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@xianc78 Anubis-like solutions are wasteful, burning up entire jungles, contributing to global warming :(
we need a super-efficient system like a mandatory card reader that reads a government ID, which everyone needs anyway
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In MYTHOS I have opted to expose only the underlying Allegro transforms and create ways to manage them better rather than create a proper camera system built-in like what is necessary in most 3D engines. I do not want to complicate any perspective tricks that might rely on transforms, since changes to the transform the GPU is working with are relative to the previous transform. Without some two-step BS to control the order camera transforms are applied to each entity it would quickly become a headache for a small few developers.

I just had a daydream and realized that the next step in pushing digital ID is to use them as an alternative to captchas.

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⚡💬 THROWBACK - Discord will require MANDATORY Face ID biometric scanning and ID verification for ALL USERS starting next month.

It’s time to return to the beginning. To a better time when chat apps were just chat apps.

It’s time to return to IRC. https://blossom.primal.net/0062cdc3932911d55eececf91f635b5d0b598d24f1971b32e11365d49203d82f.jpg
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@LukeAlmighty If I were raising kids right now, they would all be using computers with custom, locked-down Linux distros and a whitelist of approved sites, but I will never support the government deciding what is and isn't acceptable for my kids.

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Should social media be illegal for people under the age of 15?

@beardalaxy @sendpaws I didn't even know that Discord had porn on it. I assumed that most people use imageboards and boorus for that purpose.

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EFF is against age verification mandates, including Discord's new policy requiring face scans or IDs for full access to the platform. Here are some things to consider if you're planning to continue using Discord next month. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-y

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Our functional programming course only just this semester switched from Prolog and Gödel to Rust

Added a pause state as well. This is the first time I'm using an object-oriented state machine instead of a switch statement. Something that has been long overdue.

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@ooignignoktoo @anemone @coolboymew Just use a mixture of baking soda and powdered sugar. If you mix them together, ants can't distinguish between the two. The powder sugar acts as bait, while the baking soda kills them by reacting to their stomach acid and causing their abdomens to explode.

Just remember it has to be powdered sugar.

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If you want people to stop hating you, telling them to stop hating you while you keep doing the same thing over and over again is definitely going to work.

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Ever since the Epstein files have been released, I've seen everyone on the political compass claiming that there ideology has been "vindicated", which means to me that they are once again cherrypicking information that fits their beliefs.

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