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- on Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification | European Citizens' Initiative in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
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on Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification | European Citizens' Initiative in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
I’ll start off by saying I’m not super familiar with the EU proposal for digital IDs (other than looking at a few articles here and there), but
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I’m not in the EU. The EU proposal is tied specifically to the EU. And without documents that establish physical presence in the EU it makes it hard to interact with EU services. A cert with an email doesn’t have this problem.
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There are more problematic cases than “non-EU citizen outside of the EU want to access EU services”. There are always edge cases where there’s a piece of document that establishes the person is legally allowed to be here but is glossed over as an “ID”. Usually, you can present these in person and a human would be able to check it. It’s much harder to convince an automated machine to do so, especially when it isn’t in a drop down list. Which means no digital ID for this person (since the system can’t verify). This is not hypothetical. I have actually encountered this myself outside of the EU. Impossible to submit rental applications, trade-ins at Best buy, rent cloud servers, etc. A verification system backed by multiple non-government entities can alleviate this by 1) only verifying age and 2) verifying age through different methods, sometimes even through human vetting.
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Data protection is governed by policy in the EU proposal. Policy can change. It’s a lot harder when something is technically impossible by design. A cert with only an email cannot produce a name in it, even if storage was implemented incorrectly.
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My understanding is that while the digital id wallet is supposed to be open source, currently it depends on Google attestation framework and can’t even work on GraphineOS. You don’t run into this problem with a file.
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on Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification | European Citizens' Initiative in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Honestly I think what is needed here is something similar to TLS: build a chain of trust with multiple “authorities” that can validate your age.
Then we can potentially have open identity issuers that validate age, minimum/no logging, ram servers, periodic power cycles, and independent audits. Assign the cert to an email address or something. Only include age >16/18/21 and a expiry date.
There would be a problem with tracking accounts across services, but if the cert name is only tied to an email, it wouldn’t offer any more tracking info than the email used tied to your online accounts.
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on Happy Manjaro Certificate expiration day! To all who celebrate! in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
This came up last time the cert expired iirc.
Tl;dr one of the founders is holding up the infra not allowing any change. According to someone who worked on Manjaro, it was trivially easy to get this fixed, but that single person simply wouldn’t approve it. Last I checked they sent the founder an ultimatum: either hand over the project or see the staff walk. I suppose the staff walked.
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on Happy Manjaro Certificate expiration day! To all who celebrate! in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Doesn’t happen with Antergos either.
I mean, I’ve gotten a NXDomain error ever since they shut down, but at least it’s not a certificate expiry!
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on GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
It’s not a “game”, it’s a “product”.
And they will do the same when food and water becomes a “product” too.
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on Delta Will Use AI To Cut Costs And Set A Different Ticket Price For Every Passenger—CEO Says Profits Could Rise 50% in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Tangentially related: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEUHLm27FMM
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on Best Buy 'repairs' customer's gaming laptop by simply removing half the RAM— claims unit in question only accepts 32 GB of RAM despite listing a 64GB configuration in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Play minimum wage games, win minimum wage prizes.
If you want people who can actually fix things, why not either 1) pay a higher wage to attract talent or 2) pay a high wage so people can spend time to improve their skills?
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on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Quake isn’t as good as Unreal? Blasphemy!
Kid me had a lot of fun in those games.
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on A solar powered website that goes offline when there's no power in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
At one point in time, I was obsessed with getting a Thinkpad to the lowest power consumption possible.
I think I managed to drop it down to ~3w, with the screen and radio fully disabled.
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on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
Sadly my problems are with buggy applications, and hdr (more of a monitor issue than plasma itself). I’m hoping these get patched as more people yell at bad wayland support and poorly implemented hdr.
Somehow, under GNOME things “just work”. Or at least it doesn’t take down the entire session.
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on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
Well who needs systrays anyways? While we’re at it, let’s remove theming support too! Surely nobody would miss that feature?
I really miss KDE. Sadly my experience with new major versions (5, 6) tends to be that plasma is unstable for daily use for at least a year or two. I’ll be back once things settle down a bit.
Response to 1: funny thing is that one of the ID verification issues I specifically had is with Hetzner. They need to do a ID verification, recognizes my address is from Country A outside of the EU, so it goes through a Country A specific verification. Then rejects my ID because it’s a rare form of ID in Country A. I also have an ID for Country B but they won’t recognize it with a Country A address.
Response to 2: I’m specifically referring to people residing in the EU for this one. People in the EU that “slip through the gaps” since their ID is somewhat uncommon, thus getting locked out of digital services since they can’t validate and obtain a digital ID easily.
Response to 3: the counterpoint here is network transport protocols, such as TCP and UDP. At this point, it is no longer possible to build new protocols or modify these protocols because of how entrenched the infrastructure hacks surrounding these protocols are, such that no new protocol header would be possible to get through the Internet without it being dropped by middleboxes. I’m suggesting utilizing this technical moat as a feature here: have a simple proposal spread so wide that it becomes almost impossible or economically unfeasible to switch to something invasive.
My issue with 4 is more about current implementation rather than the proposal. So far, the main (or only functional implementation, I’m not sure) is the one that depends on Google attestation. While this could change, I’m not the biggest fan of trusting something to “policy/proposals”. X509 is robust, has key management sorted out, and doesn’t have this specific issue. While anyone can create a cert, that doesn’t mean the cert is useful if it’s not signed by an approved CA.