Well, as I added in the edit. I think they do a bit more and actually fool the verification site since they don’t send the whole image, they do the work locally (which is good, for privacy). So they fake valid looking metadata and then presumably get a signed result back which they dutifully pass on to discord.

Looks to me like they’re essentially redirecting the request from the normal api to do age checks to their own api, and just saying “Sure, they’re an adult” to discord (since that is all the “proper” api tells them). There are easy ways for Discord to fix this. So do not expect it to work for long.

What could be risky? Well it seems to be loading some libraries. What are they doing? Don’t know, didn’t check. Probably just keeping the line count of the actual code down. But, who knows?

The other thing (and they of course do need to do this). They pass the full URL that would be sent to the “proper” api to their own. So if there is some private info about you/your account they usually send on, these guys would have that data too.

Just a quick 5 minute look though. I didn’t look too much into it because, I’m not going to use it :P

EDIT: Looks like they actually detail what they do and it seems to involve actually tricking the age verification api too. Interesting stuff. Still not going to do it.

I work from home (and did long before covid). I used to joke that apparently something serious is going on, but I hadn’t noticed.

If you want to go super de-centralised. Just remove the internet and go for a mesh network :P

I was wondering about that. I mean the sticks are different (consumer preferring faster ram, enterprise preferring an extra chip for ECC). But at the root it’s all dram that should be the same underlying silicon by and large.

But, I won’t say for certain because I’ve never really looked into ram production in that level of detail.

Closing airspace. They’re getting training in surface to air missiles?

Wait this is still a thing? I remember writing a DCC download bot in arexx on the amiga, back in the mid 90s.

Dystopian? Or just the beta version?

I think there’s two parts to modern electronics that make them hard to repair.

One is indeed planned obsolescence, companies like apple deliberately making things harder to repair. This is easy to solve, but what’s in it for businesses that only exist to make money when the average consumer is happy to suck this crap up?

But there is a non deliberate side. So many things that used to be modules built with discrete components have been moved to a single chip. Radio parts is an example, they used to requir a lot more external discrete parts and you can now get a single chip doing Bluetooth, WiFi etc with minimal external components.

As more goes to a single chip, it’s single expensive parts that can fail rather than what might have been a single capacitor or resistor failing in a larger circuit.

Of course the planned obsolescence uses this by making custom chips that you literally cannot buy if you wanted to. But there is still a legitimate side to this.

So, just going to say. I feel like this violates rule 1: (Not United States Internal News)

In any case, as an outsider I feel like it’s more than obvious that the step up in activities and rhetoric is a direct response to the realisation that there’s mid-terms coming this year and as it stands they will lose hugely.

So yes, they want to either take control of the voting, or even better stop the election entirely. This is what is being worked towards right now, just from me looking from the outside in.

My eyesight is shot now. Pretty much all soldering I do with a microscope that has daylight LEDs on anyway.

I don’t know. I feel like I’m more alert and the brain is more active with 4k+ in the day time (on days when there’s low light outside). But in the evening I want it down to 2700k or so, in order to get a proper sleep cycle.

Or, and hear me out. Get one that you can change. On a gloomy day, during the daytime have it at daylight white. In the evening a nice 2700k.

I thought we already had that, the NCA? We don’t generally need “federal” level stuff because we don’t have different laws.

There’s some difference in trial process and civil laws (someone can correct me if there’s a real difference in criminal law, I don’t think there is though) between the countries making up the UK. But we don’t have the whole entanglement of State law vs Federal law.

So, there’s no need for anything more than what we already have which only really need to work to bring the regional forces together on serious cases.

I’m always reminded of the scene in The newsroom, where they have the guy from the epa who essentially says it’s already too late to save us from climate oblivion. They wanted him to calm the message and played down the doom.

That was from 2012.

Nothing has changed at all. Humans are rubbish at dealing with problems that are more than a year or so down the road.

I’ve known six year old children to have more maturity than this. “I’m going to invade Greenland because I didn’t get a Nobel Peace Prize” is what this boils down to.

A literal child is in charge of the most powerful single country in the world.

Peter Backman, CEO of theDelivery.World, said the practice was only misleading if customers were purposely trying to support independent restaurants and takeaways.

That’s some high grade bullshit. There is going to be a subset of people (and I’d argue it’s a growing number) that want to support local businesses and so yes it’s misleading to all those people.

But more than that. A corporate/franchise brand has such a huge value they will sue you if you use it without permission. So if they’re choosing not to use a brand they paid good money to use, it can only be because they want to deceive.

I’d say the ideal situation is that tools are developed library first, then cli or gui as preferred allowing others to pick up the slack and make the other tool (or tools) using the functions in the library.

One of the reasons automation is so much easier on linux than windows is because there are many more cli tools to do things. On windows many tools are gui first and cannot easily be automated.

I’m not sure I’ve seen people fired for being too productive directly. It’s absolutely not a metric they care about though. I’ve seen them get rid of people that cost too much not caring how much product knowledge that they couldn’t hand over in any reasonable time with no suitable replacement.

I remember it used to be “Oh, not much in terms of payrises this year. The business isn’t doing so well”. Now they just don’t care enough to even lie to you.

It’s “Another record breaking year, amazing work team, except that team, you’re all redundant now. Also everyone else, sorry only 1% raise left for you from our record breaking year. Also, there’s now a whole team’s worth of work to pick up. Chop chop”