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Why has to be the government if anything could be done by health providers and be guarded by the existing privacy laws that don’t allow the government to indiscriminately access it

What case can I buy if I don’t have a 3D printer?

You can buy most ATX (or derivative) cases and have an adapter bracket printed from services like JLPCB. Make sure the material is ABS or another high temperature plastic to resist heat warp.

You can find 3d printed cases on eBay for $50. The BC-250 slides into one end and a fan goes in a funnel end, and boom, functional if a little odd in shape.

Would it be possible to build something that works at the os level? And is built in the system itself instead of depending on google services ? I mean I don’t think it requires internet access all the time

Yes, Russian MIR system works this way.

https://glenbrook.com/payments_news/russias-mir-domestic-pay...

Just an application which emulates the card over NFC. No need to Google Play Services. It's been this way for ≈10 years I guess.


Is not what happened? WWU announced on 28 July that they would file for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. The announcement also accused the Wikimedia Foundation of being disingenuous in their public communications:

Also on the communication by wales he says he wasn’t happy with the election because people knew who voted for, but he didn’t deny there was some kinda of election?


The Meaningless and absurdity part comes from doing the same thing over and over, and it’s done as a punishment and not to serve a grand purpose.

You can see something similar on humans with myth if you can call it that where humans humans must work after the sin of Adam and eve


I think you should read the paper I shared since it explains the prespective much better.

I will, thanks

I work as an interpreter (independent contractor) and recently built an automation with google sheets and apps script with claude code, funny enough Claude end up being better than anything google offers for their platform.

Basically the agency I work pays every two weeks and the time between I receive an assignment and the the time i get paid for that assignment is about 45minutes.

I built an automation, that when I get a new assignment it automatically adds the assignment to my calendar, to the spreadsheet and it calculates the mileage using google maps API.

Then the spreadsheet calculates how much I’m gonna get in the following 2 paychecks and the one that’s currently running.


The target to these tactics the companies make is children and still adults these companies don’t properly label their products, and I believe we need to make something about it

They used to be advertising for cigarettes, cocaine used to be sold as medicine for headaches, etc. things change and there are things that are not healthy for a society that the society itself decided

At that point why not have a human cleaning service it will probably be cheaper

it's not cheap at all and the privacy and logistical implications of letting a stranger inside your house is something not everyone wants to deal with. I would rather have a robot.

Suggesting that a robot is the more privacy friendly option is an interesting take.

Why not? A recording from a robot can be potentially viewed by a real human, if the company is not reputable (happened with robotic vacuums). But by default, no humans will view it.

A human house cleaner by definition is a real human looking at your home every time.


One human, with a single set of human eyes and a limited network of associates with few immediate criminals looking to take advantage (although, yes, that does happen).

Versus a small army of roomba's and equivalents mapping out floor plans and tangentially exposing human occupation times with that large data set almost certainly exposed to criminal and surveillance networks that will almost certainly use some of that choicer data to their advantage.

It's literally trade offs in both cases.


It's really surprising how many people fail to account for scale when determining the risks presented by some of this new tech.

Not to pull on the tinfoil hat, but I would assume most commercially available home cleaning robots will be covered with cameras, mics, and other sensors, and connected to their manufacturer's cloud... I don't pay for housecleaning, but I would vet humans quite differently.

I don't trust a robot with my privacy, but I know Linette isn't building a profile of my shopping habits and Wi-Fi traffic. She is also careful to not let my cats out.

It’s not really about the info but restricting access to people. Imagine they restrict access to social medial to people with different political opinions as the ruling party in the government

The whole idea is that the government gives you a cryptographic token that proves you are over 18, but that token can be used anywhere. They don't get to say what websites can look at it, because...how would they.

The concern isn't that an authoritarian government locks you out of some age-restricted sites, it's that it locks you out of them all.

Well, sure. But that doesn't answer my original question - which 3rd party provider do you trust more with your own data more than the government[which in most cases already has this data]

Data ownership is just one area of concern. Controlling our access to the internet is another.

If age verification was an open standard, we could hope for competition so that we could jump ship from a bad actor. If one blocks our access, we would have alternatives. In theory.

Not so with a centralized government-mandated service.


Who is in charge of certifying implementers? What happens when I provide an implementation and don't verify anything at all?

I'm not saying age verification is a good idea, just that a centralized government-mandated implementation is a bad way to do an already bad idea.

The government can just arrest you and lock you out of all sites. It's not like they cannot do it today.

You can disable Internet access for millions instantly. You can't arrest millions.

Again, this can be done already? Look at any authoritarian country killing internet access the moment anything happens.

This could be more targeted, like a no-fly list for the internet. Political dissidents, journalists, etc. could be effectively exiled from online activity.

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