Probably because businesses themselves want all their applications connected so one doing the administration is easier (and better) and there is more management information.
Then again, there are still a ton of bookkeepers and accountants (especially in the US) wasting your money on reconciling bank transactions more than once a year when the bank connector is foolproof
Stop making shit about race or skin if you want to beat racism
Some good examples from the bookkeeping/accounting industry is automating the matching of payments to the invoices and using AI to extract and process invoices.
It really depends on what people consider to be loot boxes imo, yes the traditional Tf2 once or the CSGO once which blew this hole thing open yes.
But does it stop with loot goblins in a game like Borderlands? Or does it stop with Magic the Gathering packs (which are required to play sealed/draft).
Actual gambling involves being able to lose your money and get nothing in return, with loot boxes you always get something. The predatory tactics against children need to stop, but there is no reason that an adult is allowed to gamble, but not open loot boxes.
If it just shares if you are 18+ or not or heck even if it shares my birthday idc. It’s a non realistic identifier if it is only that.
It’s way better than having to share your ID what is currently the case when you buy alcohol or drugs online or want to gamble online.
The system is not going to revolve around your ID or passport. The entire point is to make something different, we already have some systems in place that only share part of your personal info.
In NL we already have iDIN and DigiD which are only verification tools, iDIN is used for sharing your name, address, birthday and a couple other things so that would share way to much for this purpose and DigiD shares even more. iDIN uses your bank app and DigiD has it’s own app and they show you what data is shared to the site.
I wouldn’t want to use one of these things directly siince most people will not read that small list (it’s literally just one sentence plus what data is shared in words).
But if we get another app which can only be used to share our birthday it is fine imo. For me personally the year would be fine, or you can do it so it shares if you are 18 or above.
Kids shouldn’t have smartphones no, but it can he handy for a group of kinds to have at least some kind of phone. Heck even a phone without a sim can be used to call 112.
Falling off your bike and cracking your head open or breaking something or whatever. I used to bike through somewhere where not a lot of people would pass by.
Or even worse, get hit by a tractor who didn’t see you and not be found until later, which can cause permanent damage. Happened to somebody I know sadly, she is disabled for life now. Yes, the person in the tractor should have been more careful and have seen her, but you can hit somebody with one of those and not notice it.
I also never said they should use the phone to call the parents, you can also call 112 with those.
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Except that with street addresses there is such a lack of inconsistency on how they work and are written that it is funny
Yes because giving up isn’t an option
In a lot of cases yes, but things like Truenas Bitwarden are paid by enterprise users and the community versions help them with spreading word about the software and helping signal bugs etc.
Yes they can also turn to shit, but generally the consumer markt is so slim that they don;t care
Tailscale luckly isn’t in the US
Let’s hope that new EU age verification system is actually good and privacy friendly.
In NL it is so stupid, I am legally allowed to verify my age and gamble, but opening loot boxes no way.
Worst part is that loot boxes aren’t even defined as gambling yet …
And what if they get into trouble on their way home? Or the way to the bus, supermarket or whatnot?
They where in NL though, you just wheren’t allowed to have them in class. But a lot of people here cycle to school and sometimes though roads that aren’t that safe so in that case it was handy to have a mobile phone to call with.
People also use it a ton in Europe where they do not have a monopoly.
Heck even in the US they don’t have a monopoly come to think about it, Aliexpress is selling the same crap
I only use Amazon/Aliexpress/Temu etc if I don’t have a choice. Things that are so god damn specific that the normal retailers I have access to in Europe don’t have it. Specific cables or things for modding that are in gray area so retailers here don’t want to sell it etc.
But I hate everything surrounding Amazon
That’s rhe same with my iPhone 16, it just charges to 100 every so often
No, people need to stop making shit about race or skin if you want to beat racism. We are all people in the end.