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beehaw.org
Basically another shell scripting language. But unlike most other languages like Csh or Fish, it can compile back to Bash. At the moment I am bit conflicted, but the thing it can compile back to Bash is what is very interesting. I’ll keep an eye on this. But it makes the produced Bash code a bit less readable than a handwritten one, if that is the end goal. curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ph0enixKM/AmberNative/master/setup/install.sh" | $(echo /bin/bash) I wish this nonsense of piping a shell script from the internet directly into Bash would stop. It’s a bad idea, because of security concerns. This install.sh script eval and will even run curl itself to download amber and install it from this url url="https://github.com/Ph0enixKM/${__0_name}/releases/download/${__2_tag}/amber_${os}_${arch}" … echo “Please make sure that root user can access /opt directory.”; And all of this while requiring root access. I am not a fan of this kind of distribution and installation. Why not provide a normal manual installation process and link to the projects releases page: https://github.com/Ph0enixKM/Amber/releases BTW its a Rust application. So one could build it with Cargo, for those who have it installed.
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yiffit.net
Me: using safe browsing practices and only downloading from trusted sources My Mom: downloading every toolbar in existence My Mom: “You broke the computer!”
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midwest.social
We have LG washing machine, fridge, and dishwasher. All of our original appliances crapped out within 2 years of each other, and were all around the same age and original to the house. LG was the least shitty, review-wise, in the price range with the features we wanted; they all of them came with WiFi modules. It appears modern appliances are now like cars - if you want certain features, you’re forced to also get features you don’t want. In any case, the marketting justification for each was: dishwasher: download additional washing modes, like rinse-hold. Alerts when the machine is done. Remote start. washing machine: alerts when the machine is done. Remote start. fridge: I don’t recall (it was the first to go) None of ours has been given access to the WiFi, so I just count it as a tax. We also replaced our garage doors recently; the contractor literally didn’t carry any opener models without WiFi. I had to source those myself. The most frustrating thing about all this wasn’t the WiFi, though; it was that the cost to repair each of them was 80% the cost of a new appliance, and most of that was parts. I’d do it again the same way. For comparison, the one appliance I’m trying to not replace is the oven, and we’ve had to have someone come out twice in as many years to fix it. In retrospect, it would have been cheaper to just replace that, too. I get furious just thinking about the waste. Sure, the new appliances are better - the dishwasher is far quieter, is larger inside, and has better drawer geometry, for instance. But we would have been happy in our ignorance if it would have been cost effective to fix rather than replace. None of the originals were LG, BTW. I don’t know how robust these will be. The old appliances lasted 20, but I’m not naive enough to think modern appliances will last that long. If I get anywhere near close to 10 years without a major repair, I’ll be thrilled.
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lemmy.ml
This affects me a lot day to day. I have a phone, but it runs postmarketOS, not iOS or Android. It really shows me the importance of open standards. I feel that every business should be required to support open standards for each of the services they offer. For me, buying train tickets used to be ok, but is getting harder now. Some train operators are really pushing you to use their app now, and getting rid of the option to download a PDF. It really frustrates me: it’s not like it costs them more to offer PDF download - if anything, it’s much cheaper to offer that functionality than to build and maintain an app for iOS and Android. Back when I had an Android phone, I used Monzo, and it was so easy to send money to friends, set up standing orders etc. I wish they offered a proper web interface. Now, I use Natwest’s online banking, and it’s a real pain - I use the card reader to authenticate, then the website logs me out seemingly every 2 mins of inactivity. Some features, like pre-notifying that you’ll be travelling abroad, are only available on the app. I only see this trend continuing. The concert tickets example in the article is insane to me. I can’t think of a use case that is better suited for PDFs, and that’s what we’ve been doing for the last 10+ years without any issues. It really is user hostile and excludes people on the edges of society who don’t fit, for whatever reason, with what the 80-90% do.
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reddthat.com
It’s true. I work in a computer shop and we see literally thousands and thousands of dollars lost from people clicking on ads that look like normal buttons (things like “Download”, “Next”, etc). And not just the elderly either. Everyone has a a combination of inputs to get scared and comply. Folks that are otherwise extremely competent and savvy can get scammed too. The best security you can have online is adblockers, only beaten by using trusted websites. Edit, fair points with sites being slimy these days. I meant using legitimate versions of websites rather than copy/fake websites designed to steal credentials.
