Em Adespoton

Where is the digital ID required? Because they can’t suddenly require that all computing devices in existence support it.

Is it only for accessing major social media websites? Only for device sales?

Because it seems to me neither of those will make a significant dent in use of older devices; might even drive more people to the Fediverse.

My family all shares that birthday too, but we were born in 1932.

It’s like any controlled substance ban — unless there’s a really invasive crack-down it just shifts the problem to a less safe black market.

Making things easy and safe to access with controls that are adjustable is always more effective than an outright ban that shifts the access fully into unregulated territory.

Thing is, it doesn’t create a registry of what content adults access. Just what content their registered identity accesses.

The whole thing is wrongheaded in the first place; any child wanting to access adult-only content will use an adult’s account to do so; any adult attempting to access adult-only content is likewise going to use an adult’s account.

So unless they’re tying this to biometrics that are actually secure against an adverserial child, all the system really does is creates a registry of adults. And we already have those.

That tends to happen with exponential acceleration.

Just have a dedicated browser used for the login that is excluded from your DNS.

I run my own, so data at rest is encrypted and the transport layer is TLS encrypted; there’s no data layer encryption option that I can see through.

Doesn’t NextCloud fall under this? They offer professional cloud services if you don’t want to stand up your own instance — that’s how they make their money.

I started my self hosting journey with email, but I did it in 1993 when things were much simpler. IMO, email self-hosting isn’t worth it today (and if you do it, definitely set up a VPS as a relay and don’t try to MX directly from a consumer IP).

Self-hosting works great for everything but email. Email these days requires a commercial IP for the MX unless you want to get blocked, so the closest you can get is hosting on a VPS.

Or, it may not.

Depends on how it’s done; using Hyper-V, definitely.

Using QEMU? The network traffic will all be linked back against the QEMU UUID, but that’s it. Disposable QEMU image via TOR? It gets harder to track back.

What happens if you hang a picture of an attentive driver in front of the camera?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc&list=RDJne9t8sHpUc&start_radio=1&pp=ygUYaXJvbmljIGFsYW5pcyBtb3Jpc3NldHRloAcB

Yes, it has huge issues. But not on the regulatory or even privacy sides (where there are some obvious issues, but not on the level of services like Venmo).

Look up “Ironic” on Spotify.

Venmo is privacy intrusive and has minimal security. PayPal at least has reasonable processes and requirements in place. PayPal is registered as a bank and has to follow all the financial laws.

In answer to your main question: no; despite what Alannis Morissette said, that’s not irony without more context.

Just so you know, turning all that off only limits SOME of the telemetry going back to Microsoft. You can’t turn it all off.

And many will die young as a result of their parents’ beliefs.