xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Just a heads up for any instance admins: In the wake of the announcement of the shutdown of a certain Mastodon instance full of glowposters, I think it's probably a good idea to keep registrations disabled for a while to prevent them from migrating to here an cause trouble.

@djsumdog I never heard of freshcode. Maybe it could be a viable GitHub alternative if it's not ultra-woke like SourceHut and apparently, CodeBerg.

@jeffcliff Christianity and Islam are not cults, regardless about how you feel about them. What makes a cult different from a religion (besides its size) is that cults have secretive practices while religions tend to have their practices out in the open.

@Mr_NutterButter @beardalaxy I was offered alcohol once during New Years, as a kid, but I declined.

I only ever drank alcohol once on my 21st birthday and that might be the only time.

@beardalaxy Unless you have physical access to the scanners or servers, there is no way to prove that the data is erased after verification. Of course the government could make storing that data illegal, but they could also be storing the data themselves through mandated backdoors.

>to be honest, if we're either going to go the route of sanitizing the entire internet or needing to provide ID to see stuff that isn't sanitized, i'd rather have the latter. especially if we can reverse some of the sanitization that's already happened. but yeah it would have to go through some really good encryption or just be checked and then erased.

I would also have the latter, but I don't want the Internet to be the next HAM radio where you have to jump through a bunch of state mandated hoops just to use the damn thing or at least a certain layer of it.

Honestly, the real ID thing reminds me of Ender's Game. The book was written before the Internet went public, but the book featured an Internet like network called "the nets" and unlike the Internet we have, most of it is invite-only and heavily moderated, and I remember that users would have to buy passports from the government in order to use it. However, the ironic thing is is that there is a subplot where two kids use pseudonyms to publish essays on the nets to influence people in order to set up a world government, which wouldn't happen in real-life as the government could just link the passports to the usernames and tell everyone "these are a bunch of kids, don't listen to them."

@beardalaxy It's tradition for some parents to let kids drink alcohol on New Year's Eve. I always thought it was some illegal thing, but apparently not.