Linux Mint on desktop, laptop, and home server. Doesn’t hurt to have the full install on the server, and I have a monitor hooked up anyway - but makes maintenance easier with everything the same distro. Batocera on the retro gaming pc.

Android on phone, but if there was a distro for my phone I would use Linux there too. F-droid for apps where possible, but Play store for some essentials.

I wasn’t thinking in detail, just addressing an assumption I think a lot of age verification discussions include, which is that the verifier would have to be trusted to maintain some sort of account for you, retaining your data etc.

I have no idea what the legislation says, but I’d be a happier privacy-conscious user if the verification platforms were independent (i.e. not in any other data business) and regulated, with a requirement they don’t retain my personal data at all (like the liquor store example)

So the verifier gathers data from you, matches it with a request from the platform, provides confirmation that some standard has been met, and deletes almost all personal information - I acknowledge that this may not rise to the double-blind standard of the original request

Edited to add:

• you don’t have to ‘buy’ a token, the platform needs to pay verifiers as a cost of business

• some other comments are asking how you prevent the verifier knowing the platform - to my mind you don’t, instead the verifier retains a request id record from the platform, but forgets entirely who you are

A joke answer, but with the kernel of truth - IRL age verification often requires a trusted verifier (working under threat of substantial penalty) but often doesn’t require that verifier to maintain any documentation on individual verification actions

https://chinwag.au/verification/

I found the same about engagement - every post had 5000 comments but only the top 100 could generate actual conversation, everyone else might as well be talking to themselves

I browse by new, so I often see the spam advertising and bad faith garbage (Logic_&_Ethics anyone?) so I just block liberally

I literally don’t know what I’m missing

ETA: I also don’t have a language set, so if I see a foreign language community with no English posts or comments I’ll just block it

2 instances

175 users

515 communities

I thought reading The Grapes of Wrath was like watching Requiem for a Dream - I’m glad I did it once, and I will never do it again

Thanks, I was more worried that there was something completely wrong security-wise with that approach!

Genuine question from someone with a single page static site - why is Cloudflare a useless suggestion?

1. On-prem
2. Self-hosting

And I’ll argue it’s on-prem even if you don’t have the physical server in your building

It tells you right there in the log: “DRDY”

I love every ape I see, from chimpan-A to chimpanzee…

If it is powered on but blank screen, you can try terminating the user session from a terminal

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-terminate-user-session-in-linux/

I did the same thing, set up OpenWRT perfectly, then changed the local range from 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.0.0 to suit some legacy connections. Everything works, except I can’t change settings on the router, so for now I leave it alone

The second half of this article is specifically about the FX-8350 and Hogwarts Legacy performance in case you’re interested

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/k6-fx-8350-revisited-2023-compared-to-modern-ryzens-games

SOHCAHTOA and a calculator have been real useful for that too

After 99 you just get a ♾️ symbol

Do you have a Monty Hall problem, or does Monty Hall have a you problem?

Only if Monty Hall didn’t know where the prize is

Say there are 100 doors, you choose one, then 98 are knocked out randomly (likely including the prize) - Now each of the 2 doors has the same chance of winning, so there is no reason to change

But starting with 100 doors and a knowledgeable Monty Hall, once you’ve chosen a door, the only reason Monty Hall leaves your door alone is because you chose it, whether it is the 1/100 winner, or one of the 99/100 losers

Either you chose the right door the first time (1/100 chance) or the other door has the prize behind it - those are the only options - the other door literally represents the 99/100 other doors in a single choice

I couldn’t even describe a single scene, I watched the whole thing but I was young and only retained the fear