atrielienz
@atrielienz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Facial age checks are now required to chat with anyone on Roblox 3 days ago:
Honestly? It’ll probably be an amalgamation of different tech to do it. That’s at least part of the reason I’m not sure it should work. Using identity to certify age or age gate products in this way when so much data is being collected already about users kind of doesn’t make sense in and of itself. It either leads to a database of data that’s dangerous to store, or it leads to government entities using such services to spy on people. Or both.
If the data that’s already out there about me being collected by data brokers can’t prove what age I am (and it absolutely can even when it’s anonymized) then I suspect no other system by itself will work. Because really what were talking about here is four things.
- Linking access to age verification.
- Linking identity to age verification.
- Anonymizing that data so the service/or anyone with access can’t store it or use it for anything other than age verification.
- Verifying that the person who device/token/certificate/verified medium is linked to is the person using the device.
So, say you were to use the block chain method. And say the device was verified. How would I verify it’s me using the device (me being the person who certified their age via block chain or some other method). What prevents me from unlocking the device and handing it to my kid? What prevents my kid from using the device without my knowledge (circumventing the password etc).
That’s at least part of the reason Roblox want to use facial recognition to verify users. But how often are we doing that check? Once isn’t enough. It’s not a hard barrier to cross. And say it’s twice, three times. Once a week. Say you use AI generated pictures to bypass that. Then Roblox or the service they contract with for verification has to maintain a database and compare pictures to each other etc.
Databases can be hacked. That information can be stolen. And linked to driver’s licenses, used for reverse image searches etc. If you or your child has ever posted a picture to the internet etc that can be used against you or your kid. It could be used to verify further accounts outside your control etc.
Following this to it’s logical conclusion you’d need to use a combination of things. Something you have (yubikee or some kind of authenticator, ID, credit card). There’s nothing stopping a person from selling this with the account credentials.
Something you know (password, passphrase etc). The account credentials to be sold.
Something you can’t change about yourself (iris scan, fingerprint, voice clip, etc). The dangerous to store information that when leaked or breached would cause damage to the life of the user in question.
Someone somewhere is going to need to keep a record of that to prove you are you which means it can’t by design be anonymous. And it means that there’s a database and it there that’s dangerous to the users but had to be maintained for the purpose of authentication. And that’s why this doesn’t work.
- Comment on Facial age checks are now required to chat with anyone on Roblox 5 days ago:
There’s nothing to stop them selling that email address with cert.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
One of the articles I linked you to had not just Steam but other payment processors talking about it.
So are we talking about Steam making statements about why they refused to accept the game Horses on their platform, or are we talking about payment processors? Because the thread you started responding to me in is the one about payment processors and as a result that is the vein in which my responses have been directed. And since news outlets have been very outspoken about the likelihood that Horses was refused due to payment processors pressuring Steam to better adhere to their Terms for content sold, it was reasonable to assume that that’s what you meant.
If you would like to talk about Steam’s removal of other games, or you would like to talk about Horse’s rejection specifically, you’re going to have to say so.
Microsoft isn’t selling products on GitHub. They bought it to have control over open source projects and code.
Even if they were going to sell ad space that’s still not the same conversation as the one about payment processors. At best the only similarity might just be that MS might find porn content to be detrimental to their image. Because that’s the BS reason payment aggregators gave for not allowing porn content every time this has come up.
But MS has been disallowing nudity, pornography, and other adult content on their products and ad aggregation service for more than a decade now. So either this was house keeping, it was an afterthought, or someone complained. And considering just how little MS cares about the complaints of consumers and consumer groups normally, I doubt it’s the latter.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
What you said and what you meant were two different things.
The wording of the OG comment original comment absolutely lent itself to conspiracy theory level inference that it was steams fault.
They not only didn’t actually answer the questions I asked. They claimed “nobody is talking about it” which is demonstrably not true.
Further, they went out of their way to play what about blah, but didn’t give and explaination of how that related to the conversation being had or their original point.
