You can’t pull one over on these kids. They have tons of free time and none of the responsibility of adulthood, they’re gonna bypass whatever the fuck you put in front of them.
I was that kid that refused to be constrained and I’m so fucking proud of this generation for carrying on the legacy.
My kid last year in 5th grade (or maybe even the year before?) and his classmates figured out they could use shared Google Docs on their school accounts to have chats with each other, during school. The parent side of me rolled my eyes but the 80s kid in me was legitimately proud. Did I narc on them? Hell no.
The one hilarious thing is that all sorts of new social issues arise with this kind of workaround. Document names get changed, someone deletes something that someone else thinks is important, etc., and they have to work it out. So it’s a learning experience, for sure!
Arguing about Google Docs will prepare them for the corporate world
WHY CANT WE JUST USE A WIKI???!211!
Sorry, I just had a flashback to my previous job where we used google docs.
+1 just for using "narc". Which by the way, reminds me every time, of the arcade game of the same name. Loved that game. 🚀
we did this in the late 2000s when schools banned chat programs. Just working in Google docs teach.
That's just a digital/modern form of passing notes in class lol good on them!
The only thing that taught me more about computers than trying to get porn is trying to pirate software.
And thus begins the three-legged race between imaged-based age verification and kids. (Prediction: the kids will win, but it will take the other side a looooong time to admit it.)
The winners will be the middle men selling fixes for the fixes.
The companies get to fulfill their legal obligation, and the kids who can figure it out unlock the reward of an uncensored community. No one’s IDs are compromised in the process.
Win / win?
Stupid people will still be either censored or get their info leaked, and we have to live in a society with them.
Think about the poor politicians /s
Lmao I didn't had "bypassing corpo surveillance with a vtuber software" on my 2026 bingo
Did these people forget Vtubers exist? Using a camera/Vr goggles to map one face to another? It's just going to need a phone app, a good 3d model and shader generator, and a big screen and you can be whoever you want.
Even faster if they use AI filters.
how about just NOT using discord?
Have they learned nothing since people used screenshots of death stranding the first this technology was used on a major platform?
If it works with such basic 3d models then what is stopping people from using an ai generated or stolen picture?
Kinda makes me think the goal is not to keep kids safe, its to avoid accountability when kids end up not being safe.
It was not screenshots. The entire point of the Death Stranding thing was that you had a live camera feed of a face that passes the "liveliness" checks that prevent you from using static pictures.
Oh that detail is a TIL
I saw someone painted their thumb with basic facial lineament and they move their thumb when the prompt asks for it. It guesses that as 13-15 years old, even though the paint has a beard. lol
Cool that it is possible but I rather ditch Discord when this is forced upon me.
FOSS
Pick the best replacement option and run with it.
You gotta sell your friends and/or fam on it, though
Someone had made a bypass hack that didn't even need 3D anything, only generated metadata, but the ID vendor has patched it: https://age-verifier.kibty.town/
Alright. But how do we stop the AI spyware from constantly monitoring our activity?
Might not be an issue for me since I'm using the flatpak of Vesktop, but getting all my none-technical friends to move away from Discord will be pain.
The…sims? We are fighting this rot with the sims basically?
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