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New comment by nemomarx in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

nemomarx — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:48:14 +0000

If they're able to get a burner phone unsupervised then I think they could also pay an adult to do the face scan for them or borrow your ID from your purse to authenticate an account. What level of security would you need to totally prevent that kind of thing? Unless it checks your age every time you log in with biometrics I don't see it.

(Of course adding any level of friction will deter some kids, but needing to get a whole new device other than the one their parents gave them is already a lot of friction, isn't it?)

New comment by nemomarx in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

nemomarx — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:27:47 +0000

Well you never know, maybe selling the course is the profitable part?

New comment by nemomarx in "George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)"

nemomarx — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:30 +0000

1984 has fear and pain for the white collar set like the protagonist, but it's implied mass media, telescreens, and propaganda do for the working class there, which is similar to BNW's style and of course has overlap with Animal Farm.

A pretty good study of different flavors when taken together, though?

New comment by nemomarx in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

nemomarx — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:52:12 +0000

You could do something pretty interesting by looking at what pronouns people use for llms in different demographics and contexts

New comment by nemomarx in "The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces"

nemomarx — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:42:33 +0000

I don't mean to be combative, I've just genuinely never used a console with that. The perils of mostly using PCs and Nintendo ones, I guess? If it's standard with both Xbox and Sony that does cleanly explain the press any button screen, although I wonder why they leave it in for the PC ports.

New comment by nemomarx in "The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces"

nemomarx — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:12:25 +0000

Which consoles/ systems use the controller to determine which account is active?

At least on the switch you just have accounts in the upper left and switch between them regardless of controller. Is it a Sony implementation?

New comment by nemomarx in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

nemomarx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:45:32 +0000

4 is a more interesting pitch, but without knowing if the law requires the OS check the age somehow it's hard to say. I also think ideally it shouldn't be an actual age for privacy reasons? Ideally it should be a kind of adult / not adult flag that's on or off, presumably tied to other parental controls.

So if the legislation leans that way it would be interesting to discuss that part in particular.

New comment by nemomarx in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

nemomarx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:48:09 +0000

Steam only adds one overlay (which is pretty easy to toggle off). if you have another graphic change or overlay it's the devs or publisher who added it

There's a per game toggle for their UI overlay basically and you just need to uncheck a box

New comment by nemomarx in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

nemomarx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:20:00 +0000

why would it be a manager? hire a cheap intern to be the scapegoat, if the job market is bad enough. no reason for liability to fall on the suits

New comment by nemomarx in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

nemomarx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:41:22 +0000

It's probably a political point, but I think your comparison over sells how inconvenient it is for someone to geoblock one small country and the headache if anything did happen. It's not much more effort than doing nothing really?

And clearly users in the UK can find their own way to read it if they like, so the cost is also small there.

New comment by nemomarx in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

nemomarx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:59:21 +0000

Voter ID changes would be a lot easier to swallow with a free national id that you don't have to register or fill out paperwork to get.

Maybe add in automatic voter registration to sweeten the pot?

New comment by nemomarx in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

nemomarx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:26:59 +0000

Geo blocking the UK satisfies any age verification, otherwise the site owner would have to check if their content is considered adult in the UK and implement something.

New comment by nemomarx in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

nemomarx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:24:50 +0000

How can Congress put anything into a law saying that the courts can't override it? Doesn't that impinge on separation of powers?

New comment by nemomarx in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

nemomarx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:12:10 +0000

Age appropriate books intended for that still get banned, so the assumption is just that the decisions about it won't be made in good faith. "X has two dads" kind of books aren't really adult, and yet...

New comment by nemomarx in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

nemomarx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:00:09 +0000

discussion of sex ed / lgbtq topics often falls under obscenity laws or age filtering, so queer youth might not be able to read it anymore, is the general worry.

New comment by nemomarx in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

nemomarx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:48:28 +0000

I didn't even know a bill could be listed without the text being out.

Too early to discuss much though?

New comment by nemomarx in "'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking"

nemomarx — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:22:13 +0000

You might like something closer to powerwash sim?

New comment by nemomarx in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

nemomarx — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:03:32 +0000

I liked it better at 10 a month tbh. If they keep increasing the price like Amazon they need to offer more features to compensate.

New comment by nemomarx in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

nemomarx — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:18:27 +0000

We also restrict the components of those pretty heavily, though. Try buying too much fertilizer without a farm and see who shows up.

This isn't a judgement on your general point, but I think bombs and bioweapons and etc are very bad examples for you here.

New comment by nemomarx in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

nemomarx — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:01:07 +0000

Can they try providing equal service to that? Ie, localized into English at the same time as the fans group, fast loading site, etc. In my experience they're usually noticeably behind in those areas even with a subscription active.