Automation, I like it! /s
biggerbogboy
joined 2 years ago
Australian government prepares social media ban amid opposition to privacy and free speech violation
Ironically, if age estimation was done via usage history algorithms, it'd be a much more privacy preserving technique than literally scanning your face or ID into a website that then hands it off to a barely known biometrics company so you can keep using your account...
It's so strange how this legislation apparently is supposed to safeguard the safety of kids on the internet, but hands tremendous risk to adults who verify, or parents who's kids sneakily took their ID to verify their accounts, since it seems that we may be the cyberattack victim capital of the world; see Qantas, Lattitude Financial, Optus, Medibank, and so on until the end of time.
I've actually begun DIYing a syncthing based mesh of my devices plus a NAS I'll make from an old ThinkPad because honestly, fuck those cloud services.
I used to love the cloud, I saw it as really convenient, but now I just see it as a pretty ok way to back up all my old school work, plus OneDrive screaming at me to sign in, then automatically signing me in without asking...
Sure the DIY NAS I'm making is just an old ThinkPad 11e school laptop's board and battery, and some USB to m.2 dongles, but it'll be pretty damn good for a net cost of probably 100 bucks total
typa shit I'd be bringing home from the primary school playground when I was younger
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