Did you definitely take your meds this morning?

Work often issues work phones. They’re likely to be quite swayed by something focused on communication.

Darwin I hope Canva keeps it clean.

And I speak as someone that did just start subscribing to Canva AI from inside Affinity this month.

100% DaVinci Resolve. It’s a full-bleed, professional solution on top of a large hardware ecosystem.

I hope this forces an Affinity build for Linux.

The tanks are rumbling nicely this morning.

As someone with a 20 year old Reddit account, I have to say I agree. The character of Reddit did change noticeably when digg users came over. And that’s fine. But it definitely happened.

Set up your own emergency grid. I’ve got a couple solar powered nodes around so I can contact my wife even from the villages that aren’t in mobile coverage.

You’d be surprised.

It may theoretically be a false assumption but in practice it’s really not. The MitID identification and signing framework of Denmark, and many other similar systems across the EU, is based entirely on “the device is personal, access to it is limited and the secure enclaves within them are trustworthy”.

You are correct that this framework is not designed for anyone who wishes to root their device or install a custom OS. In other words, it cuts out 0.00000000001% of the population. The colour of the app has a bigger impact than “oh no! We can’t support rooted devices”.

The article is talking about banning social media under a particular age. This is enabled by the new Digital Service Act, and specifically the Age Verification Blueprint within the European Digital Identity Wallet. The same discussion is happening all across the EU exactly because the EU now has shared standards defined for how age verification will work online.

So while it’s true that counties can enact their own laws, like a US state can, they do so within a framework of European supranational regulation and they definitely cannot (easily) make national laws that circumvent EU directives. Well, they can, but the punishments and the hassle is severe.

But very specifically these discussions are popping up all over the EU because suddenly the EU is actually putting in place the machinery that allows it to happen. So yes, it’s a French discussion, but one borne of and fed by the European-wide framework discussion.

There’s nothing in the EU age verification structure that requires you to hand more information to the places where you need to verify your age. In fact the system expressly prevents it. Similarly in the ZKP architecture, it it not legal, nor possible, for the age verification service to know where you log in.

Maybe I’ve misunderstood your comment and so I say this in great respect; but if you don’t understand the technical details about the system the EU has defined, you may be basing your resistance on wrong assumptions.

Ah I see what you mean.

I suspect the EU will regulate in the same way it’s done other enforcement; if you are above a certain size, different requirements apply to you.

Defining what is and what isn’t something is exactly what law has to do every single time it gets defined. I’m sure we can work this one out too.

The size of the tech giants cannot be the reason to not attempt regulation. If anything, it’s exactly the reason to regulate.

Our democracy regulates a lot of things that it (we) believe to be harmful to children: Cigarettes, gambling (also online), pornography, violence in media, alcohol etc etc.

Why is social media any different?

I agree that for the system to be anonymous the state has to live up to its commitment to anonymity. Have you read the EU’s regulation about this? In there is exactly a commitment that age verification has to be anonymous.

But, let’s take a reality check here:

• For the vast majority of the population, their ISP already collects every single website they visit.
• if the state wants to know what you’ve searched for and where you’ve been online, they already have that data stored. They can only access it legally with a court order.

Yes you can circumvent this logging (to some extent) through VPN - just like you can circumvent the requirement to verify your age with a VPN. But the vast majority don’t.

My intent isn’t bad. I want kids to grow up without the harms of social media, just like I want them to grow up without the harms of gambling, tobacco etc. I wouldn’t expect children to be let in to see an 18-rated film? Why is social media any different? If we define it causes harm, which it definitely does, then why can’t we attempt to minimize harm through regulation?

What are YOU talking about?

I’m talking about French age verification, which is a national example of the EU’s ZKP age verification system, and which the article is about.

To the instance that issues the ZKP tokens you of course have to prove who you are. Once you have the ZKP age verification tokens and actually use them to prove your age, those tokens are negotiated solely between your device and the asking entity.

Have you actually read the EU’s required structure for this?

Only the entity that owns the private key can generate signed tokens. You can read about the Danish solution, which is the first and most developed implementation of the EU’s requirements for anonymity: https://digst.dk/media/5gybwsaq/implementing-age-verification-with-danish-digital-identity-wallet-dktb-09.pdf

You don’t own the signing private key so you can’t - mathematically can’t, not opinion can’t