The tool could soon help users prove their age online without sharing personal data
Once released, users will be able to download the app from an app store and set it up using proof of identity, such as a passport or national ID card.
Officials say the app will be “completely anonymous” and built on open-source technology, meaning it could also be adopted outside the EU.
The fuck am I reading?
Even if RAM they use in data centers was compatible with consumer hardware, the companies would sooner burn it all and eat the loss than let us have it. They are sitting pretty right now - they have 0 reason to ever go back to the reasonable prices.
I’ve had Windows installed on the same machine since 8 through 11. Not even a full reinstall ever took longer than 20min at most, counting the downloads. 11 updates roughly once a month, sometimes 2-3 smaller updates a month if there were some issues, sometimes it can go a month without anything, and I had the “get updates first” ticked in the settings. Every single time it estimates a 4min update and it never takes longer than that. Not once did I have any of the issues you listed. Not sitting on some crazy new hardware either, an 11 years old SATA SSD and an ok internet. I very rarely skipped updates on my PC, but I did once update a very old laptop and it took 30min only because it had a measly 8GB of RAM and an HDD.
I’m now on Cachy and I do update every day or multiple times a day, but I wouldn’t go on a rant if I missed half a year worth of updates and then had to wait some time for it to install. In half a year, even slow distros had a major update. And I simply do not buy that anyone outside of HDD and unstable internet users had to wait more than 1h at absolute worst to install a half a year load of updates.
How is this unreasonable? What is Windows supposed to do? Personally come to your house to ensure you are still getting updated? You don’t even have to use it daily, as the author said - they chose to stare at the update button (which again I don’t even understand the point of anyway, Windows won’t magically offer you more updates if you click it more times, this is the same logic as clicking the pedestrian push button more than once), which means for regular users the updates would’ve installed in the background or outside of working hours and they wouldn’t even notice.
“I enrolled my laptop into Windows 11 Insiders Program that delivers updates on a more frequent basis, turned it off for half a year and then got mad that I missed a bunch of updates, so I decided to sit there and mash the update button to constantly ping for updates instead of doing literally anything else while it’s updating, because I wanted to run tests and had to be fully up-to-date.”
Microslop got a lot of issues, but this is fucking ridiculous, the author sounds insufferable.
“But who in the temple is going to sit there for 10 minutes or more while this downloads new updates and reboots?”
Oh, idk, people who don’t enroll themselves into a faster paced update cycle.
“And may the gods help you if you buy a brand new PC that’s been sitting on a shelf for months or years. You might have hours of updates after you first take it out of the box.”
I don’t know a single piece of electronic that doesn’t require updating after purchasing. Hours, though? Is this guy on a 10kbps connection or where is this fantasy coming from?
fmhy.net for all your sailing needs.
Do you have a family member or a close friend who is tech savvy and is also using BW? If yes - you could set up an emergency access, so that they can initiate an account takeover should you somehow entirely lose access to everything and need it recovered. The original intent is to take control of an account of a deceased person.
If that’s not an option - just save your master PW somewhere offline. Another person suggested paper, but honestly evaluate your own threat levels and consider having an offline backup of it on a device that never connects to the internet (e.g. a flash drive that you only connect with the internet turned off). You can also make an offline export of your vault onto that USB in case you get locked out and need at least your data recovered. Generally don’t overthink your master PW, a 10 word passphrase with a number is good enough, if it’s not a grammatical sentence - even better, it can even be not in English. There are also ways you can “salt” your PW in addition, say, your PW is hello-friend-joke-inventing5, you can save it as housing2-hello-friend-joke-inventing500 and just remember to remove the extras. If you are not specifically targeted and don’t click on fishing links, then honestly even if you save your master PW in your own BW vault nothing will happen, even less so if it’s salted.
The only way to truly mess up your vault is to change keys without logging out your devices, but BW explicitly warns you at each step of that process, so it’s up to you not to ignore the warnings.
I installed Cachy on a GTX980 PC, but had to use nomodeset, so if you wanna install some distros that are using incompatible drivers in the live ISO give nomodeset a try.
Oh is that why that happens? I just thought Nouveau drivers were incompatible with old Nvidia cards.
Non profit + partnerships (e.g. Google/Bing/whatever posting your articles on their start pages) and/or government grants (strictly with no strings attached).
DNS blocking is a paper wall indeed. However, this is just a step one. VPNs are already a target, so this will help them with justifying step 2 - introducing DPI to monitor all traffic and proactively block new VPNs and other obfuscation methods. Step 3 is more or less final, it’s when they realize this is also not quite as efficient as they’d like and they’ll get tired of the constant cat and mouse game, so the solution would have to be whitelisting approved websites and blocking everything else. It’s amazing for billionaires and their corpos as that makes it nearly impossible for new projects to enter the market, and it’s great for governments that desperately want to be authoritarian, but pesky constitutions, privacy laws and some such are getting in the way.
Ahhhh, there comes the american own great firewall, fantastic…
Wonder if we will suddenly see this same bullshit pop up in all the pro age verification countries now or a tad later to make it less obvious.
If your government knows that the IP belongs to a Tor bridge - how do they not know you connected to a Tor bridge?
Downsides:
I appreciate you running a node yourself and potentially helping some people at least get some connection when no other alternative works, but don’t downplay the severity of proper state surveillance.
100%, though I hope they expand on the freeflying and let you also approach planets and land manually, even if all it does is the same loading in as from the map but with a disguised loading screen in a form of you approaching the landing spot instead.
That’s actually part of the motivation behind russian internet isolation, their head bitch leading the charge on it believes that the internet “violates the existence of borders in the world”.
First 4 are disabled on unsupported systems anyway (4 is also sometimes disabled to squeeze out gaming performance), but 5 is scary as hell.
Rufus can still bypass every single W11 requirement and automatically complete the setup for you, including a local account.
You’d think, but Joelemz is doing 100% of all CoD’s on his YT/Twitch and people are cheating in old CoD games on consoles. If there’s online there are going to be cheaters. I even encountered some in old Chivalry…
Definitely a performance problem, no HW acceleration on PC produces the same insanely stuttery scroll.
Thanks, the article was entirely useless, just glazing the proposal.
While this is a better turd than k-ID and the likes, it’s still a turd. What is this supposed to achieve? Doesn’t stop kids from accessing anything, but hinders VPN usability (tunneling into ID requiring locations is going to be useless, as you can’t verify) and lays out the foundation for labeling anything as “adult” content, which we all know never stops at actual adult content.