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MentalEdge

@ MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz

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Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.

  • Could online age verification be done in a way that protects privacy and autonomy?

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  • And did you seriously just try to use dismissing my trauma as a point, instead of a logical retort?

  • Could online age verification be done in a way that protects privacy and autonomy?

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  • It is teaching your kids that you do not trust them, and it is indulging your own paranoia.

    Only if you never lift the restrictions, and coddle instead of raise them.

    A parent buying their kid their first beer is a show of trust, and confidence in having prepared them. That they weren't allowed before isn't some paranoia about turning them into an alcoholist. It's about preparation and maturity.

    It is a display that shows that the parent feels their child is ready and responsible enough for the ability to decide themselves to be granted to them.

    A parent enforcing a rule before that is not some violation.

    Only, for the internet, the tools and know-how to do so are rare or non-existent.

    My parents did this with tons of things as me and my siblings grew up. Each time trusting us with a new piece of responsibility, when they felt we were ready.

    What kind of parent doesn't decide their childrens bedtime until they can sanely maintain their sleep schedule themselves?

    It was a big day when I was granted the ability to go to visit friends without asking permission first.

    Parental control and guidance is essential for the stage-by-stage raising of a child into adulthood. Both online and offline, only tools and practices around the former practically don't exist.

    Each parent is also on a deadline. When someone turns 18, all rules come off whether you're ready or not.

    As a parent, you should aim for your kid to be making as many decisions themselves as possible by then.

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    Parental control software existing is a terrible idea?

    There is insufficient incentive for games like Roblox to provide effective controls for parents to manage their childrens accounts.

    That should change.

    I was raised by loving and trustworthy parents. It didn't save me from curiosity leading me to things I was far, far too young to see. No amount of love and care can fix that.

    You do your kids no favors by sheltering them from reality.

    No. You let them learn to swim in he shallows to prepare them. Blind trust is like throwing them into the deep end and seeing if they figure it out before drowning.

    Having a supportive, loving and trustworthy environmnet didn't stop me from wanting to kill myself.

    I figured out how to swim, eventually. But I should not have had to.

    Are you seriusly suggesting that nothing bad will happen to children as long as their parents just care enough?

  • Could online age verification be done in a way that protects privacy and autonomy?

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  • That'd only work if legal sex acts were the worst thing a kid could find online. As someone who went spelunking online as a kid. I assure you theyre not.

    And the Roblox issue is hardly that of exposure to normal human biology.

    That said this stuff should be up to parents, and instead of verification requirements, we should have parental control requirements (as in, the tools for it should exist).

    On a lot of devices, I couldn't make them safe to hand to a kid without coding the tools myself.

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  • However, it's a one way change.

    How would you implement this? It would require devices so locked down you could never replace or even update the OS on them.

    The idea seems sound, but to implement this, hardware and software would have to go down a path they really, really shouldn't.

    This idea is essentially incompatible with FOSS.

  • TIL you can easily create a QR Code inside LibreOffice

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  • Online generators let you avoid the shortener if you tell them to encode "text".

    Link QRs are just text QRs, but it's a link. In a pinch you can use the "text" mode to encode whatever you need.

  • dennis

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  • Still wrong. Squeal.

  • Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address?

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  • I don't have a static IP, and I just make sure to never ever let my DHCP lease expire. My ISP provides the same IP to the same MAC when renewing the lease. My longest streak on the same IP was three years.

    As long as I always turn my router off by cutting the power, it won't release the lease, so I keep my IP even through reboots. My last one didn't release the lease at all, so it only ever got a new IP if it was off for over a day, or if I set a new MAC.

    When my IP does change, I've configured my DNS record to only last an hour. So updating the domain to point to a new IP only takes an hour to update.

  • vivipary in tomatoes

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  • Dashboard for my servers

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  • That's handled by nginx, which strips out the menu items when serving to external IP. Basically serving an html file that doesn't contain them to begin with.

  • Dashboard for my servers

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  • Yes I did.

  • Dashboard for my servers

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  • I just wrote my own.

    It's a single html file with links to all my services, served at the root of my nginx server.

    This is like v12, I've edited it over the years as what I host has changed. Adding the embedded searxng bar, as well as links to uptime kuma and openspeedtest.

    And it only works via lan/vpn.

    I'd be happy to let you copy it, provided you know how to edit it for your needs.

  • What a bargain!

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  • Considering there's only one "he".....

    Someone RETURNED HIM AFTER PURCHASE?! TF???

  • Xpanceo is making smart contact lenses a reality as soon as 2027

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  • Did you read the article?

    The contact lens is just the display, it still requires inductive power and external display source to really do anything. Plenty to "tear apart" and fit into existing equipment.

    The lens itself becoming a complete device in its entirety is something I think we are decades, potentially centuries from tech which is that minituarized. Smart rings exist, but they're still orders of magnitude simpler devices.

    If you're gonna be wearing a computer and battery on your temple anyway, why is sticking the display in your eyeball, the simplest solution here?

  • Here we go again

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  • I turned holodeck 3 into a torment nexus, guess who it's for.

  • Xpanceo is making smart contact lenses a reality as soon as 2027

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  • What sort of extreme environment would exclude other ways of having a hud?

    In you eye is an extreme way to do it, considering divers, pilots, drivers, astronauts etc. already wear or are surrounded by equipment this would be more easily integrated into.

  • What's the best thing made from potatoes?

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  • Really, really well made mashed potates is heavenly.

    Combine with the grease from some meat you're serving it with... Yum.

  • How do you effectively backup your high capacity (20+ TB) local NAS?

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  • Nice ragebait.

    If you genuinely still think that was my point in its entirety, you are truly obtuse.

  • How do you effectively backup your high capacity (20+ TB) local NAS?

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  • No.

    I'm saying 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% ≠ 100%

    For some people that's close enough. For some of us it's not.

    Prove otherwise. I dare you. I'm done putting in effort explaining the obvius to you. Your turn.