Before we resort to messing with the ocean chemistry to compensate for some of the damage we’ve done by messing with the atmospheric chemistry, first let’s try not burning fossil fuels.

It’s Wab Kinew so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his intentions are noble and good. Presumably he acts out of ignorance, led to a policy he doesn’t understand by people he shouldn’t have trusted. He probably thinks the only consequences will be that children aren’t allowed to use social media and AI any more.

Youngest: A mayfly, born this morning and destined to die this evening, which landed on my nose.

Oldest: A mountain with ancient bones, eroded by the aeons to a mere hill with sides of crumbling rock.

Oh you mean humans? Well, anyone between the ages of 47 and 52 I guess.

It’s normally thought of as more of a “baby bust” but same thing really, a big whack of old people around for a while.

It’s like “zed” of course, because I’m > 30 years old. I don’t think it’s a regional thing, more of a “zoomer” thing maybe?

Mobility is a protected right and has previously been called “the heart of what it means to be a free person” by courts.

Yeah I remember reading about that and thinking it was an absolutely preposterous violation of people’s rights. Good to know there’s at least one judge who apparently agrees.

I’m not much of a fan of the NSA or anything, but that comparison seems unfair to the NSA. I imagine Palantir is more like a souped-up bullshit-ridden profit-driven Stasi.

“The cloud” is just somebody else’s computer.

If disk space is a problem, why don’t more instances delete old stuff? 99% of what’s posted doesn’t need to be archived forever.

If you routinely find that nonsensical thoughts about pedophilia are intruding while you’re in the shower, seek professional help. But there’s no need to inflict them on lemmy.

“The Crystal Maze? It’s a show that was popular before Taskmaster.”

Okay great, but steam engines from the mid 19th century could probably outrun humans too.

Not that I’m in any position to speak for an entire generation but I feel like a lot of Gen Z also can’t understand why Gen Z can’t put their phones down and watch TV like a normal person.

For a completely random example of things one might choose to learn about today, there is the distinction between “less” and “fewer.”

I was using mullvad a couple years ago. Configs didn’t change often, I updated it once or twice a year or whenever the old one stopped working.

They did have a “killswitch” type option available, I think. But it didn’t seem really useful since normally when wireguard fails (on linux at least) it does not “disconnect” — it just stops any traffic getting through until it’s working again.

You stick the config in /etc/wireguard and then it’s just wg-quick down endpoint1 ; wg-quick up endpoint2 to switch locations. (Being wary that the VPN will be down for a moment.) You can name them whatever you like of course.

Setting up DNS properly is not that hard and only needs doing once.

Also, starting.

To the extent that I could be called an anarchist, it was randomly wandering into an anarchist bookshop and reading The State: Its Historic Role which got me started.

Oh, is that what everyone’s reacting to? Just the headline? Yeah, weird that so many people were not previously aware of the basic facts of life.

I know what a zero-knowledge proof is and have read and understood a description of the well-known one relating to proof of age. That is not a sufficient explanation as to how it is applied in practice here — if indeed it is. I’ve seen it claimed elsewhere that it isn’t. But in any case it wouldn’t solve the whole problem of proving whose age it is that’s being established.

Edit to add: Upon preliminary investigation it seems like it uses OAuth in the protocol? But it is claimed that no identifying info is stored “in the app”. Does this mean that the OAuth client_id and any associated public keys are somehow kept secret from the attestation provider when you show it your passport to get the age attestation? Because otherwise it would be personally identifying info. If there’s no identifying info, is it therefore possible if you’re 12 years old to get an older kid to use their ID to get your phone age-attested and then there’s never any possibility it could be traced back to them? I just can’t make sense of it. It seems probable that the privacy claims are an illusion or a lie, but too many people seem to be swallowing them instantly and not noticing that taste.