Let’s hope they’ll use Gendarmerie’s almost 20 years of experience on that.

Just because they are responsible doesn’t mean the have the means to exert their responsibility. Demanding birth-date upon (local) account creation would allow them to better exert that responsiblity.

It can be done like that, but then it’d be (trivially) fake-able by anyone with root permissions on their own computer. But then, my point is that kids shouldn’t be root of their computers, so let’s just parents vouch for children’s age, and leave everything more complicated out.

From what I understood, the rules (in California?) would be : a) Every operating system provider must collect the user’s age or date of birth during the initial account setup process. b) The OS must classify the user into one of the four defined age brackets: under 13 years old, 13–15 years old, 16–17 years old, or 18 years and older. c) This information must be made available to application developers through a real-time API as soon as an application is launched or downloaded.

Unless I’ve missed something, I could definitely live with that. I haven’t seen anything more acceptable when it comes to age verification. Point a) doesn’t need to prove age or date of birth.

Now there is a small issue that came to my mind since my first post, which might be quite problematic : if ANY website is able to tell whether ANY user is a child, it’ll be as easy to keep children out of certain sites that it’ll be easy to keep adults out of others.

Imagine a bulletin board with highly disturbing/predatory content which would ONLY show to kids? Whenever mom or dad checks, website is all normal. And that would be real bad, probably worse than our current, no age verified situation.

You could still use them as small, tangible containers.

I don’t mean automatically replicate anything, that would be pointless. But I’m still a reddit user myself, and from time to time I stumble onto something interesting, and I’d like to let it live on Lemmy as well.

I don’t know how ethical it would be, and maybe it already exists, but a tool to replicate a Reddit post directly on a Lemmy instance could be useful

TL;DR it’s much more beautiful but won’t be free, as it’ll need at least to buy some upgrade even if you had the original, switch1 game.

There’s no such thing as a “dating league”. People are selective, but the nature of that selectivity depends on the individual.

Exactly this. I can’t deal with anymore “rating” of people’s attractiveness, as daily seen on Reddit and the such. Beauty, attractiveness, and overall interest a person generates is highly (if not solely) dependent on said interest’s other end.

There is something deeply flawed in trying to put people into small, numbered boxes.

This might already be the case, but the guy deserves is own character and quest in Project Tamriel and/or Tamriel Rebuilt. This is way too young an age to go.

this. that’s why a model is as good as its known margin of error and limits

and it’s important to remember models work well outside of edge cases ; in your speedometer example, if you brake on ice and your car drifts out of control, the speedometer will show no speed, when you’ll probably have one … but in most cases, it’s a good enough model

And keep in mind that cutting ALL sugar out of your diet (which, luckily enough, isn’t that easy to do) will starve your brain and make you feel increasingly stupid. It’s only after my last week-long fast that I’ve read that our brains can’t really work on glycogen (ketosis-produced “sugar”).

live a few more years

And see more of your children, maybe even your grand-children. Sounds like a fair deal to me.