My guess is they own accounts which show the ads, so they get paid for showing ads. This is similar how those "get free money" apps work, they own Ad account and get paid when you view/click that ad. Another theory is…
Its resource allocation problem, same happened with .com bubble, lots investors put tons of money into dark fibers. Were they useless? No its very useful. If you want check a example company from the .com days check…
Your argument about reddit doesn't really hold up, they can post data embedded into images or illegal materials in photos or videos. Malware can extract data from embedded metadata from media, there's even video by benn…
Governments aren't clearly willing to regulate the companies. They just let them do whatever they want once they're too big to regulate. Internet Companies has 20 years of history of datamining for sake advertising.…
The characters on those video resemble alot certain mainstream works, isn't this very problematic?
Damn, I didn't even considered this angle. Lot's 18+ items dont actually require age verification online. Yet porn/socials are being subjected to it. Just shows what priorities are.
I think he means since IANA/ICANN assings country LTD, so technically it's also under USA jurisdiction. Waiting for the day when texas court demands deleting .ee LTD (since estonia is currently only country which has…
I wonder why they're spreading this message. EU just went after Meta and Tiktok for the addictive design. Why not wait the results of this? They allowed children get brainfucked for 9+ years. Whats one or two more…
The author seems forget that AI crawlers use millions residental proxies, so simply having proof of work indeed blocks them. If they reused proof of work with different IP, they'd be detected very quickly. Or the proof…
I think the blog author is misinformed about the session id? If you use that for marketing purposes, you need cookie prompt. The GDRP says only necassary cookies, if you also reuse the login cookies for purposes. It's…
Running Local LLM isn't really a lot effort anymore, since its one command away to get the familar interface of chat AI. This setup requires 24GB ish VRAM and 32GB ram, so if you have capable gaming PC which can do AAA…
UK already technically banned encryption, causing Apple to remove the encrypted cloud service for UK customers. Check UK's "Investigatory Powers Act (IPA)"
Personally i only purchase DRM free games, but it doesn't still change that fact that major digital storefronts use misleading terms. Maybe physical disks would maintain popularity if customers knew they'd be renting…
Everytime EUID mentioned, people forget that EUID is not anonymous! EUID has "provider/verifier" endpoint which communicates with your website to inform you are indeed 18+ age. Link:…
If you are referring to EUID (not fully sure as you said EU eID, i dont know if you are referring the estonia of eID like system) I have to mention that EUID is not private, since there's "provider" element which…
Games are already part of this if game contains game chats. You will need do ID check. https://www.thegamer.com/online-games-chat-ban-for-children-... I think we've also seen this in action with playstation, i remember…
I still think we're solving social media from wrong angle. We should fix the addiction nature, so we can still use social media for informative purposes. (like hobby forums) Before the big platforms took over, there was…
As finn. I can verify scam calls are non-existent lately few do occasinally popup, but its like 2000 times better than before. When i learned about this originally, i was shocked like how this is not default?
This is correct attitude, for example some people actually got arresred for supporting ukraine efforts on war. I disagree that all my assets must be seized because i donated few bucks for sake protecting invaded…
As game dev, i never understood why floats are used to present colors? Isn't integers better? The issues which this article mentioned wouldn't exist. I can only think its due integers having undefined behavior what…
Dont forget what kicked this age verification in first place. Initially they wanted do age verification for porn, and only year later they moved into social media seeing there's wasn't huge pushback. So even if this…
Same, for same reason i refuse pay for services, in past paying for service would mean they wouldn't track you and sell your data, but thats not longer the case. Since that's additional profits for companies. Luckily…
Quite huge leap from predicting next tokens, this feels they're trying saying most crazy things for attention to remind they're AI and still a thing.
I think he means browser permissions, for example when browsers want notify or record your mic theres a permission check something similar for webgl.
