It’s going to be interesting to see if, after Britons become accustomed to letting websites take pictures of their identity documents, whether there will be interesting fraud attempts made on the British public from other websites who claim that they are conforming to British law.
The division is between state and federal; city or other lower-level political power is simply delegated state power. Cities don’t get any intrinsic authority from the US Constitution.
It’s over the threshold for a few. Some examples:
!BayArea@lemmy.world for the San Francisco Bay Area.
Those are large populations, though. Gonna be hard to get enough people for Podunk, Iowa.
For anyone, like myself, who didn’t recognize the character in the meme here, it’s apparently Krysten Ritter playing Jessica Jones in Jessica Jones, which I’ve never watched.
Probably dating myself here, but I was staring at it thinking that it was Winona Ryder, and couldn’t remember ever having seen that scene. Looks a lot like her.
kagis
Sounds like it isn’t just me, at least.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Defenders/comments/8kfqy4/anyone_one_else_think_that_winona_ryder_looks/
Anyone one else think that Winona Ryder looks like Jessica
that was the point.
the person who wrote the Jessica Jones comics started writing them in the late 90’s then got the Marvel deal in 2000. they are a fan of Wynona.
So you’re specifically also wanting community servers, based on the first paragraph?
Yeah, and I use trixie myself, but I think that it’s reasonable to use Debian stable rather than Debian testing in response, because for Debian, “release” is when it enters stable.
It is true that trixie is expected to become new stable within about two weeks, so we’re right on the verge of a new release, but it still isn’t out the door.
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/sqlite3
Package: sqlite3 (3.40.1-2+deb12u1)
https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_40_1.html
SQLite Release 3.40.1 On 2022-12-28
I don’t really see why regulation on this has to happen at the national level. Bees don’t move around much. Farms don’t move around. Could just let regions of France decide whether they want to permit or prohibit something.
In general, if you have to find least-common-denominator policies, they tend to result in more people being unhappy than if you can decide on policy at a more-granular level.
I’d assume that this is something that can be most-easily bypassed at the browser level if a site can request access to a camera.
I don’t think that any trusted-to-the-camera hardware stack exists today.
But at an OS level…
I dunno about Windows, but Linux can do virtual video-4-linux devices, which is probably how the OS exposes a camera to a browser on Linux.
https://github.com/v4l2loopback/v4l2loopback
This module allows you to create “virtual video devices”. Normal (v4l2) applications will read these devices as if they were ordinary video devices, but the video will not be read from e.g. a capture card but instead it is generated by another application.
Usenet is still a thing, but it’s all us binary kids now. Maybe we could go back to how it was in the '90s and actually chat on the platform.
People stopped using Usenet for discussion in large part because of overwhelming spam problems and a lack of infrastructure to mitigate it.
You could maybe build some sort of system to mitigate that.
Maybe automated text classification is good enough to do on a distributed level, on client machines, now. Problem is that automated text generation to try to defeat it has also probably improved, and I’d tend to bet on the spammers having the advantage.
Maybe an out-of-band mechanism to generate information about posts would work. Have Usenet clients support pulling a database of scores for current posts in a group. Like, have some server(s) that generates various types of scores (advertising, flameware, etc) text scores for posts. Can incorporate various human moderation in that scoring, maybe let an end user subscribe to one or more “moderators”, which I understand BlueSky does something like.
Honestly, though, the Threadiverse mostly does what I want as a distributed discussion forum. I’m not sure what large benefits Usenet brings to the table relative to it.
There’s infrastructure for posting large binaries, which the Threadiverse doesn’t really have short of (relatively small) image posting, but servers propagating the (large) alt.binaries hierarchy plus Usenet’s bandwidth-heavy “broadcast” style of post propagation is also what drove up the cost of running Usenet servers and forced them to generally go commercial. Eternal-september.org is one of the very few remaining free-as-in-gratis Usenet servers, and they don’t propagate alt.binaries. And I’d expect that Parliament would crack down on commercial Usenet operators if the Act doesn’t already do so and Usenet sees a major surge in popularity in the UK for the pornography that this is trying to block; payment processors are necessary for commercial service, and easy for countries to lean on as leverage. If you want the ability to post large binaries in a state-censorship-resistant way, I’d probably…hmm. If a state wants to leverage its control of the network infrastructure to block access, it can make access pretty difficult. Maybe use Hyphanet (previously known as Freenet) for the files, then use magnet-style links on a more latency-friendly forum for discussion.
I’d add that if you pick Ireland as the VPN exit country, it will have notable benefits:
Sites that pick language based on IP will probably do English.
It probably won’t add much latency.
Ireland isn’t too bonkers and hopefully won’t have any large collection of online laws of their own that become an irritant.
Because Ireland has a considerably smaller population than the UK, if people in the UK do this at scale for pornography, it will make the Irish statistically look like absolutely indefatigable horndogs, which I think will be pretty funny on visualizations.
