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"Proteus! You just killed 123 schoolgirls, you sick mofo!"

"You're absolutely right."

> Can we stop with the uptime percentages?

100%!

I am willing to be educated; does the average schoolkid carry such a device?

I suspect that the number of kids using not using an app on a device that is aware of its locality is a rounding error.

Tesco* phones on some network's family plan must be 95th percentile.

(* other high street retailers are available)

This.

Smart people could apply their skills and build a genuinely useful technology.

But seems they would rather stick their finger in their ears and pretend that it's not happening. And they will be ignored.

WHen did this learned helplessness become so in vogue?

Doesn't sound like the kind of device that your average schoolkid has in their pocket?

> But the entire EU is implementing stuff like this. Gov ID's, backdoors (swiss article 50a), etc.

Switzerland isn't in the EU, though.

"But everyone uses their phone all the time!"

Kids do.

Sure if they want to circumvent and go home and use Dad's laptop to cyberbully or send pictures of their wang they probably could ...

Not it's location.

If a site creates some opaque token representing the request, and the token is signed by the ID service with no other information disclosure that "The user that presented this is of the appropriate age" that would seem like a reasonable compromise.

Token could be signed out-of-band to obscure the interaction between the parties.

"like"

It's not beyond the wit of humankind to build a working system.

If the app on the kid's phone knows that the phone is registered in the UK, how would a VPN circumvent it?

Article is doing a lot of supposing:

"To enforce it, platforms must age-check their users. In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they're over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial age scan."

> likely

It could, of course, use a double-anonymous system like the French one.

Probably not, but I'd rather that they didn't state their guess as fact in the title.

I have absolutely zero knowledge about the area, but doesn't Polymarket just set up bets between users?

If you're a regular bookmaker, who is on the hook for any losses, then yes you would ban successful users. But in this case you just skim off a fee for each "trade" so there's no incentive to ban anyone.

> Setting up Kerberos just to authenticate users for access to my Linux ISOs is a crazy large requirement!

Export as read only?

And how does one verify that the public key received belongs to the intended party, rather than a mitm?

If the answer is blind trust in a third party that runs the messaging service then I suspect that you can guess what the people asking those questions are really asking.

"Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun" - Charles Montgomery Burns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LbxDZRgA4

This is on the backlog and will be fixed.

> "The compact mainframe occupies a MERE 70 sq. ft. of floor space."

(emphasis mine)

LOOKITCOULDBEWORSESOJUSTCHILLANDTRYNOTTOWORRYABOUTITTOOMUCHOK

Shoes. All the way down. ;-)

As the Mayor was born in London I'm not entirely sure what you're suggesting.

The London Mayor some years ago, Ken Livingstone, was a huge proponent of public trasport and used it extensively.

The current Mayor, whilst still a proponent, likely does not use it. A quick glance at the social media that he recieves will tell you why - it would not be safe. He needs to travel with close protection officers.

The reason? He is Muslim, and Britain has become a very racist country indeed. Well, maybe always was, but the likes of Farage and Musk have so emboldened them that there is no longer a stigma.

Can confirm. Made a bit of a leftfield suggestion for an issue that there were no truly good solutions proposed for. I was tasked with building and deploying it. It's in production and working well so far (service which is 90% of our egress bandwidth). Got some really nice feedback from the director of technology at the Christmas social event.

I can't imagine that it's hurt my job security, and it's been far more interesting than waiting for someone to find me busywork to do.

I can't think of many better ways to demonstrate to your colleagues and corporate overlords that you are worthy of their trust than to readily hold up your hands if you've screwed up.

So long as you're not so incompetent that you're repeatedly doing stupid stuff or cynically causing issues so that you can make yourself look virtuous by owning up, of course.

I've built a proof-of-concept WireGuard VPN for work (SSO with mTLD portal/OIDC, BGP/WG tunnels to link edge servers into the network) and the team love it - better than the Cisco VPN they'd have to use otherwise.

Only problem is the config - I'd love a simple alternate WG app (for macOS/Windows) that could pull a config from a remote endpoint (checking signing) and bring up a WG tunnel with the config presented.

I've written a Golang client which shows up in the macOS menu bar and handles all this, but it's using the Brew WireGuard command line tools and needs sudo, etc., etc., so it's not really suitable for the average user.

Well, you know what to do - just sell a system that runs COBOL on an x86 cluster or Kubernetes or whatever, and you'll make billions!

Be sure to allocate me a bunch of shares for giving you the idea.

Euripping Yarns.

Maybe it's just me, but isn't ~10K r/s pretty much just, well, normal?

My procrastination pays off ...

You must be so proud.