Thank you all for your advice, it is most appreciated and I will put it to good use.

Same. I’m at the point where if I never sat behind a computer again, I think I would be ok with that. Also, video games and their crappy consoles suck now too.

If I am understanding this correctly, I guess the only problem I see with that is both entities need to trust that the user is indeed being truthful and not sharing a token. I think a system with a neutral third part that takes a token from the identity provider and a token from the webite, validates them and sends a result. Or maybe that is what you said.

Yes but how does that prevent the authority, in this case a govenment, from being able to link the token that was used (QR code) back to what it was used for?

Yes, I’ve been getting very bad vibes from that place for a while now. It seems very filtered and the content is no longer reflective of what people upvote. It’s tracking more to corporate interests and propaganda. Also, I think a lot of people have unintentionally divulged their most private information and don’t even know it. Their innermost thought expressed in comments, likes dislikes cataloged in votes, all under the false sense of an anonymity. It would be very easy, especially now with AI, to link IPs, browser thumbprints, and writing style analysis back to individual people, at a mass scale. I think a reckoning is coming.

That moderator should be un-moderated.

Whatever the case, I am sure it will be short lived. Assuming the adults are put back in control.

Ironically the only thing that will ever work is identifying a user to a person in one form or another. Otherwise it’s just a never ending arms race.

I started talking to a friend about this and he called me a tin foil hat wearing conspiracist and said even if it’s true him and his company is making money off of it so he doesn’t care.

Well they are building data centers like they want to have enough resources to do just that.

There is also survivorship bias. Who knows how many attacks have been prevented that we do not know about.

Right. It doesn’t need parity with developers, it just needs to be cheap enough to justify the replacement. Also, there are an army of developers right now trying to make it happen, building guardrails and frameworks and even new languages to enable it. If you are an “ok” developer and you don’t have a plan B, you’re going to be hurting an a few years.

Couldn’t this also just end up as a command economy masquerading as capitalism? Basically the oligarchs get together and say ok game over we win, lets divide up whatever is left and milk that cash cow into perpetuity?

Still better than reddit.

Thanks for the explanation. Sorry, I’m new to this platform and I did not even realize you replied until now. Thank you for clearing this up for me.

Whatever happened to the theory that it hit his body armor first and deflected up into his neck? I haven’t looked into this in awhile, but recall seeing a video that looked like that is what happened. That would explain the loss in velocity.

The only thing stopping a mass exodus is that there is no single version of Linux that is just dominating. I know that defeats the purpose of Linux, but that is what the dumb masses (such as myself) want. We want easy, and we don’t want to be special. If I have a problem I want a thousand others with the same problem, not my own little unique problem that I have to take hours away from my day to fix.

For the record, my upvote is for visibility. I do not like this.

Same. At most I got 15 years left and I doubt I will ever see this changing in my lifetime.

It really doesn’t matter if facial recognition is enabled or not today, it can always be done later on. This is a huge invasion of privacy.