kibiz0r

joined 2 years ago
[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

I never played Descent itself, but I played a shitty clone on one of those “1000 Games on 10 CD-ROMs” packs back in the day.

After learning about the source material, I always wanted to go try it but haven’t taken the time.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago

They wouldn’t see what sites you give the tokens to — unless those sites choose to phone home, for some reason.

  • You log in to the government site
  • You ask for a token to prove your age/gender/whatever
  • You copy the token
  • You go to the age/gender-restricted site
  • You provide the token
  • The restricted site asks the government site how to verify any arbitrary token (but doesn’t mention your specific token)
  • The restricted site verifies the token
[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 55 points 1 week ago (13 children)

So like, when do we get a government-run service to issue zero-knowledge proofs about us so companies have no reason to store stuff like this in the first place?

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well…

If the justice system didn’t have a systemic massive unjustified distrust of women, and it spontaneously reached the peak of equality on this specific metric, then there would probably eventually be a higher rate of false accusations.

And then we’d eventually end up with a latent mild justified skepticism of all sexes, and then we’d still end up needing objective evidence.

So it’d be kinda self-defeating, except for a handful of glory years. Now would be a fantastic time for those glory years, no doubt, but it’s not a long-term solution.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 13 points 1 week ago

Thank you for everything you do, seahorse!

I have a handful of recurring donations, and this one makes me especially happy.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 0 points 1 week ago (11 children)

It’s disturbing, how many people eagerly embrace eugenics and anti-natalism as long as they can cite a left-wing cause like ecology as their reason

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Funny. I dislike vibe coding because it takes away the “art”.

Implicit in these remarks is the notion that there is something undesirable about an area of human activity that is classified as an "art"; it has to be a Science before it has any real stature. On the other hand, I have been working for more than 12 years on a series of books called "The Art of Computer Programming."

Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of these lil guys?

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

I made some critical posts about it several months ago. It was exhausting. So I stopped. Haven’t changed my position though.

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