@Em0nM4stodon - here's a tarot reading for you Will efforts to educate people about the dangers of age verification bear any fruit?https://taru.guru/shared_reading/1626/5f6f0285-6917-4e15-a911-d66f7cc61e18

@ErikJonker "Legitimate interest" is their favorite catch-all phrase. The Austrian credit rating company Kreditschutzverband has a full history of all addresses I have ever lived at (at least those in Austria). When I asked them to delete it, their lawyers sent me a letter stating that they have legitimate interest. #ksv1870

@kaosk @realn2s @PC_Fluesterer @bsletten where does this state Discord won't be using it..? I didn't spot it

@mysk Do commas work differently in the uk…

@cpunkIch glaube, das sieht noch nicht ganz richtig aus Ich habe mal gelesen, dass sich Tor-Server erst einen Ruf erarbeiten müssen, damit sie überhaupt für das Routing berücksichtigt werden.

@capitainesam Don't use biometrics to unlock phones. Police and criminals can grab your hand or aim the phone at your face to unlock your phone regardless of your wishes. They have to ask you for password/PIN; they don't have to ask to simply stick your finger on the phone screen or point the phone at your face.

@GF493D @alex_mastodon @Em0nM4stodon @thelocalstack @doekman @FurryBeta @annehargreaves I won't disagree. I will note that authoritarianism is on the rise, which fits your argument, and the correlation that I pointed out may not be causation. Maybe AI has little to do with it. But looking through all the companies involved with the verification in the original post, AI is at least involved.I don't know. What I do know is that the effect sucks.

@Em0nM4stodon Check out the list of companies that can access ALL OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA through the most popular facial tracking company, Persona:https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116103192779110422

@Distort2533 @Scofisticated ur requirements? Completely offline or some cloud bse apps.

@Tutanota I'm Aussie and actively helping my young teens navigate not giving over their pii for social accounts. The implementation is laughable for now, much like the censorship of websites via DNS.

@ShiroTechGuy Huh?

@NoraBell@pleroma.snowebell.cc That’s an incredible journey! For me, it’s always been about that spark of curiosity, from writing my first simple script to managing a hundred Docker containers.There’s a quote that perfectly captures this drive: "At some point you touched a computer and the computer did what you wanted... and you realized that you were a god. A small god in a very small world, but inside that world you were a god."I think that’s the best explanation for why we do this. The keyboard gives us a way to shape reality. We build our own worlds to regain the freedom that is being taken away from us.