It’s the same kind of people who think Socialism means Communism, without realizing that anything funded by taxpayers is already, technically, a socialized knowledge/service/product. That includes the roads their vehicles drive on and the military if you want to put it that far.

One might incorporate principles of the other, but that doesn’t make it the other product automatically.

In the meantime, the Poopaganda machine will continue running with the kind of ignorance being shown.

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Every time a service rolls out one of these verification mechanisms, I really, REALLY hope they remain true to their word that age verification is only being done locally, and nothing is being sent out to a remote server… and they never change those rules in some privacy policy update.

k-ID is a company I haven’t personally heard of, but I know other companies like LinkedIn use companies such as Persona for Identity verification. Several months ago, I had a spat with LinkedIn as part of making an account where they tried to force me to scan my Government ID as well as a copy of my face to a third party company called Persona. The only difference is, while they claim the scans were only going to be stored temporarily for verification purposes and then deleted, the simple fact that they are storing anything is about as far from “On Device” as you can get. Needless to say, I did not scan my ID to LinkedIn, and I had to force them to delete the newly created account.

What I’m most particularly bothered by is how many of these verification services require a mobile phone and a mobile app to do.

It will actually be for both! Emphasis on the part of the article where it says China will still have a stake of 20% in the company, AND they get to keep the algorithm.

All the US is doing is buying up physical assets and infrastructure, and the user base. The juicy bits they wanted, they didn’t get. Everyone is likely going to jump off of TikTok the moment it comes time to segment the US market from the Rest of the World. China doesn’t have to do a thing because Douyin is already maintained separately for the Chinese market.

No.

It’s the gun analogy. Guns don’t kill people. People with guns kill people. People with guns kill people over disagreements they can’t properly resolve, or lunacy. Guns are a tool for hunting for food, but caveman brain leads to them being used as both deterrents, and as misused weapons.

If Fox News promotes lunacy and caters to lunacy, then they should probably be dealt with and taken off the air. My biggest problem with Fox is just how awful their opinion segments (most of their runtime) are and sound. My goodness, I lose IQ just listening to it for more than two seconds. When Fox News reports on news, and only news, without an opinion, they are fine.

Let me guess! If you try to use PiHole or some other network Adblocking mechanism, the Fridge will either brick itself OR will fail to start the compressor. Right? It’s not like that didn’t happen before, when Google Calendar went down. We all know this is going to happen, and Samsung is going to push this wide scale. The extra revenue from ad space is too irresistible to avoid doing the sensible thing.

The smartest any of my Fridges ever became was having a small computer on the front panel to record voice messages, which also doubled as the Water/Ice dispenser function selector, and to have a timer on the dispenser light so it could turn on and off automatically. That was an Amana fridge I had back in 2002, which lasted until 2019. My current fridge has a basic computer inside of it to monitor and control the interior climate, to save energy by recirculating cold air from the freezer into the Fridge, and to beep loudly if there’s a problem.

Microsoft does on Home Edition without even asking, and it doesn’t provide the users with a choice to store the key locally OR put it on the Cloud account, like Windows Pro does. I’m sure Microsoft has a master key to an account as well. But one can hope they do not, and they are also storing those BitLocker keys in an encrypted fashion in whatever database runs the backend.

Also agree with you on TPMs. They are useful when invoked by the user, like for passkey or secrets storage. DRM on content and software is, and always will be, anti-consumer. As for now secure TPMs are, I know Infineon did have that Random Number Generator bug which basically broke the TPMs. So there’s that.

You’d be surprised. I did a super quick skim of the article, and didn’t see any mention of age group. There’s a lot of talk about how the newer generation of humans struggle to read Analog clocks, because many of them grew up to Digital clocks.

There are also analog clocks that are just awful to read anyways.

Yep, exactly this. You can bypass the TPM and Processor requirements, but at some point it will come back to bite someone in the butt.

Microsoft with the 24H2 update broke Windows 11 for older systems (like Core2Duo, which are already ancient) due to a lack of required processor instructions. I’ve seen systems running under QEMU, and also on newer systems like the AMD Ryzen Zen1 platform experience “Unsupported Processor” BSODs preventing the system from booting.

Even outside of that, Microsoft doesn’t deploy the yearly feature roll-ups to systems with unsupported hardware, even if Windows 11 is already installed. I’ve seen many unsupported systems end up stuck 1-2 builds behind, and they never see the update. They have to be manually updated using the same mechanisms that got Windows 11 installed in the first place.

Microsoft I believe, expects Windows 11 to be running on a minimum set of hardware, and that’s all they are qualifying it for. So older systems are going to eat it at some point if they are used in production.

The TPM checks are for security but, certainly not required if someone is willing to drop system security for some reason.