Can we not go here ffs

Man kids should not be able to enter strip clubs, that’s insane to me.

This is the most convincing argument for me, as I know many governments have not been putting their citizen’s interests first.

Despite the risks, I know these sorts of anonymous confirmation systems already exist, and can be implemented effectively with transparency.

Most VPN services tout “zero logs”, and many back it up with audits. We can demand the same from our government.

I’m sure drivers licenses and social security numbers made people uncomfortable too when they were rolled out, but they certainly improved our lives.

A slippery slope is a logical fallacy - we can impose just enough oversight to be helpful AND curtail overreach. We can build and verify a good system.

Also, thank you for being kind.

I think at this point it’s clear to everyone that content moderation done by humans is not viable at scale. In this sense the web is unique, and would require a more dragnet solution, like ID verification. This is done in China already to much success to limit game time for youths.

A child would be turned away at a strip club, so perhaps this is a better analogy than a bar.

Still, if a parent wanted their children to browse an unfiltered Reddit they could provide their ID, and in this way we have a similar analogy.

This is just a lack of imagination on your part.

You could theoretically come up with a system that is both decentralized and able verify age using dedicated protocols/API to respective governments. Just like how most Lemmy sites scan for and report CSAM.

Sure, we all have anecdotes of finding porn on the internet before it was reasonable. And everyone can eventually find ways around barriers. I also remember someone young googling terms and not realizing there was a setting blocking content. They had given up.

Barriers can meaningfully delay, giving young people more time to mature before they are exposed to this content. If every social media platform implemented this, it would have a significant impact. That’s why the porn industry lobbies so hard against these sorts of laws.

I think many underestimate how damaging porn use actually is, how toxic the industry is, and how much of the traffic is generated by the underaged.

We can change anything, and if it makes society a better place then we actually have a moral obligation to try.

I’m also not asking for perfectly monitored total surveillance. Just some barriers for surface level use.

A kid can camp outside a liquor store, offering strangers money to buy them alcohol. But this is difficult, and has a chance of having them turned in.

In the same way an ID pop-up can be circumvented with savvy use of VPNs etc., but it will easily block many of the youngest and most vulnerable. It doesn’t have to be perfect to be effective.

Advertisers have already been mining porn habits on Reddit to sell to third parties. Browser fingerprinting and the Reddit app identify you. If you were concerned about privacy you would not be using Reddit.

But a lot of children and teens do use Reddit, and we should do our best to limit their access to pornography, especially when this data is indiscriminately collected about them too.

If this is true, then this censorship is a terrible tragedy. I still would like government imposed ID age verification for porn though.

Edit: Judging by the spike in downvotes on this comment I can see assumptions are being made about my intentions.

You can limit pornography and not limit access to sex education services, or LGBT communities as they are not pornographic.

But if there was an LGBT forum posting LGBT pornography, then yes, it too should have age verification.

Parents should monitor their children’s behaviour AND society should also impose barriers. The “everything is on parents” is the same personal responsibility myth that conservatives use to justify removing government assistance and cutting things such as healthcare and schooling.

On their way home from school children cannot enter a bar and be served alcohol - or at least this is exceedingly difficult. This has undoubtedly saved people from substance abuse. The same can be said here.

Of course parents should discuss porn and its problems, just as they would with alcohol and other vices.

Also, I have taught young people technology. VPNs are not as intuitive for the mobile generation. Many will not bother, or when they figure it out they will be much closer to a reasonable age.

The barriers do not have to be perfect, but they will help.

Unpopular opinion: this is a good thing - there should be more barriers to porn. I know some teens will find a way around it, but it has been proven to affect the developing brain negatively and normalizes some really harmful behaviour.

Right, phew, I was kind of worried I should have been editing more of these but I suppose it’s mostly just as I add certain software or features

Thanks for the explanation!

If it’s all my system should I really care about chown and chmod? Is the point that automatic processes with user names like www-data have to make edits, and need permission to do so, and that’s it?

Newish Linux user btw

Consider installing NextCloud on a private virtual Ubuntu/debian server. You can deploy it via docker or other various ways to make this easy.

This can essentially grant you full control over your data as long as you trust wherever you host the server. You can install other open source apps on top of it - like only office which can give you live shared file editing like google drive or one drive.

Nextcloud has phone app access. NextCloud supports markdown. NextCloud is fully open source, and actively developed due to enterprise support contracts, kind of like Fedora. You could secure access over the internet through a VPN, https and every other hardening scheme.

If you don’t trust any infrastructure then host it on a laptop, so many reliable used devices can be picked up for cheap. Expand to other devices for redundancy as you become comfortable.

Feel free to create accounts for family and people you trust, freeing your community from monopoly.

Ask ChatGPT for the steps in between. This is my personal set up, feel free to ask me any questions ChatGPT can’t help with, though I may be slow to answer.

I thought I’d hate it too, but it feels so natural now. It helps that you can edit the button layout and their size in options.

Unfortunately no external controllers are officially supported. They were planning on doing a console port so I was expecting this would be a thing at some point, but it feels like they’re moving all their spare devs to “the mmo”

Firm disagree. League is more streamlined than DOTA, and this is actually more interesting IMO.

For example the dance of trading and last hitting has enough depth that we don’t need denying to make things exciting. This allows us to focus more carefully on the variation involved with trading well without arbitrarily raising the skill ceiling.

I don’t doubt some people enjoy the third layer DOTA adds, it’s just that I feel League allows people to focus more of what is fun in MOBAs rather than being an unending knowledge check.

Wild Rift is even better for refining the genre further. For something obviously too simplified you could point to ML:BB, but Wild Rift is noticeably on a whole other level. There really is a sweet spot and I think it’s closer to League than DOTA.

You can mute the chat now. You should be extra tempted by the superior mobile version Wild Rift. The controls feel like they’re meant to be a twin stick shooter, and piloting a champ is much more satisfying that way

League of Legends is genuinely great, and Wild Rift is even better! I highly recommend them.

ARAM (All Random All Mid mode) in LoL is hilarious and a great way to learn how to play

I dunno if I’d call France a utopia