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lemmy.ml
How to set up like this with features - Forever full backups/DeDuplication Option Delete changes older than x. How to Only backup Select Data, like only personal data, Save a “Ghost” for other data (internet data not personal) which is only Filename, Metadata and Folder-Structure. “File Change Tracker” to see summary of what files are moved/deleted/renamed. “File History” where I see previous version of files. Config from inside folders for disks (not OS) with e.g..backupconfigfile containing e.g. backup=1, or have select file backuped/not-backed-up. To Backup External and Internal Disk (files) and OSes to backup, Backup select data from Disks, all separately backup-ed to the same backup disk, . |Software|FOSS|Enterprise|OS|Encrypted|GUI|MultiMachine|Dedup|Snapshots|Scalable|Schedule|Image|Lesson| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |Restic Frontends - Resticprofile, 2 , Backrest (garethgeorge), restic-browser) [zerobyte (nicotsx)-Video, Automation, UI, schedule, manage, Monitor]|🟢|🟢|🟢|🟢|🟢|||||||(Seems like is best it’s Old and trusted)| |urbackup (seems Powerful, some people love it some say it’s not reliable) [Backup/Imaging]|🟢||🟢||||||||🟢|Server/Client, ChangeBlockTracker , Lesson , https://christitus.com/urbackup/| |Duplicati|🟢||🟢||🟢|||||||Data issues| |Freefilesync.org|🟢||🟢|||||||||| |Minarca|🟢||🟢|||||||||| |plakar.io|🟢||🟢|||||||||| |syncBKUP (Jim-JMCD)|🟢|||||||||||| |Bacula|🟢|🟢|🟢||🟢|🟢|🟢|🟢|🟢|🟢||Lesson| |Bareos (Bacula Fork)|🟢|🟢|🟢||🟢|🟢||||||| |Kopia|🟢||🟢||🟢|🟢||||||| |vykar|🟢||🟢|🟢|🟢||🟢|||||Rust, YAML config, Support for S3, Custom REST, SFTP Storage. Inspired by BorgBackup, Borgmatic, Restic, Rustic.| |Pika|🟢||❌Windows|||||||||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W30wzKVwCHo| |Borg (borgbackupserver)|🟢||⚠️Windows)(cygwin/WSL) ⚠️macOS|🟢|||🟢|||||| |Duplicacy github|source-available||🟢||🟢|||||||| |BackInTime (rsync frontent for backups)|||❌Windows|||||||||| |blinkdisk|🟢||🟢|||||||||| |Veeam (Free)||🟢|⚠️macOS||🟢|||||||| |Backblaze|-|-||||||||||| |zfs_autobackup|🟢|||||||||||| |eXdupe (rrrlasse)|🟢|||||||||||| |zpaqfranz (fcorbelli)|🟢|||||||||||| |VaultSync (ATAC-Helicopter)|🟢|||||||||||| |https://bvckup2.com/|Maybe Not|||||||||||| |https://www.nakivo.com/|Free|||||||||||| Dead but FOSS https://github.com/zmanda/amanda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List/_of/_backup/_software Freemium |Software|OS| |:-|:-| |uranium|Windows| |SyncBack Free|Windows| Backup and Imaging |Software|Foss| |:-|:-| |ShadowMaker Free|❌| |Paragon Backup|❌| |MSP360|❌| |Macrium Free|❌| |Acronis Free|❌| Disk Imaging |Software|Foss|Imaging|Backup|OS| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows|❌|||| |Rescuezilla (clonezilla)|🟢|🟢||| Sync Software ||Foss|OS| |:-|:-|:-| |Rsync https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync|🟢|All| |RClone - ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKCIi-NxJEo )|🟢|All| |ByteSync|🟢|All| |FreeFileSync|🟢|All| |SyncBackFree||Windows| |Syncthing|🟢|All| Cloud https://www.reddit.com/r/Backup/wiki/index/cloud/_backup/_services/backblaze/ Info ~~Incremental backup method, where I only make full backups once ,~~ ~~Question - as i understand from “grandfather,father,son” method - that Full backups are still necessary when using snapshots/incremental backups, why is that ?~~ “deduplication” is of 2 types Data/Block de-duplication - tech to reduce amount storage required. This breaks files upon into chunks and creates a DB. Data de-duplication is influenced heavily by data type. Data de-duplication is a waste of time with compressed multimedia and encrypted data. Data de-duplication is often incorporated into backup products and can exist in independently, its built into some file system types (Windows server and some Linux). File deduplication - Removing identical files. by comparing the whole file. Homelabers and home users are more worried about this than commercial environments. In commercial environments users and projects are usually allocated a quota storage space and its up to them how they want to manage it. Incrementals Forever and Synthetic Full Backup - incremental may/not have de-duplication. They can also use Change Block Tracking (CBT) to save a lot of backup time. “Forever Full” are simply a variation on synthetic full backups with data deduplication and CBT being optional. Data deduplication occurs when you: Have multiple copies of the same data across multiple machines e.g. the operating system files of the computers you are backing up. Data that has not changed since you last successive backup. This includes files that have partially changed, only new unique data is added to the dedupe database/repository. Old Post about methodology - https://lemmy.ml/post/44433232
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sopuli.xyz
As much as i hate my own answer, when using a computer for work or school you should adapt to using the operating system and sofware supported by that school. The last thing you want is to, in middle of class get instructed to download and use x, and then have to go into a rabbithole of trying to be compliant, missing the class. I would not trust a vm for cad software because i don’t know how heavy the stuff is that you would be doing. You might need that dedicated gpu. dualboot is probably a better option. Another interesting idea, based on the fact that Linux can read and use from windows disks is to make it windows and school appropriate with 2 partitions, then install your preferred linux on a fast bootable usb. This way you can take and run your linux wherever you want, and when you plug it in the laptop you just access the partition from the windows disk to put heavy programs and files. I am doing sm similar on desktop where my old windows drive is still there and functional but is also used as game install drive from linux.
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lemmy.world
Had to set up a new laptop for someone over the weekend and Jesus they just won’t stop begging you not to switch. Search for another browser in the URL/search bar, gigantic banner that pushes the actual search results off the page: “There’s no need to switch browsers, Edge is safe, fast, etc etc etc” Click the download button for Chrome’s installer, a pop-up notification shows up: “Edge is built on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust and security of Microsoft” (fucking lol) Go to switch the default browser in settings, another pop-up shows up again explaining that Edge is the greatest thing since sliced bread, I have to click either “Try Edge (recommended)” or “switch anyway”. Then I spend 30 minutes navigating their maze of a settings app to change a bunch of ad preferences, etc. Then I spend another 30 minutes editing registry entries to disable Cortana, Bing search in the search bar, recommended apps. God damn I’m glad I switched to Linux.
