Bold of you to assume that they have a lower cut off at 18

That is so odd. Can you manually reroll your home networks external IP address? Maybe reconnect your router. I dont know how they would be able to reidentify you otherwise.

Are you on a commercial VPN connection?

Hyperfocused nerdism does that to a mfer. Whatever coding aspect people are interested in, will get improved, while all the rest stays untouched.

They are worlds apart yes. Russia actually has an amazing academia network that is suffering greatly from Putins politics. Most recently seen by hundreds of academics having to stop their collaboration with CERN because of the war. Compared to NK, Russia is just a normal country with lots of IT and science nerds.

However if you look at the US and their rural MAGA population, it shows that there can just be a massive rift within the population. And thats what you have in Russia too i would assume.

Banning things doesnt stop people from doing those things. You dont stop locking your bike/car just because theft is illegal. Other countries governments could still use it, criminals could use it, your own countries agencies could use it because they might be exempt from certain laws.

Yes it should be outlawed but thqts only half the solution.

Stop giving insane people hope that they will ever be able to realize their insane ideas.

Have you tried if yt-dlp works? Cuz if that also doesnt, then maybe they actually temporarily blocked your IP?

I have never gotten this message on yt so cant test it.

Im talking about apps (optimally your main camera app too) needing to have built in biometric fuzzing. Phones (by default) just shouldnt be capable of creating pictures that can be used for biometrics. Camera apps for this already exist but nobody uses them.

Ofcourse the existing pictures are already on the internet but thats not a reason to not change course. The sooner we stop supplying them data, the worse their detection system will be.

Simply not uploading pictures of yourself at all is the best but maybe thats too hard for some people.

As much as i hate meta and the rest, this is really a personal failure. Everyone knew that this would happen and everyone kept uploading all their unsecured biometric info to the public internet. This would be feasable, no matter how cool and open social media platforms are.

Its not solveable by any other means than not publishing the data in the first place. Getting existing biometric scramblers for image and audio data into the hands of the public is the big first step that would be necessary to solve this.

They dont have brooms, they only have bulldozers. I would prefer my living room un-bulldozed.

I dont really endorse this blog, but this is an interesting post about the compounding pharmacy situation:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-compounding-loophole

It is chemically indistinguishable. This is usually not the case for imitations or knockoffs in other market sectors. So it should be highlighted to prevent a misleading narrative.

Yeah because they dont want their families to go to reeducation camps, so they stay silent.

Middle mouse clicking posts to open them in a new tab, when? Mastodon web is unusable for me until this gets implemented.

“Braun” is the color of his Nazi uniform.

These are not civilians, they are clearly armed and usually trained in combat. They are active military combatants and they should be called that. Replacing “settlers” with “militias” seems like a good start.

This is what i never understand about attempts at P2P hosting of copyright content. It only works BECAUSE its obscure and irrelevant. As soon as it gets popular, all of these people and their VPN providers would get crushed by lawsuits.

Dont get me wrong i love P2P tech, but it will never solve these issues unless the laws are fixed.

Yeah when google breaks something newpipe and its forks usually get updated within a day or two. I really gotta donate to them again.

And how does that have anything to do with the current political siuation mr troll? People declaring independence is a thing that has been happening everywhere since forever. You think the US should be taken back by the British?