Kids will bypass any verification by secretly using an adult ID or just straight away asking them to do it. Hell the crazy things I used to do to connect to the internet after my mother went to sleep. She didn't wanted me using the internet because of phone charges so I secretly got into the roof to strip the phone wire bare and connect my own hidden cable that I would unroll and route it to my room to connect to my modem at night. YES part of it was to watch porn and download mp3s and roms. No I wasn't of legal age. Did my life got ruined by this? Well I'm an IT engineer now so arrive at your own conclusion. I think this current hysteric moral panic is definitely being pushed by a lobby of a nascent AI industry that wants to create a problem for their surveillance tech solution. Its a big grift that aligns with incentives of power hungry politicians and data hungry tech giants.

TIL there is an HTTP status code for payment required

RFC 9110: HTTP Semantics

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. ...

The world is neither round nor flat. The world is a vampire. View quoted note →

https://archive.is/Us1Mj sounds a bit like #nostr Did we broke the curse of #xanadu ?

I always thought it was like Mastodon where you can just host your own site with your own rules. https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/1nmhcfl/what_happened_to_bluesky_being_decentralized/

Cute.

Tower Dungeon by Tsutomu Nihei is really good. The failed architect turned mangaka that created Blame! And Knights of Sidonia is now making a dark fantasy manga. Also is from Nihei so expect crazy work on megastructures.

Ohh I'm sure nothing bad will come out of this….

Reclaim The Net

Visa Enters The Digital ID Race

A handshake in Dubai signals a future where identity and payments merge into a single digital layer.

When you think life is weird just remember the best linker for cross compiled Rust Cargo builds is the zig compiler which can be installed through python-pip.