Kinderficker has been sadly relevant lately.

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I know who LockPickingLawyer is, and I know that disc detainer locks are hard to pick.

My point is that cloning keys from pictures also requires specialized equipment (or a file and a very high level of skill). The only real exception is standardized keys someone might recognize like the Ford fleet key. Those used to come up in an Amazon search for “police car key”.

opposition needs an argument

The argument is that it’s fundamentally a bad idea, not that we know a better way to do it. I realize that’s a harder argument to make.

Take porn for example. Above board porn sites generally try to comply with the law. They either perform age verification or block jurisdictions that require it. They verify the ages of performers. They comply with copyright law. They enforce rules against unauthorized deepfakes.

Sites exist which are hosted outside the jurisdiction of USA/EU/AU/etc… legal systems which do none of those things. On such sites, there’s a good chance of finding CSAM, stolen content, and deepfakes; I will not list any here. Driving teenagers who want to see porn from mainstream sites to poorly moderated ones is the likely outcome of a successful age verification scheme, and an undesirable one.

I’m not sure a video of someone successfully picking an Abloy disc detainer lock is good evidence for the claim that picking isn’t really an option when it comes to Abloy disc detainer locks.

I’ll grant that picking them is difficult, but cloning keys for them from photos is probably also more difficult than common pin tumbler locks.

That’s true, but most people with that skill can also pick locks.

Sounds like a decentralized encrypted messaging platform is needed.

Decentralized probably isn’t desirable for this use case; self-hosted is. When designing something for that purpose based on a decentralized protocol like Matrix, it’s probably desirable to mandate that the most sensitive conversations take place using a server with decentralization disabled and a client restricted to using only that server.

Do you need a recommendation for an adblocker?

An app that could be a website and wants a huge intrusive set of permissions? So just like every corporate social media thing ever.

You’re not wrong, and an open option might be an improvement over the current situation. On the other hand, it might encourage broader use of remote attestation.

I’m mostly disappointed that there’s no meaningful organized opposition. When Microsoft first proposed adding remote attestation to Windows, the New York Times called it out as oppressive. Now it seems like only hardcore open source nerds care, and I think the tech community should be doing better.

I agree with all the other comments: pulling out is not a birth control method, and you have a high risk of pregnancy in this situation if you don’t take an emergency contraceptive.

I find myself getting into these situations. What should I be doing differently?

Carry condoms. Insist on their use the entire time a penis is in contact with your vulva. Most men, even irresponsible ones will pick sex with a condom over no sex, and someone refusing condom use when you have one available is a strong red flag.

I won’t pretend to know what lifestyle choices are right for you, but condoms have a very good track record for preventing STIs and pregnancy.

I don’t like it. Remote attestation is a violation of the user’s right to control over their own devices. We should be pushing to eliminate it, not expand its use.

Anyone who was publishing to FDroid already is not going to be annoyed about the 24 hour scare screen for users.

Bullshit.

It’s hard enough to get people to step outside the Play Store ecosystem. Any additional friction will greatly reduce the number who do, and the combination of a reboot and a long waiting period is a lot of friction for the average person.

All people will die, so does it really matter if its sooner than later?

I think most people would rather die at the age of 90 from heart failure than at the age of 9 from smallpox.

Their chances of having food, a stable climate, and freedom are getting reduced every year?

Those are valid concerns, but the trends were moving in the right direction until recently. I’m concerned about backsliding too, but it’s not clear whether we’re seeing a long-term reversal or just some turbulence.

We have breached the boundaries of climate change, freshwater use, ocean acidification, and biological diversity. There has never been a worse time on the planet than right now.

This is a picture of the Cuyahoga River on fire in 1969. Here’s a look at the air in Los Angeles in the 1970s.

We’ve come a long way on environmental protection in the past half century. We still have a long way to go, and as with other issues, there has been some backsliding. I’m pretty optimistic about the long-term trend.

Pick a metric of badness like rates of war death, childhood mortality, communicable disease, or extreme poverty.

They’re all low now compared to most points we can estimate in human history. Look at an interval of a decade instead of a year to smooth out spikes from relatively small events.

Over half a million people have died in the Gaza and Ukraine wars, and that’s terrible. It seems like now is pretty bad as far as war goes. World War 1 killed about 20 million. World War 2 killed about 80 million. The perspective is staggering.

A couple centuries ago, half of all children died before adulthood. Now it’s 4.4%. One in 20 children not surviving their childhood is certainly tragic, but far less so than one in two.

A lot of network, banking, and telephony protocols historically rely on trusting that there are no bad actors in the chain. Technology has added more links to the chain increasing the opportunities for bad actors to tap into it.

Their wish to break the first rule of network security (you can’t trust the client) shouldn’t be everyone else’s problem.

could dramatically cut the energy consumed by artificial intelligence hardware

Decreasing the cost of using a resource almost always results in more use of that resource.

Laboratory tests showed the devices could reliably endure tens of thousands of switching cycles

That’s not very many when GPUs perform trillions of operations per second.

The actual lesson: get people to pay you for bullshit seminars.

That’s weird. Titles are free.

I’ve tried it, and only ran into a couple apps that wouldn’t work with MicroG. I won’t pretend it’s painless, but it’s workable for someone with sufficient motivation.