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lemmy.ca
This is the risk of “trusted computing” architectures. Who is governing the “trusted” part of that. These cryptographic signatures are not as much of a death knell for Android as some would have you believe. The trick is to get a common code signing cert into your device, that is then used to sign any third party APK you want to run. You can avoid the Google tax this way. I assume that’s how most sideloading sites and apps are going to handle this. The question is, how do you add that certificate? Is it easy and straight forward (with plenty of scary warnings), as a user? Or is it going to be a developer options deal? Or will I need root to add the cert? I’m not sure what that answer is right now. I just want to finish this post with a few words about trusted computing models. Plainly: Apple has been doing this for years … That’s why you download basically everything from an app store with Apple. Whether on your Mac OS device, your iPhone, iPad or whatever iDevice… Whether the devs need to sign it, or the app gets signed when it lands on the store, there’s a signature to ensure that the app hasn’t been tampered with and that Apple has given the app it’s security blessings, that it is safe to run. Microsoft and Google have both been climbing towards the same forever. Apple embedded their root of trust in their own proprietary TPM which has been included with every Mac, and iDevice for a long ass time. Google also has a TPM, the Titan security module, I believe that was introduced around pixel 3? Or 4?.. Microsoft made huge waves requiring it for Windows 11, and we all know what that discussion looks like. Apple requires a TPM (which they supply, so nobody noticed), Google has been adding a TPM and TPM functionality to their phones for years, and now Windows is the same. None of this is a bad thing. Trusted computing can eliminate much of the need for antivirus software, among other things. I digress. We’ve been going this way for a long time. Google is just more or less, doing what Apple has already done, and what Microsoft will very likely do very soon, making it a requirement. Battlefield 6 I think, was one of the first to require trusted computing on Windows and it will, for damned sure, not be the last that does. The only real hurdle here is managing what is trusted. So far, each vendor has kept the keys to their own kingdoms, but this is contrary to computing concepts. Like the Internet, it should be able to be done without needing trust from a specific provider. That’s how SSL works, that’s how the Internet works, that’s how trusted computing should work. The only thing that should be secret is the private signing keys. What Google, Apple, and Microsoft should be doing, is issuing intermediary keys that can sign code signing certs. So trusted institutions that create apps, like… Idk, valve as an example, can create a signature key for steam and sign Steam with it, so the trust goes from MS root to intermediary key for valve, to steam code signing key, and suddenly you have an app that’s trusted. Valve can then use their key to sign software on their store that may not have a coffee signing key of it’s own. This is just one example based on Windows. And above all of this, the user should be able to import a trusted code signing cert, or an intermediary cert signing cert, to their service as trusted. Anyways, thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
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programming.dev
Two versions of telnyx (4.87.1 and 4.87.2) published to PyPI on March 27, 2026 contain malicious code injected into telnyx/_client.py. The telnyx package averages over 1 million downloads per month (~30,000/day), making this a high-impact supply chain compromise. The payload downloads a second-stage binary hidden inside WAV audio files from a remote server, then either drops a persistent executable on Windows or harvests credentials on Linux/macOS. Stolen data is encrypted with AES-256-CBC and a hardcoded RSA-4096 public key before exfiltration. The RSA key and operational patterns are identical to the litellm PyPI compromise, attributing this attack to TeamPCP with high confidence. No PyPI trusted publisher (OIDC) is configured. Trusted publishers bind PyPI uploads to a specific GitHub repository and workflow, making stolen tokens useless outside that context. Without this protection, anyone with the API token can upload any version from any machine. The most likely scenario is that the PYPI_TOKEN was obtained through a prior credential harvesting operation.
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news.abolish.capital
For more leaked documents (and to support my work finding them) please become a paid subscriber! While ICE agents are temporarily confusing things even more at airports, behind the scenes the Trump administration is paying a posse of local police to carry out its immigration war. An internal ICE financial ledger I obtained shows how the agency is turning local police departments across the county into a vast, decentralized immigration army. This includes payments if cops sign up to be deputized, reimbursements for transportation, salary supplements for cops who process migrant children, and per-arrest-style incentive payments. All of this is taking place under an ICE program called 287(g), part of a 1996 law that granted the Attorney General (and later the Secretary of Homeland Security) the authority to enter into written agreements with state and local governments on immigration. The first agreement under the law was signed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement after 9/11; as of last year, the number of agreements has swelled past 1,000. Today, the program employs a “task force model” under which local police are deputized as ICE agents with the authority to carry out federal immigration law. So despite the broad public backlash against ICE, the agency has a way to carry out its mission without drawing attention to itself. An internal ICE diagram I obtained shows that local officers only become eligible for stipends and salary reimbursements after making their first arrest. The document labels that first arrest as the moment a participant becomes “OPERATIONAL.” Leaked ICE diagram The ledger lists over 400 police departments where ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations is currently negotiating new or expanded cooperation agreements with local police departments, including the amount of money currently allocated to buy their cooperation. The largest payouts are to Florida law enforcement. In addition to earlier awards, ICE has set aside an extra $89 million in incentive funding for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ Division of Highway Patrol, which already has 1,803 “task force officers” credentialed under the program. Then there’s roughly $5 million for the 719 task force officers of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’, and nearly $4 million for the 503 task force officers of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. ICE 287(g) payouts 2.55MB ∙ PDF file Download Download In addition to Florida, other red states (and they are mostly red states) are taking ICE’s money to become bounty hunters to arrest supposed immigration law violators. Arkansas State Police is receiving a base award of $4,225,025 covering 550 task force officers, with an estimated $8,250,000 more in incentive funding to come. Oklahoma’s Department of Public Safety is getting a $5,380,025 base award covering 704 officers, a $1,650,000 salary modification on top of that, and a staggering $38,220,000 TBD line item still pending. Louisiana State Police is receiving a base award of $880,025 for 104 officers, plus an additional $45,000 salary modification. The money flows well beyond large state agencies, to small and obscure agencies most people (including myself) have never heard of. The Point Comfort Police Department in Texas — a town of fewer than 700 people — has a base agreement of $167,525 to supply nine task force officers, plus an additional $5,000 salary modification. The Key Colony Beach Police Department in Florida is getting $119,000 for a single officer once you add its $107,500 base award to an $11,500 salary supplement. The Coward Police Department in South Carolina, also serving a town of roughly 700, has a base award of $107,520 for one officer, with another $15,000 modification layered on top. Then there are the departments whose payouts have exploded between their initial agreements with the federal government and the later Trump modifications in 2025 and 2026. Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina started with a base award of $542,525; now it has a pending modification that tacks on nearly $3 million more in incentive payments. Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Florida received $385,015 upfront, and is now slated to receive an additional $2,835,000 in a later modification. Most jarring is Bradley County Constable District 7 in Tennessee: a single officer received a base award of $107,525, followed by a $11,500 salary bump — and now a further modification appears to add $1,820,550 in new funding for that one cop. An ICE source provided me with a screenshot of some of the disbursement categories, which included salaries and benefits for task force officers “conducting enforcement activities” and incentive payments for those “conducting immigration enforcement activities related to the locations of UACs [Unaccompanied Alien Child].” Leaked ICE document The ICE source told me that the program had grown so large that simply administering it is taking up a significant amount of the agency’s time. Absent from the list of bounty payments to states and localities are new payments to California, New Mexico, Illinois, Vermont, and Massachusetts as well as other “blue” states. The reason? The money is being doled out to cooperative pro-Trump states and departments, affirming that these are political payoffs and hardly a pure national program. Subscribe if you don’t trust this new Posse Comeandgetus army Leave a comment Share — Edited by William M. Arkin From Ken Klippenstein via This RSS Feed.
