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  • It was very odd at my company. We were a Google Workspace company. Gmail, Meet, Drive, etc with our own servers for messaging, gitlab and some other things.

    Sure being Google based isn’t great either, but generally people were fine with it. Then the C suite said we were moving to Microsoft. Lots and lots of complaining, asking for justification, but no reason was given (not even cost). Today people are still cursing teams 18months later. We’re not in control of our own data (things get deleted every time somebody leaves, and permissions are generally a mess).








  • I think framework are worthy of support even though the company is American.

    1. Regardless of who you buy from… Manufacture including assembly is done in east Asia. That’s where most of your money is going.
    2. Framework are not tech giants. They’re a small company battling giants.
    3. The ethos of ownership, repair and upgrade needs supporting.
    4. They’ve been following through on their promises.

    So yes, I’m not buying US goods as much as I can also. I make an exception for Framework. They’re the resistance in an occupied nation.



  • A response I gave elsewhere in this thread.

    This authority will provide you with tokens indicating you are 18+ (or whatever age verfication you may need) These tokens are stored locally, and contain no identifying information other than a simple “is this guy 18+?”

    So they’re reusable? One token can be used for multiple age checks, right?

    If not, then think about what that means.

    1. The token gets sent back to the authority for revocation.
    2. The token is authorised by the central authority as still valid.
    3. The token is uniquely identifiable
    4. The central authority knows who it issued each token for
    5. The central authority knows who has asked it the verify age.

    Sure, the company you’re purchasing from may have no new information, but the central authority now has everything it needs to know:

    • How often you buy tobacco, alcohol or medications
    • What discussion boards you are a member of
    • Have you purchased anything age restricted from any store (e.g. propane from a DIY store)



  • This authority will provide you with tokens indicating you are 18+ (or whatever age verfication you may need) These tokens are stored locally, and contain no identifying information other than a simple “is this guy 18+?”

    So they’re reusable? One token can be used for multiple age checks, right?

    If not, then think about what that means.

    1. The token gets sent back to the authority for revocation.
    2. The token is authorised by the central authority as still valid.
    3. The token is uniquely identifiable
    4. The central authority knows who it issued each token for
    5. The central authority knows who has asked it the verify age.

    Sure, the company you’re purchasing from may have no new information, but the central authority now has everything it needs to know:

    • How often you buy tobacco, alcohol or medications
    • What discussion boards you are a member of
    • Have you purchased anything age restricted from any store (e.g. propane from a DIY store)





  • The fallback argument for the social media ban is that it’s better than nothing. But with results like these, it may be worse than nothing, given it potentially creates new problems. Children will remain online with arguably less supervision and support, new privacy and digital security vulnerabilities seem to have appeared and the worst aspects of social media lay largely unaddressed.

    I wish more people understood this. Changing something can mean you’ve caused harm unintentionally, even if you haven’t identified it yet. Too many people seem to have the thought process “We have to do something! This is something. Let’s do this.” without ever considering the harm they might do.