Nyadia

https://youtu.be/9h9wStdPkQY

Adding a birthday field is not privacy invading in itself the same way brandishing a knife is not assault in itself.

Context matters. I’ve held knives before and it was completely inocuous. I’ve used knives to chop vegetables, to spread butter, to carve something out of wood, etc. If I pulled out a knife while in a heated argument with someone that’d be a whole other story, and I don’t think “I was just holding the knife, is it illegal to hold knives now?” would exonerate me from accusations of intent or threat to assault someone.

In any other context adding a date of birth field would be inocuous. You’re not required to use it after all. But in this context as I understand it, it is explicitly infrastructure for age verification, even if it is not age verification in itself.

I see this topic come up often in conversations about degoogled Android and it makes me wonder what if anything I’m missing out on by just using cash/card for payments, cause not once have I been at checkout and thought to myself “man, I wish I could do this with my phone instead” but people talk about this like it’s almost a dealbreaker that makes it hard for them to seriously consider switching to Graphene or Lineage or whatever.

すごい!

Take this with a grain of salt cause this is just what I’ve heard from a friend who knows a lot more about server hosting than I do, but from what I’ve heard hosting a Matrix homeserver is a potential legal liability unless you’re really selective about who you let on your server cause it stores the entire state of every room a user uses, so all it takes is one friend of a friend to visit a sketchy room where people have shared csam and you could be in trouble.

Assuming this is accurate and not just my friend misunderstanding something or being overly paranoid I could imagine people being very hesitant about hosting their own server rather than just using the default matrix.org server.

I think this is more malice than it is ineptitude tbh.

Now someone’s gotta combine the two and make GNU/Linux without GNU or Linux

Yeah, in your Firefox settings. Click the menu with the 3 horizontal lines in the top right corner, click “More Tools”, and then click on “Customize Toolbar…”. On the bottom left corner there should be a checkbox that says “Title Bar”. Uncheck that and then click “Done” in the bottom right.

speakwrite

“Listen kid, I’ve been on the internet much longer than you have. Back in my day we used to spin fidget spinners while watching LeafyIsHere videos and It’s The Nutshack memes during class instead of doing work. But you wouldn’t know nothin’ bout that, that’s ancient internet stuff right there”

Nah it makes sense, if you don’t drive a car you’re not a real US citizen

/s

Big tech doesn’t believe in the concept of consent. It’s why all the "no"s turned into "not now"s and "ask me again later"s like a decade ago.

My apologies, this data is misleading. Most of the new traffic is actually just me mass downloading and data hoarding porn across thousands of VMs. Whenever I need to rub one out I ssh into one of them and watch it that way. Keeps it off my main machine and keeps my browser history clean.