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olivier

@ olivier @lemmy.fait.ch

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  • Why is checking age at os-level that bad?

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  • Just because they are responsible doesn't mean the have the means to exert their responsibility. Demanding birth-date upon (local) account creation would allow them to better exert that responsiblity.

  • Why is checking age at os-level that bad?

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  • It can be done like that, but then it'd be (trivially) fake-able by anyone with root permissions on their own computer. But then, my point is that kids shouldn't be root of their computers, so let's just parents vouch for children's age, and leave everything more complicated out.

    From what I understood, the rules (in California?) would be : a) Every operating system provider must collect the user’s age or date of birth during the initial account setup process. b) The OS must classify the user into one of the four defined age brackets: under 13 years old, 13–15 years old, 16–17 years old, or 18 years and older. c) This information must be made available to application developers through a real-time API as soon as an application is launched or downloaded.

    Unless I've missed something, I could definitely live with that. I haven't seen anything more acceptable when it comes to age verification. Point a) doesn't need to prove age or date of birth.

    Now there is a small issue that came to my mind since my first post, which might be quite problematic : if ANY website is able to tell whether ANY user is a child, it'll be as easy to keep children out of certain sites that it'll be easy to keep adults out of others.

    Imagine a bulletin board with highly disturbing/predatory content which would ONLY show to kids? Whenever mom or dad checks, website is all normal. And that would be real bad, probably worse than our current, no age verified situation.

  • Anyone using Revolt?

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  • oh, right, that too.... too bad, because UI/UX wise it has been pretty slick at some point

  • Anyone using Revolt?

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  • Be careful of rocketchat : beside some exotic technology choices (meteor), they seem to be in a dynamic of re-closing previously opensource parts of it. Something like that already occured with their ldap implementation (it needed some love, but sadly they give them closed-source love...)

  • Create a retention period for online backup storage

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  • you might want to add borg, restic and - more recently - plakar to that list

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  • Why not something like NAS4Free or OpenMediaVault, then? You don't have to chose between DIY and paid-for, there is a middle-ground

  • Looking for near equivalent alternatives

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  • their snapshots are marked as copy on write, so my assumption is that for every write, there is replication somewhere.

    I might be wrong here, but my understanding is that their snapshots are the kind we find in modern filesystems (ZFS/BTRFS/...) : that is a point-in-time kind of functionnality, where a file will be duplicated (and the original version then will only belong to the snapshot) only when it is written to. This is just the way snapshots are implemented here - and a rather common way of doing it efficiently - not a reliability feature.

  • Nextcloud and Thinkfree Office sign partnership agreement to add more choices for users - Nextcloud

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  • Nope, doesn't seem so at all. I'll stay with the web version of LibreOffice, myself (and OnlyOffice as a second choice if the first one were to went south)