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ibbit.at
For more leaked documents (and to support my work finding them) please become a paid subscriber! While ICE agents are temporarily confusing things even more at airports, behind the scenes the Trump administration is paying a posse of local police to carry out its immigration war. An internal ICE financial ledger I obtained shows how the agency is turning local police departments across the county into a vast, decentralized immigration army. This includes payments if cops sign up to be deputized, reimbursements for transportation, salary supplements for cops who process migrant children, and per-arrest-style incentive payments. All of this is taking place under an ICE program called 287(g), part of a 1996 law that granted the Attorney General (and later the Secretary of Homeland Security) the authority to enter into written agreements with state and local governments on immigration. The first agreement under the law was signed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement after 9/11; as of last year, the number of agreements has swelled past 1,000. Today, the program employs a “task force model” under which local police are deputized as ICE agents with the authority to carry out federal immigration law. So despite the broad public backlash against ICE, the agency has a way to carry out its mission without drawing attention to itself. An internal ICE diagram I obtained shows that local officers only become eligible for stipends and salary reimbursements after making their first arrest. The document labels that first arrest as the moment a participant becomes “OPERATIONAL.” Leaked ICE diagram The ledger lists over 400 police departments where ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations is currently negotiating new or expanded cooperation agreements with local police departments, including the amount of money currently allocated to buy their cooperation. The largest payouts are to Florida law enforcement. In addition to earlier awards, ICE has set aside an extra $89 million in incentive funding for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ Division of Highway Patrol, which already has 1,803 “task force officers” credentialed under the program. Then there’s roughly $5 million for the 719 task force officers of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’, and nearly $4 million for the 503 task force officers of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. ICE 287(g) payouts2.55MB ∙ PDF fileDownloadDownload In addition to Florida, other red states (and they are mostly red states) are taking ICE’s money to become bounty hunters to arrest supposed immigration law violators. Arkansas State Police is receiving a base award of $4,225,025 covering 550 task force officers, with an estimated $8,250,000 more in incentive funding to come. Oklahoma’s Department of Public Safety is getting a $5,380,025 base award covering 704 officers, a $1,650,000 salary modification on top of that, and a staggering $38,220,000 TBD line item still pending. Louisiana State Police is receiving a base award of $880,025 for 104 officers, plus an additional $45,000 salary modification. The money flows well beyond large state agencies, to small and obscure agencies most people (including myself) have never heard of. The Point Comfort Police Department in Texas — a town of fewer than 700 people — has a base agreement of $167,525 to supply nine task force officers, plus an additional $5,000 salary modification. The Key Colony Beach Police Department in Florida is getting $119,000 for a single officer once you add its $107,500 base award to an $11,500 salary supplement. The Coward Police Department in South Carolina, also serving a town of roughly 700, has a base award of $107,520 for one officer, with another $15,000 modification layered on top. Then there are the departments whose payouts have exploded between their initial agreements with the federal government and the later Trump modifications in 2025 and 2026. Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina started with a base award of $542,525; now it has a pending modification that tacks on nearly $3 million more in incentive payments. Lee County Sheriff’s Office in Florida received $385,015 upfront, and is now slated to receive an additional $2,835,000 in a later modification. Most jarring is Bradley County Constable District 7 in Tennessee: a single officer received a base award of $107,525, followed by a $11,500 salary bump — and now a further modification appears to add $1,820,550 in new funding for that one cop. An ICE source provided me with a screenshot of some of the disbursement categories, which included salaries and benefits for task force officers “conducting enforcement activities” and incentive payments for those “conducting immigration enforcement activities related to the locations of UACs [Unaccompanied Alien Child].” Leaked ICE document The ICE source told me that the program had grown so large that simply administering it is taking up a significant amount of the agency’s time. Absent from the list of bounty payments to states and localities are new payments to California, New Mexico, Illinois, Vermont, and Massachusetts as well as other “blue” states. The reason? The money is being doled out to cooperative pro-Trump states and departments, affirming that these are political payoffs and hardly a pure national program. Subscribe if you don’t trust this new Posse Comeandgetus army Leave a comment Share — Edited by William M. Arkin From Ken Klippenstein via this RSS feed
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“Kaiser executives say they’re not using AI to make patient care determinations, but they won’t say what technology is underpinning the online questionnaires that automatically determine whether patients require urgent appointments and assess whether they may be a threat to themselves,” said Carolyn Staehle, a behavioral therapist in San Francisco. “Whatever Kaiser wants to call it, it’s not a human being making these potentially life and death decisions, and it’s not the same level of care as being assessed by a licensed therapist.” Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest health maintenance organization (HMO) is forcing its therapists onto the streets in the ongoing battle to deny mental health parity with medical in its services to 12 million members. The 2400 striking mental health care workers are members of the National Union of Health Care Workers (NUHW). They walked out on Wednesday, March 18, a “practice” strike, but most likely a taste of what’s to come. In 2022, these workers struck for ten weeks, the longest mental health care workers’ strike recorded. Two issues dominated negotiations from the start: workload for Kaiser therapists and wait time for Kaiser patients. The strikers won on both, forcing concessions until then all but unheard of. The strikers won break-through provisions to retain staff, reduce wait times for patients and a plan to collaborate on transforming Kaiser’s model for providing mental health care. This time, it’s inevitable the fight will be just as hard fought. But the NUHW members are battle-tested; each contract fight with Kaiser thus far has included a strike. More, this time the NUHW members were joined in a sympathy strike by thousands of registered nurses, who shared their concerns about Kaiser’s increasing use of artificial intelligence to the detriment of patient care. This can hardly be over-estimated. Since the 2009 SEIU trusteeship, Kaiser has faced a workforce has been deeply divided. But not so much this time, though thousands of service workers will still cross picket lines. The registered nurses are represented by the National Nurses Association. Stationary Engineers, represented by IUOE, Local 39, will also hold a sympathy strike with mental health workers, who will walk picket lines outside Kaiser medical centers in Oakland, Sacramento, Fresno, Santa Clara and Santa Rosa. “We’re proud to strike alongside registered nurses and engineers in the fight for human-centered care at Kaiser,” said Joshua Gibbons, a therapist for Kaiser in Sacramento. “Mental healthcare is about human connection, and Kaiser is recklessly forging ahead with untested artificial intelligence that it sees potentially replacing us and the care we provide our patients.” Kaiser is determined to rescind past concessions, never mind that in 2023, a $200 million agreement with the California Department of Managed Health Care that it lacks sufficient behavioral health providers. Last month, Kaiser entered into a $31 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor over violations of mental health parity laws. Alas, in our new world, “billions” has replaced “millions.” Kaiser has $67 billion in reserves. Kaiser’s CEO Greg Adams, is reported to receive more than $20 million annually. Kaiser must reimburse patients who had to pay out-of-pocket for mental health treatment they couldn’t get from Kaiser. So, fines, no problem. “Kaiser has been punished and fined so many times for mental health violations, we can’t let it get away with more,” says Kaiser therapist Emma Olsen. “Our patients need human therapists, who can work seamlessly with their doctors and have enough time to do our jobs right — and it’s clear Kaiser doesn’t want to pay for that level of care.” Yet Kaiser wants to add AI to its array of extreme proposals – it is demanding “flexibility,” meaning all but a free hand in the introduction of AI. The workers have been without a contract since September. The sides remain far apart, with Kaiser sticking to proposals that would reverse patient care safeguards previously won by therapists and open the door to replacing therapist jobs with artificial intelligence and further outsourcing care. When it comes to AI, Kaiser is setting the stage to not just replace work done by therapists but to replace therapists themselves. Why is Kaiser doing this? The behemoth was once known as union-friendly. Workers supported it and were central in its origins and growth. “It’s a corporation,” says Sal Rosselli, president emeritus of the union. “It’s the bottom line. Profit and competition.” Kaiser is a competitor, an empire builder, but this costs money. Kaiser, which began in California and stayed there for decades, now has hospitals and clinics in Hawaii, Washington state, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. It’s like General Motors in the fifties or Amazon today. Healthcare is remaking the US economy. It’s the nation’s top employer, surpassing manufacturing and service. In 38 states, the industry is the biggest employer. Manufacturing cities like Cleveland and Pittsburgh have transitioned to healthcare as the driver of their economies. Hospitals are often the largest employers in small towns and rural settings. The industry will continue to grow (it can’t be outsourced, not like manufacturing), despite looming cuts in federal health care spending. Healthcare is an engine of the twenty-first century economy; its workers are our blue-collar millions. 2,400 workers, not so big, then. But it’s 2,400 in a union that fights, and we need fighters. Their example is incalculable. A note. Seeing daily the rampaging of ICE on our streets and murder of healthcare workers in Minneapolis and in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran as well as the destruction of their hospitals, all the more important that we understand the connections and also support our sanctuaries and the healthcare workers who stand up in the face of repression, especially those healthcare workers who have been discipled or fired for daring to say Genocide. Thanks to Matthew Artz. The post Kaiser Permanente, AI, and the Workers on Strike, Again appeared first on CounterPunch.org. From CounterPunch.org via this RSS feed
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A judge ordered the reinstatement of a video game developer after he was fired as part of a scheme cooked up by a CEO using ChatGPT. Facing the possibility of paying out a massive bonus to the developer of Subnautica 2, the CEO of publisher Krafton used ChatGPT to create a plan to take over the development studio and force out its founder, according to court records. The Monday ruling details the bizarre story. Unknown Worlds Entertainment is the studio behind the 2018 underwater survival game Subnautica. The company has since been working on the sequel, Subnautica 2. In 2021, South Korean publisher Krafton bought Unknown Worlds Entertainment for $500 million and promised to pay out another $250 million if Subnautica 2 sold well enough. Krafton’s internal sales projections for Subnautica 2 looked great, and looked like it would be on the hook for the additional $250 million. In an attempt to avoid paying this, Krafton CEO Changhan Kim turned to ChatGPT for help avoiding paying the developers the $250 million bonus. “As Unknown Worlds prepared to release its hotly anticipated sequel, Subnautica 2, the parties’ relationship fractured,” the court decision said. “Fearing he had agreed to a ‘pushover’ contract, Krafton’s CEO consulted an artificial intelligence chatbot to contrive a corporate ‘takeover’ strategy.” Kim partnered with Krafton Head of Corporate Development Maria Park and the company’s legal team to work out options. He toyed with finding a reason to fire the founders. According to court records, Park pinged Kim on Slack and told him that attempting to avoid paying the bonus would be legally risky. “Hi CEO . . . it seems to be highly likely that the earn-out will still be paid if the sales goal is achieved regardless of the dismissal with cause,” the Slack message said according to court records. “Therefore, there isn’t much that we can practically gain other than punishment with a simple dismissal alone, whereas I am worried that we may be exposed to lawsuit and reputation risk.” But the CEO would not accept defeat. “And so Kim turned to ChatGPT for help,” court records said. “When the AI chatbot responded that the earnout would be ‘difficult to cancel,’ Kim complained to Park that the [payout] was a ‘contract under which we can only be dragged around.’” Kim pressed the chatbot for an answer. “At ChatGPT’s suggestion, Kim formed an internal task force, dubbed ‘Project X.’ The task force’s mandate was to either negotiate a ‘deal’ on the earnout or execute a ‘Take Over’ of Unknown Worlds. They looked to buy time,” court records said. “Kim sought ChatGPT’s counsel on how to proceed if Krafton failed to reach a deal with Unknown Worlds on the earnout. The AI chatbot prepared a ‘Response Strategy’ to a ‘No-Deal’ Scenario.” This was a piece of ChatGPT’s “Project X” for Krafton: “a. Preemptive Framing - Repeat that protecting quality and fan trust is the highest priority, undermine the ‘Large Corporation VS. Indie’ framingb. Securing Control Points -* Lock down Steam/console publishing rights and access rights over code/build pipeline through both legal and technical aspects.* For the earn-out freeze, keep room for negotiations through provision stating ‘immediate removal if specific development results are achieved’a. Systematic materials for legal defense - Prepare contract interpretation memorandums, log all communications, seek external consultationb. Team retention - Operation of retention packages for key personnel and rapid backfill pipelines in anticipation of resignation/departure scenariosc. Two handed strategy - Create a structure that allows for both hardball (Legal+ Finance) and softball (Support/Incentives) approaches so moderate factions within Unknown Worlds can push for compromise.” Kim followed ChatGPT’s advice rather than his lawyers’ advice, according to the court records. The first step was posting a message on Subanutica’s website to get fans on his side. According to court documents, Kim said the goal of the message was to “secure public support from fans and legal validation of our legitimacy.” He then suggested that ChatGPT write it for him. It achieved the opposite of his intended goal. Fans found the message bizarre and worried about the future of the game. Those fears were compounded when Kim fired the game’s original creators and entered into a legal battle with them. The legal battle is ongoing, but Kim looks set to lose. The judge has ordered he reinstate the fired developers and has exposed the CEO’s flailing use of ChatGPT. Krafton told Kotaku that it was “evaluating its options” regarding the ruling and that it “puts players at the heart of every decision.” From 404 Media via this RSS feed
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Subscribe now Every month I publish a collection of my work called JOHNSTONE magazine. The new issue is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This one is titled “They’re Going To Keep Lying About This War The Entire Time,” and features a painting of Donald Trump. They lied about the girls’ school being struck by an Iranian missile. They lied about nuclear weapons. They lied about tens of thousands of protesters being killed. They lied that this war is about women’s rights. They lied that this war is about bringing freedom and democracy to the Iranian people. They’ve been lying since before this war started, and they’re going to keep lying every day until it’s over. Don’t believe anything they say. Don’t trust anyone who sides with these lying warmongers. Don’t trust any of them ever again. Their murderousness is showing you the true nature of the US empire. Their lies are unmasking the true face of the people who rule our world. They are telling you who they are. Believe them. You can get a paperback copy of this issue by clicking here, or a pay-what-you-feel digital copy by clicking here. Other paperback editions of JOHNSTONE can be purchased by clicking here. Other digital editions can be downloaded by clicking here. You can also get a subscription to the digital versions which will be sent to your inbox every month by clicking here. As with all my work, everything contained in this magazine is free to reuse, reproduce or republish in any way. CONTENTS: Political Maturity Is Realizing The Commies Were Correct … 3 The US Keeps Openly Admitting It Deliberately Caused The Iran Protests … 5 The Plutocrats Who Rule Our World Aren’t Even Enjoying Themselves … 8 If You Think Our Rulers Do Bad Things In Secret, Wait Til You See What They Do Out In The Open … 10 In Australia The Police Beat You Up For Opposing Genocide … 11 Our Leaders Couldn’t Fix Our Problems If They Wanted To (And They Don’t Want To) … 14 More Shockingly Honest Confessions From The Empire Managers … 16 The Ticking Time Bomb Looming Over Gaza, And Other Notes … 18 Democrats Aren’t Resisting Trump’s Iran War Because They Secretly Support It … 21 It’s Very Possible To Be Both Happy And Well-Informed … 23 Tell Iranian And Cuban Diaspora Warmongers To Shut The Fuck Up … 25 We Deserve Better War Propaganda … 26 If You Think The US Wants To Bring Democracy To Iran, Watch What They’re Currently Doing To Iraq … 27 No Bro This War Will Be Completely Different, Bro … 29 If Iran Kills US Troops, The Blame Rests Solely On The US And Israel … 30 Fuck Everyone Who Made This War Possible … 33 US Calls Iranian Retaliatory Strikes “Unprovoked”, And Other Notes … 35 If Westerners Could Wrap Their Minds Around What War Really Is … 38 Iran Is Morally Superior To The United States … 40 The US War Machine Is Run By Deranged Armageddon Cultists … 42 This Is Even Dumber And Crazier Than The Iraq War … 44 The US Soldiers Killed In This War Were Not Heroes, And Other Notes … 45 It Is Not Okay For Grown Adults To Believe Infantile Fairy Tales About Iran … 48 Opposing “Both Sides” In This War Is Crazy Imperialist Nonsense, And Other Notes … 49 We Are The Villains In This Story … 52 They Lied About The School Bombing In Iran, And They’re Going To Keep On Lying … 54 Israel And Its Supporters Are Causing Attacks On Jewish Institutions … 58 Again, you can get a paperback copy of this issue by clicking here, or click here for a digital pay-what-you-feel copy. _________________ Caitlin’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The best way to make sure you see everything I write is to get on my free mailing list. My work is entirely reader-supported, so if you enjoyed this piece here are some options where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. Click here for links for my social media, books, merch, and audio/video versions of each article. All my work is free to bootleg and use in any way, shape or form; republish it, translate it, use it on merchandise; whatever you want. All works co-authored with my husband Tim Foley. Bitcoin donations: 1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2 From Caitlin’s Newsletter via This RSS Feed.
