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  • PlayStation is planning to add age verification to its consoles

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  • Because realistically nobody is against it. People can whine all the want, they will verify anyway rather than miss out on online gaming, social media, porn etc. You personally might be the outlier and maybe you even convinced your family and friends, but sadly unless at the bare minimum 50% of users outright leave the platform enforcing age verification they couldn't care less about our feelings.

  • Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

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  • Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

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  • EU age verification app announced to protect children online

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  • Thanks, the article was entirely useless, just glazing the proposal.

    While this is a better turd than k-ID and the likes, it's still a turd. What is this supposed to achieve? Doesn't stop kids from accessing anything, but hinders VPN usability (tunneling into ID requiring locations is going to be useless, as you can't verify) and lays out the foundation for labeling anything as "adult" content, which we all know never stops at actual adult content.

  • EU age verification app announced to protect children online

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  • The tool could soon help users prove their age online without sharing personal data

    Once released, users will be able to download the app from an app store and set it up using proof of identity, such as a passport or national ID card.

    Officials say the app will be "completely anonymous" and built on open-source technology, meaning it could also be adopted outside the EU.

    The fuck am I reading?

  • From Molotov cocktails to data center shutdowns, the AI backlash is turning revolutionary

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  • Even if RAM they use in data centers was compatible with consumer hardware, the companies would sooner burn it all and eat the loss than let us have it. They are sitting pretty right now - they have 0 reason to ever go back to the reasonable prices.

  • Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs

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  • I've had Windows installed on the same machine since 8 through 11. Not even a full reinstall ever took longer than 20min at most, counting the downloads. 11 updates roughly once a month, sometimes 2-3 smaller updates a month if there were some issues, sometimes it can go a month without anything, and I had the "get updates first" ticked in the settings. Every single time it estimates a 4min update and it never takes longer than that. Not once did I have any of the issues you listed. Not sitting on some crazy new hardware either, an 11 years old SATA SSD and an ok internet. I very rarely skipped updates on my PC, but I did once update a very old laptop and it took 30min only because it had a measly 8GB of RAM and an HDD.

    I'm now on Cachy and I do update every day or multiple times a day, but I wouldn't go on a rant if I missed half a year worth of updates and then had to wait some time for it to install. In half a year, even slow distros had a major update. And I simply do not buy that anyone outside of HDD and unstable internet users had to wait more than 1h at absolute worst to install a half a year load of updates.

    How is this unreasonable? What is Windows supposed to do? Personally come to your house to ensure you are still getting updated? You don't even have to use it daily, as the author said - they chose to stare at the update button (which again I don't even understand the point of anyway, Windows won't magically offer you more updates if you click it more times, this is the same logic as clicking the pedestrian push button more than once), which means for regular users the updates would've installed in the background or outside of working hours and they wouldn't even notice.

  • Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs

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  • "I enrolled my laptop into Windows 11 Insiders Program that delivers updates on a more frequent basis, turned it off for half a year and then got mad that I missed a bunch of updates, so I decided to sit there and mash the update button to constantly ping for updates instead of doing literally anything else while it's updating, because I wanted to run tests and had to be fully up-to-date."

    Microslop got a lot of issues, but this is fucking ridiculous, the author sounds insufferable.

    "But who in the temple is going to sit there for 10 minutes or more while this downloads new updates and reboots?"

    Oh, idk, people who don't enroll themselves into a faster paced update cycle.

    "And may the gods help you if you buy a brand new PC that's been sitting on a shelf for months or years. You might have hours of updates after you first take it out of the box."

    I don't know a single piece of electronic that doesn't require updating after purchasing. Hours, though? Is this guy on a 10kbps connection or where is this fantasy coming from?

  • I'm finally moving to Bitwarden. What are some mistakes I shouldn't make so I don't lose my account?

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  • Do you have a family member or a close friend who is tech savvy and is also using BW? If yes - you could set up an emergency access, so that they can initiate an account takeover should you somehow entirely lose access to everything and need it recovered. The original intent is to take control of an account of a deceased person.

    If that's not an option - just save your master PW somewhere offline. Another person suggested paper, but honestly evaluate your own threat levels and consider having an offline backup of it on a device that never connects to the internet (e.g. a flash drive that you only connect with the internet turned off). You can also make an offline export of your vault onto that USB in case you get locked out and need at least your data recovered. Generally don't overthink your master PW, a 10 word passphrase with a number is good enough, if it's not a grammatical sentence - even better, it can even be not in English. There are also ways you can "salt" your PW in addition, say, your PW is hello-friend-joke-inventing5, you can save it as housing2-hello-friend-joke-inventing500 and just remember to remove the extras. If you are not specifically targeted and don't click on fishing links, then honestly even if you save your master PW in your own BW vault nothing will happen, even less so if it's salted.

    The only way to truly mess up your vault is to change keys without logging out your devices, but BW explicitly warns you at each step of that process, so it's up to you not to ignore the warnings.

  • Just found out that you can CTRL+T in fedora's installation GUI to browse web pages in firefox, amazing!

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  • I installed Cachy on a GTX980 PC, but had to use nomodeset, so if you wanna install some distros that are using incompatible drivers in the live ISO give nomodeset a try.

  • Just found out that you can CTRL+T in fedora's installation GUI to browse web pages in firefox, amazing!

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  • Oh is that why that happens? I just thought Nouveau drivers were incompatible with old Nvidia cards.

  • Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs

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  • That's actually part of the motivation behind russian internet isolation, their head bitch leading the charge on it believes that the internet "violates the existence of borders in the world".

  • Windows 11’s push for mandatory Microsoft accounts is hitting a nerve with users who say the change complicates setup, privacy, and basic PC ownership

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  • Rufus can still bypass every single W11 requirement and automatically complete the setup for you, including a local account.

  • I Decompiled the White House's New App— The app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

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  • Definitely a performance problem, no HW acceleration on PC produces the same insanely stuttery scroll.

  • Bitwarden 100% price increase

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  • While the increase is not a huge deal because the total is still cheaper than alternatives, the thing that irks me is how they did indeed just announce it via a blog post titled "Bitwarden launches enhanced premium plan: Complete online security for everyone". This reads like there's going to be free, premium and premium+ at best, and "we are just adding more stuff to the premium" at worst, not implying a price bump, at least to me. I did not get my renewal email yet, so can't confirm whether or not they don't even mention the annual price, but rather just the monthly one. Another thing that kind of bothers me is that they list "Vault health alerts" as a new thing, while it's always been there. While "Phishing blocker" just seems like a feature outside of the scope of a password manager.

    All in all, double the price in exchange for x5 more storage and x2 more hardware keys is fine to me, but I hope they improve their communication and actually properly inform users of upcoming pricing changes.

  • Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next

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  • And have you tried running said built-in wireguard on ISPs that block it? Spoiler: you can't.

  • Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next

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  • Ultimately the end goal is going to become using whitelists, as what some of the aforementioned countries have implemented/are implementing as we speak. Do not delude yourself into thinking that just because there will be at least some way to send a very short, lightweight message out into the world and receive a similarly small response while remaining undetected, then it has to mean that you as an everyday Joe will be able to browse yourfavourite.site as if it didn't get blocked. Stop this while you still can, don't count on incompetence or existing circumvention methods.

  • Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026

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  • Ironically the install ISO actually went up in size from roughly 5.5GB to 7.5GB in the recent months.

  • [Solved] Is it possible to use the camera from my android phone instead of my laptop camera?

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