I'd simply check filling speed, even with browser's autocomplete humans are slow due needing click submit. Then when it's "processing", do them in bulk and prioritize slower users. There's huge opportunity do bot checks…
My guess is they own accounts which show the ads, so they get paid for showing ads. This is similar how those "get free money" apps work, they own Ad account and get paid when you view/click that ad. Another theory is…
Its resource allocation problem, same happened with .com bubble, lots investors put tons of money into dark fibers. Were they useless? No its very useful. If you want check a example company from the .com days check…
Your argument about reddit doesn't really hold up, they can post data embedded into images or illegal materials in photos or videos. Malware can extract data from embedded metadata from media, there's even video by benn…
Governments aren't clearly willing to regulate the companies. They just let them do whatever they want once they're too big to regulate. Internet Companies has 20 years of history of datamining for sake advertising.…
The characters on those video resemble alot certain mainstream works, isn't this very problematic?
Damn, I didn't even considered this angle. Lot's 18+ items dont actually require age verification online. Yet porn/socials are being subjected to it. Just shows what priorities are.
I think he means since IANA/ICANN assings country LTD, so technically it's also under USA jurisdiction. Waiting for the day when texas court demands deleting .ee LTD (since estonia is currently only country which has…
I wonder why they're spreading this message. EU just went after Meta and Tiktok for the addictive design. Why not wait the results of this? They allowed children get brainfucked for 9+ years. Whats one or two more…
The author seems forget that AI crawlers use millions residental proxies, so simply having proof of work indeed blocks them. If they reused proof of work with different IP, they'd be detected very quickly. Or the proof…
I think the blog author is misinformed about the session id? If you use that for marketing purposes, you need cookie prompt. The GDRP says only necassary cookies, if you also reuse the login cookies for purposes. It's…
Running Local LLM isn't really a lot effort anymore, since its one command away to get the familar interface of chat AI. This setup requires 24GB ish VRAM and 32GB ram, so if you have capable gaming PC which can do AAA…
UK already technically banned encryption, causing Apple to remove the encrypted cloud service for UK customers. Check UK's "Investigatory Powers Act (IPA)"
Personally i only purchase DRM free games, but it doesn't still change that fact that major digital storefronts use misleading terms. Maybe physical disks would maintain popularity if customers knew they'd be renting…
Everytime EUID mentioned, people forget that EUID is not anonymous! EUID has "provider/verifier" endpoint which communicates with your website to inform you are indeed 18+ age. Link:…
If you are referring to EUID (not fully sure as you said EU eID, i dont know if you are referring the estonia of eID like system) I have to mention that EUID is not private, since there's "provider" element which…
Games are already part of this if game contains game chats. You will need do ID check. https://www.thegamer.com/online-games-chat-ban-for-children-... I think we've also seen this in action with playstation, i remember…
I still think we're solving social media from wrong angle. We should fix the addiction nature, so we can still use social media for informative purposes. (like hobby forums) Before the big platforms took over, there was…
As finn. I can verify scam calls are non-existent lately few do occasinally popup, but its like 2000 times better than before. When i learned about this originally, i was shocked like how this is not default?
This is correct attitude, for example some people actually got arresred for supporting ukraine efforts on war. I disagree that all my assets must be seized because i donated few bucks for sake protecting invaded…
As game dev, i never understood why floats are used to present colors? Isn't integers better? The issues which this article mentioned wouldn't exist. I can only think its due integers having undefined behavior what…
Dont forget what kicked this age verification in first place. Initially they wanted do age verification for porn, and only year later they moved into social media seeing there's wasn't huge pushback. So even if this…
Same, for same reason i refuse pay for services, in past paying for service would mean they wouldn't track you and sell your data, but thats not longer the case. Since that's additional profits for companies. Luckily…
Quite huge leap from predicting next tokens, this feels they're trying saying most crazy things for attention to remind they're AI and still a thing.
I think he means browser permissions, for example when browsers want notify or record your mic theres a permission check something similar for webgl.
I'd simply check filling speed, even with browser's autocomplete humans are slow due needing click submit. Then when it's "processing", do them in bulk and prioritize slower users. There's huge opportunity do bot checks…