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No, this is not politics, you are not building an echo chamber. This is about respect, and people can respectfully disagree and I won’t block them, but there’s no reason anyone should have to put up with disrespectful users. I also blocked that one user that censored every swear word in shitposts. Fuck that person too. They both shouldn’t modify people’s works without permission.

Sauer claims that the birthright citizenship should only apply to people born here who intend to stay, and have no foreign allegiances. He justified that by saying the history of birthright citizenship is specifically to help newly freed slaves after the US civil war, and should not apply to children of illegal immigrants.

Barret noted that most slaves were trafficked here against their will, and undoubtedly some of them wanted to go back to their home, or were still allegiant to their home country. So, Sauer’s test of whether someone is domiciled and has no foreign allegiances would preclude a sizeable amount of freed slaves. Therefore, his test is ahistorical, because in fact all slaces received citizenship regardless of their allegiance or willingness to stay.

The article claims the case will be won 7-2 in favor of birthright citizenship without any loyalty test.

Yeah, exactly. A lot of these laws require an age input but only expose the age ‘bracket’ a user is in, usually 3 or 4, with one being ‘adult’, which I think is also ok. Because a very young child should be treated different from a teenager. But, yeah I would prefer you simply choose the bracket, as the parent, then have to input the exact age of your child.

Edit: to be honest though, the username field is probably just as valuable as the age, from a privacy perspective. Some people even enter their full names when creating a user account. So I feel like the age thing, of course you can just lie and put the wrong age, but it’s really splitting hairs in the privacy debates, when we literally have companies videochatting with people to verify their government ids to use some social media, which is fucking insane

All of those methods require accesss to a router and technical knowledge. Actually, it requires access to all routers your child will ever use, in case they ever switch networks or use cell data. There are ways to install spyware on phones and computers that will work to limit content everywhere, but again that requires technical skill, and investigating whether the spyware is privacy protecting, which is far from always true. A software level approach is going to lock out a lot of non technical people and actively harm a lot of others. A question at account creation time about whether the user should be considered a child would make it difficult for that user to circumvent that label without admin access, and requires no spyware. I think it’s a good idea. I don’t necessarily know how I feel about putting it into laws though, making it mandatory.

This is an AI slop repo. Somebody is paying money to anthropic to harass volunteer open source developers. Pretty gross honestly, let’s keep our outrage aimed at microslop and co, and the legislators behind them.

Yeah that looks like it is the way it is. Which, to be clear, does not change my decision to block ads, as that is based in having a pretty basic level of self respect and appreciation for my own time. But it is good to know, so thanks.

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I’ve never heard that, would be curious to know. The videos are still marked as watched in my account; that’s as much insight as I have.

How does adblocking affect content creators? Are they paid differently?

Also, I am not going to be forced to watch anything, fuck that. There is literally more youtube video out there than I can possibly watch in a lifetime. I can’t be expected to watch all of it, so I only watch the parts I want. It’s not stealing, YouTube is offering the same media to me, I just don’t particularly like the sponsored portions and ads, the same way I ignore 99% of the other content on the website. It’s a personal preference, not a crime.

If you want a real answer, it is for the situation where the owner of a device would like to respond on a non-privileged user’s behalf. A kid being asked ‘hey, you have to be 18 to see inside, pinky promise? ;)’ by a website is not secure. And there are plenty of sketchy, privacy-invasive third party solutions to lock down devices, but a system-level universal age attestation api would make it a lot easier for parents to control what their child sees, assuming the internet adopts it broadly.

It’s not meant to even inconvenience adults who own their own devices. People complaining about this must have trouble opening child seals on their medicine.

I would be opposed to that hypothetical proposal. This real proposal, helpfully linked, has none of that. It’s the same way how I’m in favor of energy independence but oppose fracking. How I’m in favor of legalization and hate the idea of phillip-morris joints. Just because two policies have a vaguely similar idea of ‘protecting children’ doesn’t mean they are equal.

Nobody is pretending, we just know how to read. There are real threats to privacy, there are real age verification bills going around everywhere. This isn’t one of them. Technical details matter, and this proposal preserves children’s privacy while giving parents more control of their devices.

The correct word is attestation, not verification. It’s an incredibly important distinction.

There’s no bypassing required, there’s literally no verification required. The post title is incorrect.

In the hypothetical world where an operating system, independent of any legal requirements, decides to require age/id verification, I will simply not use that particular operating system.

The law only applies to OS providers. I, as a user, can legally input 1675 as my birth date.

I can ‘indicate’ whatever the fuck I want with no consequences. That’s not the same as age/id verification.

I don’t see anything in here about verification.

I’ve only had time to look at the single file php app, it looks really great on first blush! I am going to give it a run later. I think you’re a little too hard on yourself for lack of programming experience, this looks well structured. I personally don’t like the lack of indentation in the html, or the single line css classes, but I understand that they might decrease the file size a little.

How am I supposed to give feedback if I can’t try it? A paragraph is not a project. Regardless, private projects should require no validation. Who cares what reddit thinks? You’re not trying to sell anything, or convince anyone of anything, right?