Then you show up with language that could be taken one of two ways, and when I respond with proof from what I took from what you said “I now have reading comprehension problems” because you "didn’t mean what they said in relation to payment processors (which only entered the conversation because one person who was not the OG commenter brought it up), and I continued the conversation in that vein.
So either you chose to answer me on the wrong part of the thread, or it’s your own fault you were misunderstood.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
So, when pornhub had problems with payment processors it wasn’t pornhubs fault they had to remove content.
But when steam removes some content because payment processors won’t let them take payment for that content it’s steams fault. Have I got that right?
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
That’s a conspiracy theory with a whole heaping of whataboutism.
And the other guy who I blocked can suck my left nut. I blocked you because you added nothing at all to the conversation and I wasn’t interested in talking to you.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
Tell me very specifically what that has to do with Steam?
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
Microsoft went and changed the TOS for GitHub intentionally to remove this content. Valve hasn’t made changes to the TOS to exclude sexual content. They specifically never allowed sexual content that included minors in sexual situations.
Those are not the same thing.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
This smells suspiciously similar to the stuff affecting adult content on Steam, like Horses.
With this sentence you basically implied that Steam is removing or not allowing porn games.
You never in any of your comments mentioned payment processors. If that’s what you meant, that’s what you should have said.
You also claimed nobody was talking about it when literally everybody everywhere was talking about it when the news first dropped. So much so that Mastercard made a statement about it.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
Again. This wasn’t on steam it was on the literally payment providers who forced the issue. If steam can’t accept payment for your game, of course they’re going to delist it. That’s not what he said. He said steam is trying to clear porn games.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
They did elaborate though. They explained that the game had depictions of children with adults in sexual situations and the game developer removed one scene and paid some lip service about how they were just small adults. Steam didn’t buy into that and wouldn’t allow the game on the platform which is a reasonable take.
Would you like to give the names of specific other porn games involving children in sexual situations? I would like to see that list because I’m pretty sure it violates the law in several places.
You seem to be suggesting that Horses got treated differently for invalid or incomprehensible reasons and that isn’t true from literally every article I’ve seen reporting on the situation.
GOG is based out of Poland, and I’m sure Polish law absolutely does cover children in sexual situations in media.
But we also don’t know what the developer went on to change in the game since it was submitted to Steam with acception of the part highlighted by Steam specifically when they denied it.
This developer may have gone on to change several things that clear the bar in Poland but not everywhere else.
In any case you speculated that Steam might be trying to clear porn games from the platform in your initial comment (or inferred such) and one game doesn’t validate that claim.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 1 week ago:
Go on then. Talk about it. Which other games besides Horses (the feature adult content) have been removed from or not allowed to launch on Steam? Because that platform is full of porn games and the Horses thing was about sexual themes involving minors.
- Comment on Aldo Leopold was right. 1 week ago:
I think Team Cherry might have read this excerpt.
- Comment on The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription 1 week ago:
This is likely the fault of the pill manufacturer who the pharmacy is at the mercy of.
- Comment on Shout out to the NYE shift at all the Emergency Departments around the world. 2 weeks ago:
I hope one of these id my neighbor who was illegally setting off fireworks for 3 hours after the new year started.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 2 weeks ago:
I think the reason it’s sold so many copies is because it’s been on perpetual sale everywhere. People were majorly against buying it and that dampened some people’s interest initially but when the game is $5, a lot of people will buy it just because it’s cheap.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 2 weeks ago:
Animal Crossing was a birthday gift. And technically Stadia refunded my money for Cyberpunk.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 2 weeks ago:
It’s crazy that I only own two of these games and they couldn’t be more different. Animal Crossing and Cyberpunk 2077.
- Comment on That's ok, I don't want to see the shop anymore anyway. 2 weeks ago:
I use reader mode pretty often on news websites. That’s the main use case for me.
