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I’ve been thinking of possible ways that you could prove you’re of legal age to access a site through a government service without the government being able to know who the user is, and I can’t really come up with a clean solution.

The best idea that came to my mind was that you could e.g. have a challenge system where the government service challenges the user to return an encrypted randomly generated value. Each user has e.g. an AES key assigned to them that corresponds to the year they were born in, e.g. everyone born in the year 2000 has the same encryption key in ther ID card, and they just use that to return an answer to the challenge. The government website can know all of the secret keys and just check if it can unencrypt the result with the correct one. This means that the government service won’t know anything about the user other than their year of birth, but can confirm their age.

Now two main problems are that, as everyone with the same year of birth has the same key, it could be possible to somehow leak one key and make it so that anyone can pretend to be born at that age, but considering this is for kids, exploiting that sort of problem is probably enough of a barrier to use. Another problem is that this would require you to scan your ID card with every use. Maybe you could accomplish this with a mobile app but idk if that’s possible to do in the same way.

Yeah but literally nobody does the cleaning the tank thing and it’s usually fine.

I personally picked Mailfence, but I saw both runbox and mailfence are really good. Tho Mailfence is a bit more expensive

Hah, jokes on them, I managed to fuck my earbuds’ microphones so they’re useless now.

I love this new arc of pewds, unimaginably based. I’m actually interested in watching his videos now after a looong time. The last three tech related ones were great.

Gotta also recommended porkbun for a registrar, had a great experience with then.

Regarding resolution, I’ve been using my S21 Ultra at FHD quality (2400x1080) since I got it and it has a significantly large screen. I don’t see a point in higher resolutions but I definitely appreciate higher refresh rates. Makes it feel smoother and more responsive.

A time of flight sensor for autofocus

Interesting that they seem to be using a consumer grade Snapdragon chip this time, typically they used weird chips ment for industry applications if I’m not mistaken. Wonder what sparked the change, did Qualcomm start supporting their chips for longer?

I mean Waymo is way better at their job than Tesla and are more responsible, but this rant makes them out to seem perfectly safe. Whilst they are miles safer than Tesla, they still struggle with edge cases and aren’t perfect.

Idk man, I’ve seen hundreds of examples showcasing how they significantly reduce bot traffic. The point isn’t to make it impossible for a bot to get past it, it’s to make it so expensive per request that it’s not worth it.

I see a lot of people saying it’s time to switch to Signal, and I mean I agree in principle, it’s my main messaging app, but I don’t see how it can scale. It runs off of donations and the only reason it’s still functioning is because the users that are there are above averagely passionate about it and willing to donate. If it became the defacto messaging app I fear that there is no way they would be capable of financing that level of traffic.

Because SMS is trash, most of Europe doesn’t use iPhones and WhatsApp was one of the first messaging apps, so yeah.

I mean, for spear fishing or doing literally anything under water it’s very helpful. I have a friend who regularly spear fishes and it’s very important that he can spend a long time at the ocean floor without moving so he can catch fish off guard.

Here’s the translated Croatian article:

An incredible Guinness World Record was set in Opatija – Vitomir Maričić held his breath for an astonishing 29 minutes and 3 seconds, leaving both the audience and experts amazed. This is one of the most demanding records, lying at the intersection of sports, medicine, and science.

The record dive was performed after several minutes of preparation and breathing pure oxygen. The entire attempt was monitored by five judges and an official team to ensure the result was valid according to Guinness rules.

“Today it was really hard for me to dive; yesterday it was easier, but after the 20th minute, everything became easier – at least mentally,” said Maričić.

The feat is part of the Fit for the Ocean campaign, which raises funds for the organization Sea Shepherd, known for its fight against illegal fishing. Maričić used the opportunity to highlight the importance of ocean conservation and the need for informed action from all of us.

I didn’t know those mini dishwashers existed, really cool.

I’ve literally never seen of heard of a dishwasher that has this, what model do you have?

Tbf we could use it

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DUDE, can we just like, stop, for a moment?