Apple is believed to be adding multispectral imaging to future generations of the iPhone. This and 3d mapping are more than enough to defeat the "point the camera at a high res screen" trick.

The issue is that age verifiers (like Discord) are not really trying.

This makes sense. I already use Grokipedia maybe 50% of the time. If you really dig into things, it is - incredibly - more accurate. I often find glaring errors or biases in Wikipedia, especially over the last 5 years.

are you sure that what you count as bias is actually just reality but you consider it bias.

And what's actually biased (see SilverElfin's comment) you consider fair

What is this psychology phenomenon called?

Can you give an example?

Every time I've logged into Bitchat, nobody appears to be online - across the entire United States.

Same in Iceland, but even when traveling across the world, I never see anyone when trying it.

Is the software better, though?

Better can be argued. More performant though? Yes, massively so.

Turns out spending some time understanding what your CPU and GPU are actually doing when running your app, and how to make them do less work, leads to pretty speedy software.

Then it also turns out that this does not seem to impede most of the features of the software it is competing with, meaning that software is by definition wasteful.

It can't even be argued that the other software made better use of human resources since it's a large team vs one guy who is often not even getting paid, and the guy is the one with the fast software.

On a tangent, still waiting for File Pilot to have even the bare minimum of CJK support... I do like that the software is fast, but without support for other languages than English it's useless to most of the people in the world.

Wow, no Unicode support is a pretty glaring flaw for a paid solution being sold as the superior alternative to Explorer.

I don't see why you'd ever want to use File Pilot over Directory Opus on Windows.

I'd like something better than Dolphin for Linux though, because Dolphin is absolute garbage. I'm going to have to write my own there.

Right. A lot of people when they say "minimal" mean "simple looking at first glance", and it rarely is.

The tax savings (let alone cost of living savings) of avoiding California for most readers of this comment would pay for a professional data removal service 100x.

I’d rather it be government enforced/my right and not a privilege I have to pay out the ass for, personally.

Nostr doesn't even have the decoupling afforded by what we typically think of when we think of federated networks (email, activitypub, matrix). If you and another party aren't using the same relay, there is 0 way for you to interact. It assumes either you pre-agree on a relay (sticky defaults encouraging centralization) or shotgun messages to many relays (economies of scale encourgaing centralization). The protocol explicitly forbids relays from forwarding to each other.

Nostr is a very simple protocol that could have been invented in essence in 1995. There's a reason it wasn't invented until recently, because it's difficult to build robust protocols with good guarantees about discoverability and reliability with a foundation that is as limited as it is.

This is not true. Read up on the outbox model. I have linked it elsewhere in replies in this thread.

You post to your own preferred relays, as well as to the preferred relays of others who are involved in the conversation, as well as to a couple of global relays for easy discoverability.

These global relays are useful, but are interchangeable and totally replaceable. As soon as you've connected with someone you can retrieve their updates, because you know their preferred relays, and can query them directly.

That's exactly what I'm talking about with having pre-agreed relays. Those relays become preferred as a sticky default, especially with low-sophistication users that don't have organic onboarding paths away from the sticky defaults.

Incorrect.

Everyone can announce to the network where they read/write from. Clients can figure out (based on the people you follow) from which relays to get the content.

I've been using it like this for nearly a year. It works

It's a little different to federated networks like GNU Social/Mastadon since the data and the relay are separate. You can post the same data to multiple relays and read from many relays simultaneously. Meaning you aren't tied to picking a single relay with network effects, and although a big relay going offline might cause temporary chaos, it's fairly easy for new ones to be set up and added to clients, without having to explicitly move things like accounts and so on.

The cope and envy in the comments here are among the worst I've read on Hacker News. The anti-tech hysteria has even made it here. Sad days.