- Comment on That's ok, I don't want to see the shop anymore anyway. 2 weeks ago:
Mostly this is for sites I click on links to that do paywall banners honestly. That’s what I use it for. Most of the places I go to I could exclude or whitelist and be fine.
- Comment on That's ok, I don't want to see the shop anymore anyway. 2 weeks ago:
I should do this. This is an amazing idea.
- Comment on The Ritual Shaming of the Woman at the Coldplay Concert 2 weeks ago:
No. No. I think you misunderstood. I’m not saying people should have ill will toward her. I’m saying that the ill will is an expected part of how society functions when a person gets notoriety for doing something wrong.
If she had been outed by the papers in a less public way, people she doesn’t know who we’re not affected by her actions would still be judging her.
Most people would judge the average person who got caught cheating if they knew about it.
She had to know going into her relation with a married man that there was the potential to get caught. She had to know it would be unlikely to receive anything but vitriol from people who’ve been cheated on. She went along with it anyway.
There’s a possibility that because of the power dynamic between her and a man who was her boss, she was taken advantage of. That’s why I brought up and compared her to Monica Lewinsky. However I don’t have energy to waste on worrying about what ifs.
I don’t follow the story and didn’t even really remember her until this post popped up. I can’t even tell you what her name is without googling it. I’d wager most people are equally ambivalent. It’s most likely a very loud minority of people who remember and are giving her shit about this.
- Comment on The Ritual Shaming of the Woman at the Coldplay Concert 2 weeks ago:
If she were a celebrity would we feel the same?
Because really what it comes down to is she knowingly helped a high profile person cheat and got caught. I’m not saying she deserves it. I’m not saying it’s a good thing. To me this is on par with the whole Monica Lewinsky thing.
I personally bear this woman no ill will. But I also don’t really think we should be expected to have empathy for something she did to herself because she couldn’t think ahead to what the potential repercussions of her actions were.
- Comment on The Ritual Shaming of the Woman at the Coldplay Concert 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the thing. She knew. And while it’s none of my business, if you’re going to cheat, you gotta be prepared to be caught and shamed. Humans being what they are.
- Comment on Handheld PC reviews only cover Asus and Lenovo. 3 weeks ago:
Wulfden on YouTube does quite a few reviews of these handhelds, especially niche ones. Might be worth checking out.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 3 weeks ago:
They do this because it allowed them to track how often you shop and what you normally buy. This helps them to manage their stock, keeping popular items that regular shoppers buy in stock etc.
The way it normally works though is that the item is $1.99 but if you have their club card or member card the item is $1.50.
This means you save money in exchange for allowing them to track your shopping habits.
Don’t get me wrong. There are a lot of … We’ll call them questionable reasons why business want to track your shopping habits, and that tracking doesn’t necessarily stop as just tracking what you buy.
But it was never meant to be item is less expensive but you only get the less expensive price if you have their card. It was supposed to be, we’ll give you a deal on said item if you let us track you in exchange.
- Comment on Windows copying Mac feature, but only in certain apps 4 weeks ago:
There have been versions of windows where this wasn’t completely possible out of the box (looking at you windows ME). I was referring to when it was a native windows feature, no extra software of any kind involved. And you didn’t have to program hotkeys or anything.
- Comment on Windows copying Mac feature, but only in certain apps 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if this is a holdover from when you could navigate windows completely without a mouse using only the keyboard and shortcuts.
Obviously there might be some overlap between some keyboard shortcuts (and a very much targeted use of Apple’s shortcuts for certain programs that MS has ported to Mac). So office/365 programs get Mac shortcuts and everything else is using Windows standard shortcuts built up over time. There’s not reason for a mac user to use Windows version of notepad.
Either way, truly a mildly infuriating niglet so my upvote is yours.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I saw. There were a lot of complaints from consumers about the features that existed in the 3DS/other DS’s that didn’t exist in the switch including this one. And even then I think those people have to be your actual friends on the switch 2 rather than just random people.