u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)

I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.
I am also dumb and worthless.
My laptop is ThinkPad L390y running Arch.
I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.

SDF Unix shell username: user224

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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Gemini, because I don’t need a separate account.

    Looking up things that may be hard to find otherwise, or at least attempting to. Hell, it once cited me a blog on website that didn’t even have a domain name.

    And it can be useful to quickly either remember or find how to use some program. Get the command from LLM, check what it does in the man page and use what’s needed. Faster than just reading through a man page from scratch.

    It’s like 90% accurate, so it’s often faster to just verify the information than research on my own (possibly due to how shitty search engines become).

    On the other hand, with certain more obscure things it will just claim that such a thing doesn’t exist, saying that there is a misunderstanding on human side. For example when I tried searching for a certain cheap data plan.


  • I think we just have to accept that no solution is 100%. You just need some balance between success and side effects.

    As long as people can communicate, it will to some extent spread. So really, the only truly 100% solution would be a couple of nuclear bombs all around the world. Look at that, crime rates went to 0!

    I am not really intelligent or knowledgeable enough to provide best-balance solutions.

    Anyway, as far as limiting access to porn, perhaps it could be done privately. You could have some trusted verification platform, perhaps even government provided, deal with it with cryptographic signature, maybe as I said, I am too dumb for solutions.
    My idea is, the website that wants to verify your age knows the public key of the government provided service used for this purpose (who already has your data anyway), and generates some random data in base64. You copy that, paste it into the verification website, they sign it, and give you the base64-encoded response. You then paste the response into website that wants to verify your age, it verifies the signature and then that you’re 18+.

    Basically just trusted authority saying “verified being 18+”. The website doesn’t know who you are, verification system doesn’t know what you wanted that verification for.

    Of course, you could verify that for anyone else, but I can also walk into a shop, buy cigarettes, alcohol and give them to a kid. Not 100%, but good enough.