Sir. Haxalot

About to ruin your whole day

Display technology, demonstrated by cat

New cat just dropped! https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)01110-3https://www.newscientist.com/article/2589847-beautiful-new-cat-species-is-first-to-be-named-in-a-century/

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This really has nothing to do with Smart TVs in itself though.. It's just a problem if you choose to play YouTube videos on your TV, which seems like a pretty reasonable thing to want to do.

It sounds like you are assuming that the wallet needs to re-validate each session and I don’t see why this would be needed. Each user account would just need to validate their age once then the website operator could store this in their database. If you’ve validated once you can be sure the user keeps being old enough.

Is it really that different with proof of work? In the end the control is going to end up with relatively few entities that have the resources to build large scale mining farms..

I believe something like this is supposed to be a use-case of the digital EU Wallet. A website is supposed to be able to receive an attestation of a users age without nessecarily getting any other information about the person. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Digital_Identity_Wallet Apparently the relevant feature is Electronic attestations of attributes (EAAs). I’m not really familiar with how it will be implemented though and I am a bit afraid of beurocratic design is going to fuck this up.. Imo something like this would be magnitudes better than the current reliance of video identification. Not only is it much more reliable, it will also not feel nearly as invasive as having to scan your face and hope the provider doesn’t save it somewhere.