Modern_medicine_isnt

@ Modern_medicine_isnt @lemmy.world

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2 yr. ago

Modern_medicine_isnt @lemmy.world 1d ago

So, you have fully backed my response. OP didn't ask if it was possible with some caveats. I understand a (at a high level) the technical options that can get close to what OP asked for, but it fundamentally just isn't possible without caveats.

1d ago

Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?

Modern_medicine_isnt @lemmy.world 1d ago

You could, but that wouldn't address OPs question. The IRS is known for giving info to other parts of the government to aid in prosecution. And the gov has shown they are terrible at cyber security, so you might as well just post your browser history on the web.

2d ago

Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?

Modern_medicine_isnt @lemmy.world 2d ago

Read back what you wrote. Your first line was about a trusted credential provider. Thats a middle man. Then you talk about creating a proof. Guess what, that phone and browser are known to spy on you excessively. That's another middle man. And odds are that same phone or browser it what you will use to access something that needs the verification. So the same phone or browser has all parts of the information.And of course it's pointless because anyone could steal an ID and get themselves a key. Or steal your phone... so it wouldn't even prove anything.

2d ago

Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?

Modern_medicine_isnt @lemmy.world 2d ago

Nope, you always need a middle man to do the verification. That middle man has too much information.

Also, if you could solve for the middle man, there is no way to know the user belongs to the ID. It can easily be stolen.

2d ago

Do you ever feel like a lot of conflict and controversy could be avoided if everyone was more clear about what they mean?

Modern_medicine_isnt @lemmy.world 2d ago

Verbal communication is horribly inefficient. This is why smaller teams can very often accomplish more than larger teams. The communication overhead, including miscommunications, grows more than linearly. Us detail oriented people give more detail than the average person can obsorb (nor wants to). This causes an increase in the "yes" response just to end the discussion.On the flip side, non-detail oriented people on average have a really hard time seeing all the potential interpretations of thier words. To them, thier interpretation is the only one that exists. So any question either means the questioners is dumb, or doesn't trust them.

I believe the solution for the later is generally to communicate some pleasantly about what they said that reassures them that you trust them or something. But I have yet to be able to build that habit. For the former... write docs (if we are talkjng work). Then speak concisly and reference the existence of the docs. They probably won't read them, but it can fill our need to communicate the details and allow us to be more comfortable leaving out details in the conversation. At least to me, the details are a compulsion.

1w ago

You have complete control over your franchise of choice, what are you retconning?

Modern_medicine_isnt @lemmy.world 1w ago

Jeremiah, Jericho, dead like me.

They were all great ideas (though jericho wasn't necessarily original), that if you grabbed some great writers could be modernized to be awesome. But since they didn't have a wide audience, they never will happen unless I use this power. Most of the others mentioned here will eventually get redone.

2w ago

Study reveals why the brain 'zones out' when you're exhausted

The key (to surviving) for me is similar. Simplify as much day to day stuff as I can. Build habits to reduce the cognitive load of doing day to day tasks. I've been at it for decades, and it is still a struggle. Always will be I suppose.

2w ago

How far back in time could you go with your skills?

There is always a need for dumb labor. I may not be good at it.... yet...

2w ago

What are some gross or disgusting facts about the human body that people aren't aware of?

As an IBS sufferer, I'm here to tell you, it ain't free.

2w ago

You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

My daughter says pokemon cards

4w ago

Where would you live if money and/or visa requirements weren't an issue?

Modern_medicine_isnt @lemmy.world 4w ago

Somewhere close enough to the equator do have a decent amount of sun all year. But also close enough to mountains with snow and lakes and oceans. Then I would build a massive climate controlled dome. From that dome I would build high speed trains forme to get to the other places in about 15 minutes. I don’t like humidity or too much heat, but I do like a lot of sun and water. Snow is great for hot tubbing.

4w ago

If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

Modern_medicine_isnt @lemmy.world 4w ago

Sounds like you forgot to consider the energy cost of developing each AI model. Developing and maintaining a model is vastly more energy intense than 3d game dev. Keep in mind that you can ship a 3d game and ramp down gpu use for dev. But an AI model has to be constantly updated, mostly by completely retraining. Also, noone was clamoring to build massive data centers just to develope one game. Yet they are for one model.

4w ago

If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

Modern_medicine_isnt @lemmy.world 4w ago

You're both right. The extreme hype means it isn't yet all that useful. But it doesn't mean it won't get there. Once it is there, they won't need to hype it as much.

1mo ago

What's a song in a language you don't speak that still gets you dancing and yelling along hyped?

La cocuracha (or however it is spelled)

1mo ago

Hot Take Time: What is a popular long-running franchise that just needs to stop?

I enjoyed andor. The first 1.5 seasons were pretty solid. Then they started "discovering" characters who were in Rouge One and doingbtheir usual BS where we are all supposed to faint because someone we know shows up...

1mo ago

When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day"

I feel like it changes the meaning of "day". In some contexts, day is the daylight hours... but in this context it is from when you removed up to when you went to sleep. So it feels a bit more timezone agnostic. But only a tiny bit. This would be more ture if you were comparing have a good afternoon to have a good day.

But the real answer. Someone just didn't like saying the same thing over and over, so threw in some variation. Someone else who wanted to suck up to them started using it. Others just happened to follow.

1mo ago

How do you work at a job where you fundamentally disagree with the company's ethics?

And ask yourself why did they stop caring? They needed more profit, and caring costs a lot. So they tried to lower the level of care to see if they could squeeze profits. Enshitification. The race to the bottom. Couldn't compete with companies making a cheaper product long term. All are really caused by profit being the primary purpose of the company.

And as someone else pointed out, the brand got sold. If it was so successful, they wouldn't have sold it. Clearly it wasn't generating enough profit despite the quality.

Side note, I had one back in the day, those thing sure were solid at the time.

1mo ago

What's a movie quote that gives you goosebumps?