So being able to get a token without even the government knowing?

Because if it’s the alternative of the government itself issuing the token and it being only the receiving site not knowing, but the government being able to link it back to you I wouldn’t be happy with that either.

I’d prefer it to be as trackable as knowing which specific alcohol bottle you bought. So other than showing ID to a store to get a random token nobody in theory would know who the token belongs to including the government.

Age verification if intent was to make it not tied to real ID would be a system where you could go into any store and buy a card you can scratch off for a code to put in.

But, governments want to track and get rid of anonymous accounts. They don’t actually care about age requirements. They want a 1984 type control of citizens to know what they are thinking or at the very least scare off people from expressing thoughts like politicians should be held accountable for fear of current or future consequences from a government that may decide it is treasonous.

You need to trust your government or trust it to not turn evil to be willing to see them take on the task of knowing every single online account you use. And hope whoever comes into power doesn’t find comments you made in a past a threat that it wasn’t before. Like something as benign as the belief politicians should be held accountable could be flagged as treasonous for daring to question the government’s credibility.

Which is the real goal of online verification. Police citizens and eventually kill off or curb sharing of thoughts and ideas for fear of current or future retaliation depending on who comes into power. Automated flagging of potential abnormals based on profiles generated from linked citizen online accounts is the end game.

The idea that this would help stop malicious foreign actors itself seems like yet another false belief that this type of system would be used for the good of citizens as opposed to tracking and move towards Big Brother.

Yep, and used in this case is much better than the new cheap laptops with crappy specs.

Better to get a used Thinkpad with how well those hold up being over thousand dollars, but get discounted steeply to hundreds with companies offloading them once warranty is up. Can get actual nice Ryzen CPUs and have a proper storage.

I don’t think you get asked a phone number if you make it on your smartphone.

Devin Booker who is a NBA player recorded footage from the Olympics with an old camcorder and it looked really cool like being transported back in time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poobvhCqNLY

So I can see why people like the look of it.

I noticed articles and social media topics are going really aggressive with we need to ban social media because it’s bad for kids, and bunch of comments advocating for verification. Which of course would mean what discord is attempting to do with IDs and face scans.

Which is so bizzare seeing the backlash to discord by real people, but then non discord related topics all pro about verification.

I remember when it initially flooded reddit feeds as a Chinese app with /r/all having random Chinese dancing clips and so on. Then next thing I knew everyone was using it. I didn’t though. Was sketched out by the app permissions. And it’s even worse now with the ownership change.

Tiktok isn’t that old and that it was able to break into being part of category of apps people have a hard time deleting does give hope that not all hope is lost for a new app to join the ranks.

Will just take time for features to match discord and a question of if it’ll be a new shady corporate app that gains popularity.

What you are more likely to see is having to create and log into a Microsoft account on Windows or Apple account on MacOS to gain unrestricted access with IDs for verified accounts to be used on the OS.

With recent attempts at ID collection, subpoenas to reddit demanding user information of those critical of the US admin, and Palantir’s involvement your proposal is coming from a position assuming those groups aren’t the ones pushing for it.

Celebrities they worship are still on there so another reason they refuse to leave.

Gunpla and reading are really nice ways to pass the time.

It depends on material too. Algorithm makes recommendations based on similar video, and something like Star Wars for instance has a lot of angry conservatives ranting about it so can skew towards youtube recommendations including them in Star Wars content.

On the other hand searching Expanse is less likely to see those conservative rant channels, since not as much content like that is made for it.

So even though Expanse and Star Wars are scifi, viewing and searching both of them will have different levels of right wing centered media you are likely to be recommended.

And depending on topic of interest the ideology of the most popular channels which youtube promotes also dictates what you’ll be recommended even if you don’t watch the channel. Like if you search PC stuff LTT will always dominate the first few pages of search results.

Yeah, I like OS installed on separate drives and selecting the one I want to boot off of in BIOS. Gets trickier on laptop though that doesn’t have multiple drives.

I use lemmy not because of privacy since public forums aren’t private, but to move away from corporate social spaces profiting off their user base. And also getting back third party apps.

Lemmy feels more like old school Internet of people discussing and talking because they want to as opposed to the whole spaces end goal being to figure out how to IPO.