They will try again
Readit NewsCanada commented on UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption theverge.com/news/761240/... · Posted by u/iamdamian
Canada commented on SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts" marnetto.net/2025/02/20/b... · Posted by u/alberto-m
I loved this game so much
Government asks the people to delete old photos and email to free up resources, as the government itself ramps up it's data retention requirements to conduct mass surveillance of the people.
Canada commented on Australia Wants to See Your Papers Before You Press Play reclaimthenet.org/austral... · Posted by u/like_any_other
We need to simply take away children's access to the unfiltered internet, and we need this to be done by local device parental controls - children get iPhones that allow only a whitelisted part of the internet. We adults need to enforce it and make it a social norm, like you don't buy cigarettes for kids. Then this mass surveillance "for the children" concept can go away, and also the children really shouldn't be exposed to certain information, which we all know it when we see it, until they are old enough.
Canada commented on Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users torrentfreak.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
Why don't users just share passwords? Assuming no credit cards attached to the account, serms no reason not to.
Have you tried that with Google accounts now? They'll logout all your sessions and force extra authentication to get back in.
There will always be something you could maybe do as a workaround, but they are going to make it extremely hard.
Canada commented on Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users torrentfreak.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
It is trivial to create a digital picture of a false ID.
Which is why you will need to provide a cryptographically secure identity credential issued by the government, and you will need to re-verify at regular intervals, not just upload a JPEG.
Make no mistake, the plan is to require 'KYC' for Google, reddit, Facebook, X soon and all that and then later require it for all web sites, even this one.
Australia recently passed a law requiring Google to KYC Australian account holders to check ages to decide if the user will be allowed to control the "safe search" setting.
Canada commented on OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D kbkg.com/feature/house-pa... · Posted by u/tareqak
So it means that indirectly, developers' salaries are not a taxable income in Canada if they are working on R&D? Meaning, they do pay taxes on their income, but their employer gets those taxes back, so if tax is 60%, the employer could pay 250% of what they'd pay otherwise, get 150% back, then the developer pays 150% of taxes, and gets 100%, so in effect the salary is tax-free. Is that what you meant to say?
If so, it sounds almost too good to be true. Why aren't all startups in Canada?
Yeah, I never thought of it that way. Your plan sounds great, but, in practice how it works is you get paid about half of what you would get in the US. Currently less than half due to the unusual currency exchange rates.
Canada commented on Not being federated and E2E as an advantage blog.koehntopp.info/2025/... · Posted by u/asimops
Might as well just keep using Discord then, and not bother considering this new alternative. Doing encryption or federation is difficult, author is totally right about that.
Canada commented on US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law wired.com/story/us-suprem... · Posted by u/mikece
Its bullshit a kid can buy a vpn without an ID for 3$ and skip any restriction, and even without that 90% of international porn sites, so the law fixes nothing but opens a slippery slope, whats next a law saying US needs a "Great Firewall" to protect the children from international deviancy.
And it also just opens the possibility for centralized ID verification services being breached and tieing identities to their more personal vices, its only a matter of time till a ID services gets exploited and a bunch of peoples identities and the sites they use are exploited.
We need to put these restrictions on device, and hard socially punish anyone who breaks the pact. Like, our kids get phones with parental control, they get the whitelisted approved stuff only on those.
If I give my kid a general purpose computer with unsupervised access, I better be on top of that, especially if your kid is over. It's dangerous.
We are the adults here, we have to control the children for their own good, and frankly for our own good too whether said children belong to us or not. And we sure can, and we have always done so without eliminating vice, we just agree to exclude the children and punish any adult who breaks this pact. If we can't even control the children, we must be the most incapable idiot generations of all human history.
We do not need to give children access to the internet. There will be nothing of value to children published that can't be whitelisted inside of a week, and the delay of a week won't matter.
Conversely, we cannot afford to allow a comprehensive internet censorship regime for the adult public. It's too important for civil society to survive that every adult have unrestricted read and publish rights with every other adult. Therefore, the only reasonable move is to kick the children off of it.
Canada commented on US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law wired.com/story/us-suprem... · Posted by u/mikece
I have kids and try very hard to keep them from inappropriate material online.
The real dangers aren’t dedicated porn sites, but poorly managed social media sites. You can’t just block the domain.
In many cases, the bad material comes from peers. Kids have always talked about “bad” things, but the internet super charges it.
I generally support these efforts, but I’m also very cynical they help.
Politicians focus on the problems they control, like rules for sites that rigorously follow the laws and fit in a clear category. They care far less about the grey areas where the most harm is often done.
I think this is a good thing. I’d feel a lot better if these efforts were combined with rigorous privacy protections.
For example, third party identity verification services should be civilly liable for privacy breeches, and required to carry insurance to meet the obligations.
You pretty much have to whitelist. I think we're heading towards a future where we give kids only devices that restrict internet access to known good content. There's more than enough known good content out there already to keep kids occupied until they come of age.
There will be managed whitelists that your kids can access, which sites must apply for and demonstrate compliance with the policy of, and you will be able to trust, so that you or other guardians in your family don't have to manage the minutia, which is effectively impossible for you to handle.
And your children will be able to access only these, and any other exception that you personally whitelist them to have.
And we other adults won't let kids, yours or anyone else's, have open access through us as proxies, just as we won't buy them cigarettes or alcohol if they asked us, because we all agree doing so is wrong. And we will have punishments for those who break this rule, just like we have had for generations for pre-internet vices.
We won't need to bother trying to censor the whole internet anymore. We'll just take away children's unlimited unsupervised access to it, just as we have come to a social and legal consensus to exclude them from other parts of the physical world we all agree they are not ready to handle.
I predict this will happen, major device makers like Apple will lead it, and everyone will eventually agree it is appropriate and in best interests of everyone.