That is, I believe, a British law that they’re following for users that appear to be in the UK. Not like they’re going to just disregard the law.
kagis
Yeah, the Online Safety Act 2023.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
The Online Safety Act 2023[1][2][3] (c. 50) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate online content. Designed to protect children and adults online, it passed on 26 October 2023 and gives the relevant Secretary of State the power, subject to parliamentary approval, to designate and suppress or record a wide range of online content that is illegal or deemed “harmful” to children.[4][5]
The act creates a new duty of care for online platforms, requiring them to take action against illegal content, or legal content that could be “harmful” to children where children are likely to access it. Platforms failing this duty would be liable to fines of up to £18 million or 10% of their annual turnover, whichever is higher. It also empowers Ofcom to block access to particular websites.
So that’s what they’ll be aiming to do.
Some websites and apps stated they would introduce age verification for users in response to a 25 July 2025 deadline set by Ofcom.[47] These include pornographic websites,[48] but also the social networks Bluesky and Reddit.[49][50]
Probably should be mostly irritated with Parliament.
I expect that using a VPN that terminates in another country will avoid it, though I bet that then you can’t do things like buy Reddit Gold, if that’s still a thing.
I would guess that it’s more that Trump would rather have the public not talking about him and the Epstein stuff, which is currently in the news, so it’s time to do something appropriately headline-grabbing as to compete with it.
I didn’t dislike it, but it didn’t live up to my hopes after all I’d heard about it.
I don’t regret having bought and played the game, but I never bothered to go back and fully finish all the side missions.
I do think that the edginess is kinda part of the cyberpunk genre. I can’t beat up on them for that.
It has high production values, a lot of modeling and texturing and such — I’m amazed how much money they have to have sunk into assets only to use them briefly — but the actual core gameplay didn’t grab me the way, oh, Halo did when it first came out and I played it. Night City is painstakingly created in tremendous detail, but end of the day, the point is to create the backdrop for gameplay, and I feel like they spent a disproportionate making of resources on that.
The combat is pretty, but for all of the work that went into various systems, I didn’t play it much differently from the way I would another shooter.
I also had been expecting something more like a Bethesda RPG, and got something more Grand Theft Auto-ish with a beefed up skill tree.
I wasn’t that impressed with the braindance stuff from a pure gameplay standpoint — it’s kinda “hunt for the hidden object” stuff — but I do think that it was original and it served as a useful justification to show “flashbacks” to earlier events.
Obtaining and managing clothing is a significant chunk of game and content, but I almost never actually see the main character, so the clothing doesn’t have much impact. Maybe if there were a third person camera mode or frequent reflections or frequent looking through a camera or something.
Having played some games like Saboteur and Grand Theft Auto, I kind of expected the differences between autos to matter more, given how much work went into creating them and all, but from a mission standpoint, they’re surprisingly interchangeable. A couple missions are easier with some, but a lot of the vehicles don’t really have that much gameplay point.
Johnny Silverhand is a major part of the game, but wasn’t really a character that I found very plausible or super interesting. I dunno, maybe if I had been into the punk music scene, it’d be different. I felt like they really were trying to shoehorn a punk band leader into the role. That being said, I did think that most characters were pretty solid.
He got some news headlines, which I imagine achieved the goal.
I mean, you get to book sales earlier, which it sounds like games internal company targets. But if you book a sale early, then you can’t book the sales at the regular time, which is gonna artificially depress your sales down the line.
Microsoft has just signed a deal with Vaulted Deep, paying it to remove 4.9 million metric tons of waste over 12 years sourced from manure, sewage, and agricultural byproducts for injection deep underground.
https://investigatemidwest.org/2023/12/07/us-push-to-produce-methane-from-manure-raises-concerns/
“It can provide a substantial portion of global energy needs,” Rudi Roeslein , CEO of Roeslein Alternative Energy, told the attendees. His company has built farm-based methane systems around the country that produce enough fuel to displace 6 million gallons of diesel fuel and 80,000 cars. “If we do this on a large scale in the U.S. we could generate $63.6 billion worth of revenue for farmers around the country.”
Roeslein’s company promises on its website to “restore a balance” to farmland “by using the sustainably harvested biomass to create renewable natural gas.”
A million BTUs (MMBTu) of methane digested from manure is currently worth $3 in the value of the gas
I know where to find a valuable source of methane in 12 years.
A man who stabbed his wife to death “felt bad” about the murder,
On one hand, remorse can be used as a factor in reduced sentences.
On the other hand, I kinda feel like it having just led to another homicide isn’t gonna be doing that guy’s defense lawyer any favors.
I don’t think that Trump comes out ahead in any legal battle. Even if he’s in the legal right, which I seriously doubt — now you’ve got a huge, high-profile feud going on with the guy that owns a large chunk of the right wing media out there. I mean, you’re gonna lose in the court of public opinion.
And the standard for defamation specifically in US courts specifically for public figures is very high. Like, let’s even say that the report was in error (which I also kinda doubt). To win a defamation case in the US, the defamation has to be intentionally false, done with the intent of causing harm, and a collection of other things that are gonna be hard to win on.
And if you lose, now the news headline is “Trump loses/abandons case against News Media X over his involvement in sexy stuff with Epstein”.
I kind of don’t want to send my location to “location sharing” companies to sell to data brokers.