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  • New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level

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  • It only takes one kid to figure out the bypass and it spreads all the kids. Some of those kids are talking to kids going to other schools.

    every week my kids hear about a new game the school isn't blocking while they are in class. Sometimes the teachers catch them, but kids are good at hiding what they are doing - and switching to what they should do when the teacher comes near.

  • New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level

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  • I can't - teachers give them homework that must be done on the device all the time.

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  • Every week my kid hears about another game (not boobs) that the school didn't block and thus they can play when the teacher isn't looking. There are also a lot of non educational youtube videos they can watch, but since some of their real educational videos are on youtube they don't block most. (Again youtube will block boobs - but that is not all I'm worried about)

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  • They are only easy to setup if you don't care about getting them right. Either you block a lot of useful content (only approved, audited things allowed), or you block only things that are known evil (that is you audited it). Either way the vast majority of the internet is not audited and we have no idea which of that is good vs evil. (nevermind trying to get a consistent definition of good/evil). The name "onlyfans" makes me think of sports fans and thus something I'd allow kids to access - of course I know better, I'll be there is someone out there who would be setting up the firewall who doesn't know it is in fact adult content.

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  • Age verification needs to be done by someone (probably a government agency, though it need not be) who has verified age. That someone needs to be legally liable (and able to enforce) the tracking rules for anyone who uses their system to verify age. You want to verify someone's age with me, first you need to prove you are following our privacy rules - including our regular random audits.

    It needs a better cryptologist than me to get the details of the above system right.

    Of course if even if you have the above I'm not sure how you will get anyone to use it. Perhaps we can have schools put a hard block on any system that doesn't follow the above system, but the vast majority of the web isn't going to opt-in. Note in particular this includes a lot of the useful sites I as a parent want my kids to access so it won't help me as a parent.

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  • As a voters you don't get much a choice. In any voting system there is a case where all your choices are for something you are a hard no on.

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  • No we can't. We try, but kids are not 100% of the time in our sight. They are sitting in their chair "doing homework", but when they see us coming they switch apps - who knows what they are doing. They are getting up at 3am when we are a sleep, again doing who knows what. Even if we put controls on, anytime there is a way to bypass the control (often a website that looks good enough to fool the automated approval system school has set up) that will spread to the entire school and all kids get access to that for a week in school before it is shutdown.

    If you want age verification to work, you need a strong legal effort (international!) so that anyone who makes something online that gets kids (intentionally or not) faces a strong enough legal issue (read years in prison) that it is really stops this. Part of that is enough money for investigation so that it is a given you will be caught. I don't think you can do this, and so the whole effort is pointless.

  • Is private age verification technically possible and if so how?

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  • Problem is an OS is not a useful part of this. My kids are perfectly able to install linux on a pi - and this is something I want to encourage in general (I don't think they have, but they could), thus giving them root access - including access to things in the package repo that I may not approve of. It is a hard problem and I can't always be there.

  • Is private age verification technically possible and if so how?

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  • How am I supposed to take care of my kids? My kid has got up at 3am and used his school device to do things I don't want. The thing wasn't supposed to be allow by the school but the bypass (web site not blocked) wasn't one the school will find out and block. Bypasses like that spread fast in schools.

  • Is private age verification technically possible and if so how?

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  • Devices have them, but they are not very good. I'ma parent and there are thing i want to block that I can't and others I want to allow but a on different rules than their system has.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • What matters is the whole community. Statistically it happens to someone in your community. Society wasted a lot of fuel (read global warming) just on low tire pressure.

    Surveillance is a problem. So is global warming.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • They can, but both of those are often encrypted such that it is at least hard. TPMS isn't encrypted so it is easy to figure out what cars are going by.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • You can get close enough just clipping some weights of the same weight as the sensor to the valve stem. A static balance isn't hard to do - not nearly as good as the proper dynamic balance the tire shop will do, but often good enough.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • If you didn't check your tire pressure in the last 20 minutes how do you know you didn't just drive over a nail and get a slow leak? TPMS checks every few seconds so you know when there is a small problem. Anyone will notice a fully flat tire, but a lot of people used to drive on low tire pressure for months without knowing. Once someone knew their tire had a problem they would check daily (until they got it fixed), but many people never knew in the first place, and even though who did know often took a week before they found out - they of course have no way to know since nobody checked their tire pressure daily much less every 20 minutes.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • Depends on the attacker. The GPS is better if you have access to the car, but getting that is hard. Any idiot with a radio can read the TPMS sensors of every car going by - there is nothing that even slows them down.

  • What should one give to the homeless population besides money? If you were homeless at one time, what did you need besides money?

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  • better laws.

    if houses/apartments are expensive the poor lose first so ensure it is legal to build tiny houses, shared bathroom/kitchen apartments... ensure there isn't so much paperwork that only expensive places can apply. Be careful about tenat rights - they are needed but don't lost sight of landlord rights in the process.

    some are homeless because society has left no optians - things are getting better but there are still some out there that can't be anything else because if they get a job their ex takes all they earn anyway.

    Unfortunantly the problem is hard. we know from painful experience that the abuse in institutions is often so bad risking freezing to death is the more human option. Be careful that what you propose / support isn't also worse.

  • What's the point of cookies? Like, on websites and apps.

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  • Not all are. Some are gross. Some gluten free ones for example (not all, but some)

  • Anyone have some good electric cars?

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  • I have a Chevy Blazer which is nice except it lacks android auto. If I drove professionally their OnStar is enough better than Android Auto (and I assume Car Play) as to be worth the price, but I don't drive much and so it isn't worth the cost.

    My wife has a Pacifica PHEV which is a decent compromise - we probably save $200/month by driving electric, but can make long trips through desolate areas without worrying about finding a charge (some of them are desolate enough that we have to worry about finding gas - though if you plan either will work: gas just needs planning the next 20 miles while electric is plan the next null.

  • Digital "bulletin board" for tasks.

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  • I use grocy for chore /task management. Then home assistant to put it on a dashboard that looks nice. I'm not totally happy but it is the best I've found.