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yladiz commented on Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers reclaimthenet.org/berlin-... · Posted by u/robtherobber

tick_tock_tick · 2 days ago

The sky is falling for a lot of the EU/Europe. They have massive social programs they can't afford and economies that aren't growing anymore. There is another Eurozone crisis approaching and there doesn't seem to be the political will or the acceptance by the people on what needs to happen to stop it.

Even small steps to delay it like in France lead to near open revolt.

yladiz · 2 days ago

Two points:

1. Growth is not a must have for an economy, as long as it is sustainable, so even if it is a problem, which is highly arguable, it’s not really a problem like you’re positing.

2. Can you be more specific about what the next Eurozone crisis will be? It’s not useful to be vague and to scaremonger.

yladiz commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau

drnick1 · 4 days ago

> In the EU you don’t need to upload your ID anywhere, the service can use the government’s portal for ID verification. In the case of age verification they can get a yes/no response

The issue is that now the government knows what you are doing online, and that should never be allowed to happen.

I grew up when the Internet was truly free, before Facebook even existed. People shared source code, videos, MP3s, games, regardless of "copyright" or "intellectual property." To some extent, it is still possible to do all of this, but these freedoms are being eroded every day by making the Internet less anonymous. The endgame is obviously to force people to pay for things whose "marginal cost" is zero in the language of economists. "Protecting the children" is just a convenient excuse.

yladiz · 4 days ago

I don’t really get your point. Your government is generally able to compel your ISP to give them logs of all of your traffic, if they don’t already vacuum it up, so it’s honestly a bit naive to think it shouldn’t be allowed to happen, because in practice it absolutely can.

There is a distinction between getting data from an ISP and getting it via your use of their portal, but I’d argue it’s without much of a difference in reality.

yladiz commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau

zmmmmm · 4 days ago

A lot of the criticism is based on the concept that it won't be technically watertight. But the key is that it doesn't have to be watertight to work. Social media is all about network effects. Once most kids are on there, everyone has to be on there. If you knock the percentage down far enough, you break the network effect to the point where those who don't want to don't feel pressured to. If that is all it does, it's a benefit.

My concerns about this are that it will lead to

(a) normalising people uploading identification documents and hence lead to people becoming victims of scams. This won't be just kids - scammers will be challenging all kinds of people including vulnerable elderly people saying "this is why we need your id". People are going to lose their entire life savings because of this law.

(b) a small fraction of kids branching off into fringe networks that are off the radar and will take them to very dark places very quickly.

Because it's politically unattractive, I don't think enough attention has been given to the harms that will flow from these laws.

yladiz · 4 days ago

In the EU you don’t need to upload your ID anywhere, the service can use the government’s portal for ID verification. In the case of age verification they can get a yes/no response if the age is above some threshold. This is opaque to the service so they wouldn’t get any additional ID details.

yladiz commented on Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they have an AI hardware prototype theverge.com/news/827607/... · Posted by u/signa11

yladiz · 19 days ago

> they said they are currently prototyping the device, and when asked about a timeframe, Ive said it could arrive in “less than” two years.

I'll believe it when I see it. Making hardware is much more complex than making software, and 2 years is a long time given the iffy market circumstances right now, so let's see if it's materializes, and if it does...

> but it’s rumored to be screen-free and “roughly the size of a smartphone.”

Let's see if it turns out to be another Humane situation.

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yladiz · a month ago

https://archive.is/GUyxL

yladiz commented on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown theguardian.com/money/202... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

_dain_ · a month ago

>Charge back and hope you get the money back?

yes, that's what Section 75 protection is for

yladiz · a month ago

What if your ticket is like 70£?

yladiz commented on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown theguardian.com/money/202... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

_dain_ · a month ago

idiotic populist move. resellers exist because the listed price is much lower than the price people are willing to pay. banning them doesn't make the demand go away. this will just create a black market in resold tickets, with no legal recourse against fraud etc.

yookay government's crusade to outlaw all useful economic activity continues apace. you can't legislate away scarcity.

EDIT:

>How is scalping a useful economic activity? What new value is created by for example buying up loads of Taylor Swift concert tickets and selling them at a marked up price?

if I don't want to wait in a queue or spam F5 on a website at 4 in the morning so I can be one of the first, I can instead pay somebody to do all that tedious work for me, and they can profit from it. this is a valuable service that I'm willing to pay for, and have in fact paid for with no regrets whatsoever.

SCARCITY IS A FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMIC FACT. more people want to attend a concert than there are seats available. this scarcity must be rationed in some way. there are many ways: queues, lotteries, clientelism, theft. prices are one of the more efficient mechanisms, because unlike the others, money can be directly traded, stored, accounted for, and is a means by which the value of other goods and services can be compared.

if I wait in a queue, that is a cost I have to pay, but it is simply lost. it goes nowhere. but if I pay someone else to sit in the queue for me, I can do something else useful with the time I would have spent in the queue, and that other person can then use the money to buy something else in the future. that is the value of scalping! moreover, that one other person can sit in the queue on behalf of N other people; we all benefit from this economic specialisation and reduction of redundancy.

scalpers are the unjustly persecuted heroes of our economy. they are apostates from Queueing, our national religion.

yladiz · a month ago

It’s not like you really had much recourse before anyway, if someone sold you a fake ticket or one that’s already been used, are you really going to sue them or the platform? Charge back and hope you get the money back?

yladiz commented on WebTransport is almost here to allow UDP-like exchange in the browser developer.mozilla.org/en-... · Posted by u/BinaryIgor

mort96 · a month ago

I think WebTransport is cool.

What worries me is that some people involved in standardisation seem to be of the opinion that WebTransport supersedes WebSocket. WS has become my go-to transport when I just need to be able to reliably send messages back and forth, whether or not the web is involved at all, and I don't see WebTransport as a replacement for that use case. I hope WS sticks around forever.

Also, it's messed up that WT is only available in HTTPS. There are so many cool use cases for web technologies in local contexts where HTTPS is not a practical option, it's a shame most new technologies are arbitrarily banned from those use cases.

yladiz · a month ago

You should be able to use things like WebTransport locally, localhost is considered a secure context.

yladiz commented on ICE plans cash rewards for private bounty hunters to locate and track immigrants theintercept.com/2025/10/... · Posted by u/clanky

JumpCrisscross · a month ago

Why is this unacceptable for immigration enforcement but acceptable for even petty criminals?

yladiz · a month ago

Define acceptable.