maybe the goal is instead to try to get ahead of regulation by implementing a system that is easily bypassed by most kids (like these video based age estimations). Then they can show this to the regulator and be like: “look were already doing everything we can, no need to actually put the regulation in place”.

I mean it’s just a cheap PR ploy anyway. Companies are not your friends. They are just as much dependent on payment processors like Mastercard as Steam and Itch. They probably just don’t matter enough to get notice.

You can disable showing adult games from the store in the store preferences.

https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences

This setting is apparently disabled by default, so at some point you enabled it.

Valve locks game libraries?

OP is. This is just a remix of a popular meme.

I’ve head in some small shops you can still get sim cards without id (“oh I forgot it at home” …)

I found this: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/11/grok-musk/

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Passkeys are be migratable, but it’s up to the vendor to implement it. Unfortunately, as far as I’m aware, vendors haven’t agreed on a single way that this migration process should work.

Some passkey providers support exporting them (e.g. Bitwarden). Many don’t (e.g. Windows Hello).

My advice would be to only use Passkeys with a provider that allows you to migrate them to another.

soon ™

US media is often terribly mastered like this

https://archive.is/W3bV2

I agree with the first part, but I think the second part is unsubstantiated.

See my first sentence.

To maintain the anonymity goal you still want to obtain Talers in advance (otherwise you’d open yourself up to timing correlation) - so they will have to be in the wallet for some non-negligible duration.

Regardless of expiration that also means the device holding the secrets to use the Talers can be lost in that time, so you need some e.g. encrypted cloud backup to restore from. Since people are terrible at printing out recovery codes, you can either have key escrow (leading to a compromise of the anonymity properties), or you accept that some people will lose their money for reasons they will not understand.

Regardless, I would much prefer Taler as a CBDC to whatever permissioned Blockchain garbage the Big4 consulting companies will come up with.

Your purchase includes a 12-month Sailfish OS full license subscription

Didn’t expect a Linux phone to be the first subscription based OS. Makes for a total cost of ownership of ~600€ if you keep the device for 5 years. (299+4.99×12×5)

vibe-syscalls

Didn’t they release falsified sales numbers previously?

This is called plausibly deniable encryption, though you cannot hide the presence of the system itself.

GrapheneOS has a Duress PIN feature, which wipes your phone if entered.

How did he fuck up his liver? Do you mean that he was doing something that caused him to develop that tumor?