industry in a better/healthier direction, he deserves 6 figures imo
- Comment on Please tell me 4 months ago:
I normally am against outrageous branding, especially in the overly masculine or nationalistic area, but I think they are pretty solid. Good product, they lean right into the ridiculousness just enough for it to be a little comical, seem to have good messaging, and it’s just good. Expensive for what it is though.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Do you like and get along with him? Would you hang out with him outside of work if you didn’t work with him? I think that’s pretty telling. Adults can be friends, but it is important to separate work life and personal life. Enjoying sometimes time and also depending on them to eat can be messy.
If you wouldn’t want to hang out with him outside of work if you didn’t work with him, I would keep some distance/buffer. If you actually enjoy hanging out outside of work, then just be cautious but it’s probably worth getting to know them.
Hanging out with older generations, especially around people who just have a lot of life experience, is super enriching. Might learn a lot.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 5 months ago:
Came here to mention tremors. It’s my favorite cheesy 90s scifi.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 7 months ago:
Ads should be illegal
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 7 months ago:
Oof this is too accurate
- Comment on Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get? 8 months ago:
Same, I came here to comment on pretty much the same thing. I don’t care if I agree with her on points, I don’t have any respect for her, she’s shady af.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 8 months ago:
Ya probably not. I guess we may see
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 8 months ago:
Ya, I don’t think Vance would accomplish much, he definitely doesn’t have the same charisma or followers.
True, things would definitely get interesting if the US wasn’t the top power. You don’t think China and Russia would team up? Or you think thats only because “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”?
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 8 months ago:
Trump could have a heart attack tomorrow
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 8 months ago:
I wonder how the person who’s decision it was to cancel firefly feels about this now. Do you think they were under a lot of pressures because of funding, or they just weren’t that into the show, or was there a new show they wanted to divert funding to. Wonder what the story was there.
- Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by? 8 months ago:
That last season was disappointing to me
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 8 months ago:
Ya… I think that’s a really good point, a scary one
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 8 months ago:
I think the reason more people haven’t started to openly organize is mostly concerns about self preservation. This govt obviously doesn’t care about civil liberties and are openly calling anyone not with them “the enemy”. It becomes much harder to publicly and civily organize if there is a substantial chance you’ll be branded a terrorist organization. That’s obviously just my take from my perspective.
- Comment on .world censorship? 8 months ago:
Should this censoring be pushed to the client side? That way users can choose what they want filtered.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 8 months ago:
I’ve had a Subaru CVT for 10+ years with over 200k miles no issues
- Comment on Ads are a plague 8 months ago:
I’d love to be able to even just see if the doors are locked without a monthly fee.
The USB c connection is on the passenger side of the screen in the top right corner, so doing wired Android auto is pretty annoying