Quicky comments on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works

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[–] Quicky@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Whether or not that's the case, I think the proposed technical implementation above is a better way of enforcing the actual law than what's been applied so far.

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[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yeah I do too, but so would anyone who was seriously thinking about this in terms of keeping kids from looking at porn rather than restricting access to "adult content" (whatever that means) more broadly. Any programmer worth their salt would have immediately suggested "hey this is a bad idea we should do it this other way" when asked about the viability of the current solution and yet this was ignored.

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[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My entire experience as a software engineer for the last 15 years has been being ignored by the non-exprerts in charge. It goes like this:

MBA: I want to solve this problem using this solution

Me: that won't solve the problem well, how about-

MBA: I don't care for the laws of reality. Do it my way [or find another job]!

They say they want our expertise but really they want validation of their own terrible ideas and they think coercing experts with threats of unemployment is as valuable as actually listening to those experts.

This applies as much to the public sector and the absolute clowns we vote in to govern us as it does to the private sector where the clowns hold the purse strings. Frankly it makes me want to give up the subject I have a PhD in and grow potatoes on a remote island somewhere.

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