Hacker News: VerdisQuo5678

New comment by VerdisQuo5678 in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

VerdisQuo5678 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:14:06 +0000

its already happened that tea app got all its ID verification photos stolen and published online and yet were still going full steam ahead

New comment by VerdisQuo5678 in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

VerdisQuo5678 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:35:18 +0000

...sweet summer child visa is hitting DLSite hard https://cs.dlsite.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500002888202-What-p... actually it seems all the major western credit card players have already blocked them. i remember seeing pay with crypto so i guess thats what you need to use in the west

New comment by VerdisQuo5678 in "How to Firefox"

VerdisQuo5678 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:53:49 +0000

firefox has had profiles for years, maybe decades its hidden in about:profiles i guess they're just adding a proper ui now

New comment by VerdisQuo5678 in "Ask HN: What should we do about state ID legislation?"

VerdisQuo5678 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:29:23 +0000

>I haven't heard of this. Is Reddit enforcing ID verification

just double checked, thyre enforcing you to validate a date of birth with an external camera based system

>Generative AI is administering the fatal injection. This experiment has nearly reached its conclusion.

i was hoping to avoid draw a defitionist conclusion for this. it seems like thats whats the world is doing. theres literally no pushback to this IRL, most of the public seem to be in favor of these IDs system

Ask HN: What should we do about state ID legislation?

VerdisQuo5678 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:09:20 +0000

On July 25th the UK government will start enforcing ID checks to access porn sites. Any site which allows UK residents to connect to is forced to comply, or face major fines. Ofcom, the regulator, has ordered both large (like Reddit which no longer allows anonymous access to NSFW subreddits in the UK) and niche sites (Certain dating apps, grindr, etc) to comply. Somewhat interestingly this law only effects "user-to-user" content instead of all porn sites. Additionally US courts now uphold state ID laws https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397799 and the EU is planning to roll out ID verification infrastructure aswell.

Even if you could not care less, or hate porn, you can clearly see the direction the first world is going in. The aforementioned US ruling already includes anything sexual, even text, naturally including LGBT topics and sex education. Is there anything we can do to combat this and hold out the open internet a little longer?

The best I can think of is a neocities but for tor, making it easy to transition some useful content to somewhere with less prying eyes. I am also dismayed about the lack of coverage on this issue, a few years ago when states started rolling out ID verification it was news worthy, even in other countries. Now not even a blip on the radar, its somewhat surreal.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596964

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New comment by VerdisQuo5678 in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

VerdisQuo5678 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:15:09 +0000

Is there anything we can actually do to combat this? Im short of ideas, tho the 33% rule can be potentially worked around by generating loads of fake content similar to a previous poster who generates fake content for scrapers to eat Im in the UK and they recently passed a similar law banning any explicit _imagery_, which I already thought was bad but the land of freedom beats us out again, the literally surveillance state, at least that's that's enforced top down by ofcom instead of an army of injury lawyers so it works at ofcom's speed

New comment by VerdisQuo5678 in "Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing"

VerdisQuo5678 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:19:37 +0000

Doesnt android already have a "network" permission? On some roms you can enable it/disable it on install of the app even

New comment by VerdisQuo5678 in "My 16-month theanine self-experiment"

VerdisQuo5678 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:41:28 +0000

i hope your 1 person isn't a masochist

New comment by VerdisQuo5678 in "Privacy Is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset"

VerdisQuo5678 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:48:55 +0000

I dont understand the needed distinction between "chromium" and "non-chromium" browsers, thyre just web engines and ultimately technical details. Although chromium having significantly more compatibility (or chrome features that websites use) the average consumer will be using websites that keep strict accordance with webstandards to support safari. For technical users its another story but for the average user the web engine of your browser doesnt matter, just the shell around it, so I find it quite silly the notion we need X browser and also an X chromium browser

New comment by VerdisQuo5678 in "Introducing deep research"

VerdisQuo5678 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:54:59 +0000

The accuracy of this tool does not matter. This is exclusively designed for box ticking "reports" that nobody reads and a produced for the sake of itself.

New comment by VerdisQuo5678 in "[dead]"

VerdisQuo5678 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:50:23 +0000

Hi hacker news! please pardon me because this is my first proper blog post, however I hope its still something valuable