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I like Incremental backup methodology, but it needs frequent full backups (as i understand from “grandfather,father,son” method), How to have version control where i only create full-backup only once ? and I can choose to Delete changes older than 1 month. How to Only backup Select Data, like only personal data, and a “Ghost” for other data. Ghost is only filename and it’s metadata (also folder structure). Data selected for Ghost is from internet which can be downloaded. Related “file change tracker” to see summary of what files are moved/deleted/renamed. “File History” where I see previous version of files. Software ? Seems like https://restic.net/ is best as it’s enterprise trusted works on all OS, How do I set it up like I described in the Original Post. I have a external disk and internal HDD, I want to backup select data, to a 3rd disk, both backup to the same disk, both separately backup-ed.
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archiving this as a whole HTML file, since there’s a paywall that archivers don’t bypass (I think I got to the article on some kind of free trial? I put in my email, didn’t pick a subscription and then it just unlocked so I downloaded the page itself) The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poverty The poverty line, a six-decade-old benchmark, claims to define the threshold to the middle class. The number is a lie. ::: spoiler more For my whole career in finance, I have distrusted the obvious. And yet, for many years there was one number I assumed was an actuarial fact: the U.S. poverty line. Yes, I saw Americans feeling poorer every year, despite economic growth and low unemployment. But ultimately, I trusted the official statistics. Until I saw a simple statement buried in a research paper. And I realized that number—created more than 60 years ago, with good intentions—was a lie. The statement was this: “The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.” When I read it I felt sick. And when you understand that number, you will understand the rage of Americans who have been told that their lives have been getting better when they are barely able to stay afloat. In 1963, Mollie Orshansky, an economist at the Social Security Administration, observed that families spent roughly one-third of their income on groceries. Since pricing data was hard to come by for many items (e.g., housing), if you could calculate a minimum adequate food budget at the grocery store, you could multiply by three and establish a poverty line. Orshansky presented her findings in 1965. She was drawing a floor, a line below which families were clearly in crisis. For that time, that floor made sense. Housing was relatively cheap. A family could rent a decent apartment or buy a home on a single income. Healthcare was provided by employers and cost relatively little (Blue Cross coverage cost in the range of $10 per month). Childcare didn’t really exist as a market—mothers stayed home, family helped, or neighbors (who likely had someone home) watched each others’ kids. Cars were affordable, if prone to breakdowns. College tuition could be covered with a summer job. Orshansky’s food-times-three formula was crude, but as a crisis threshold—a measure of “too little”—it roughly corresponded to reality. But everything changed between 1963 and 2024. Housing costs exploded. Healthcare became the largest household expense for many families. Employer coverage shrank while deductibles grew. Childcare became a market, and that market became ruinously expensive. College went from affordable to crippling. The labor model shifted. A second income became mandatory to maintain the standard of living that one income formerly provided. But a second income meant childcare became mandatory, which meant, for many, two cars became mandatory. The composition of household spending transformed completely. In 2024, food-at-home is no longer 33 percent of household spending. For most families, it’s 5 to 7 percent. Housing now consumes 35 to 45 percent. Healthcare takes 15 to 25 percent. Childcare, for families with young children, can eat 20 to 40 percent. If you keep Orshansky’s logic—if you maintain her principle that poverty could be defined by the inverse of food’s budget share—but update the food share to reflect today’s reality, the multiplier is no longer three. It becomes 16. Which means if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four—the official poverty line in 2024—wouldn’t be $31,200. If the crisis threshold—the floor below which families cannot function—is honestly updated to current spending patterns, it lands at close to $140,000. Consider this: The median household income is roughly $80,000. We have been told, implicitly, that a family earning $80,000 is doing fine—safely above poverty, solidly middle class, perhaps comfortable. But if Orshansky’s crisis threshold were calculated today using her own methodology, that $80,000 family would be living in deep poverty. To understand why, you need to look at the real costs of sustaining a family today. I wanted to see what would happen if I ignored the official stats and simply calculated the cost of existing. I built a basic needs budget for a family of four (two earners, two kids). No vacations, no Netflix, no luxury. Just the “participation tickets” required to hold a job and raise kids in 2024. Using conservative data for a family in New Jersey: Childcare: $32,773 Housing: $23,267 Food: $14,717 Transportation: $14,828 Healthcare: $10,567 Other essentials: $21,857 Required net income: $118,009 Add federal, state, and FICA taxes of roughly $18,500, and you arrive at a required gross income of $136,500. This is Orshansky’s “too little” threshold, updated honestly. This is the floor. The single largest line item isn’t housing. It’s childcare: $32,773. This is the trap. To reach the median household income of $80,000, most families require two earners. But the moment you add the second earner to chase that income, you trigger the childcare expense. If one parent stays home, the income drops to $40,000 or $50,000—well below what’s needed to survive. If both parents work to hit $100,000, they hand over $32,000 to a daycare center. Then take housing. Critics will immediately argue that I’m cherry-picking expensive cities. They will say $136,500 is a number for San Francisco or Manhattan, not “Real America.” So let’s look at “Real America.” The model above allocates $23,267 per year for housing. That breaks down to $1,938 per month. This is the number that serious economists use to tell you that you’re doing fine. I analyzed a modest “starter home,” which turned out to be in Caldwell, New Jersey—the kind of place a Teamster could afford in 1955. I went to Zillow to see what it costs to live in that same town if you don’t have a down payment and are forced to rent. There are exactly seven 2-bedroom+ units available in the entire town. The cheapest one rents for $2,715 per month. So when I say the real poverty line is $140,000, I’m being conservative. I’m using optimistic, national-average housing assumptions. If we plug in the actual cost of living in the zip codes where the jobs are—where rent is $2,700, not $1,900—the threshold pushes past $160,000. The housing market isn’t just expensive; it’s broken. Seven units available in a town of thousands? That isn’t a market. That’s a shortage masquerading as an auction. Then there is everything else you need to function in society, the cost of the “participation ticket.” Back in 1955, that included a $5 phone line. Adjusted for inflation, that would be $58. Except that in reality, to function today—to factor authenticate your bank account, to answer work emails, to check your child’s school portal (which is now digital-only)—you need a smartphone plan and home broadband. That’s not $58. It’s $200 or more. Economists will look at my $140,000 figure and scream about “hedonic adjustments.” And yes, cars today have airbags, homes have air conditioning, and phones are supercomputers. The quality of many goods has gotten markedly better. But we are not calculating the price of luxury. We are calculating the price of participation. Now run this kind of participation audit across the economy. In 1955, Blue Cross family coverage was roughly $10 per month ($115 in today’s dollars). Today, the average family premium is over $1,600 per month. That’s 14x inflation. In 1955, the Social Security tax was 2 percent on the first $4,200 of income. The maximum annual contribution was $84. Adjusted for inflation, that’s about $960 a year. Today, a family earning the median $80,000 pays over $6,100. That’s 6x inflation. And childcare? In 1955, this cost was zero because the economy supported a single-earner model. Today, it’s $32,000. That’s an infinite increase in the cost of participation. The only thing that actually tracked official Consumer Price Index was… food. Everything else—the inescapable fees required to hold a job, stay healthy, and raise children—inflated at multiples of the official rate when considered on a participation basis. Yes, these goods and services are better. I would not trade my 65″ 4K TV mounted flat on the wall for the 25″ TV that dominated a living room, but I also don’t have the choice to pay less money and buy the old model. ::: cont’d in response
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Universities in the 1990s were sovereign and self-sufficient. Nothing notable was outsourced (just food). It was possible to do research without unnecessary dependencies on shitty corps like Microsoft. Students and non-students could walk into a campus library and use UNIX PCs. Email and usenet was hosted in-house. Universities were independent, which served to demonstrate both competence and leadership. Universities today: Email outsourced to Gmail or MS Library e-books have (US-based) Cloudflare as an exclusive gatekeeper. Conform to Cloudflare Inc’s oversight and access demands or lose access to books. 99.9% of students on Facebook, tiktok, snapchat (they track each others’ realtime location this way), instagram, twitter, etc Facebook officially used by the university, thus excluding the small minority of non-FB students from being informed of campus events/parties, one-off seminars, class schedule changes, info from some departments like foreign exchange, etc MatLAB used instead of GNU Octave, b/c “MATLAB” is the keyword headhunters/recruiters (both robotic and human) want to see on CVs Students collaborate using Google Docs (will not touch anything more sophisticated than WYSIWYG, like emacs, LaTeX, or git) Internal university webpage titled “Free Software” has no FOSS, just proprietary tools that are gratis for students (like MS Office) Campus PC labs no longer exist b/c all students have their own laptops, and the students only run Windows or MacOS (yes, in a college of science & engineering I shit you not) University assumes every student has mobile phone svc & the will to share their number, so the rest are excluded from school resources that require 2FA by SMS Students search the enshitified/paywalled web to do research. Lexis/Nexis subscriptions apparently unheard of – which in the 90s gave ad-free full-text access to decent/reputable sources coupled with a quite powerful search syntax. Although it must be said that the Lexis Nexis company has become a privacy adversary as they snoop on individuals these days. Students must choose between education and privacy w/autonomy. Cannot have all human rights at the same time. But apparently they don’t care. Surveys show that ~50 yrs ago ~80+% students prioritized developing a meaningful philosophy of life above making money. College freshmen have been surveyed every year since then. Gradually, those numbers have completely inverted. I see a connection between universities becoming dependent corporate boot lickers and students becoming money-centric. AI chatbots for research To get to my subject line, I hear friends talk about all the great use they get out of chatGPT. I won’t touch the fuckin’ thing. Not out of some AI phobia or distrust, but because I simply boycott MACFANG (will not feed the oppressive surveillance advertising tech giants). So I am losing touch and likely developing some ignorance because of my principles. In my view of how the world should work, I should be able to experience a decent AI chatbot like chatGPT at a university. The university should be technologically independent. They should have their own in-house research tools built by profs and students for profs and students. Research tools should not be dependent on clicked-ads resulting purchases of phones and selfie sticks or whatever stupid shit they need to sell. And without the underlying corporate greed, an edu chatbot would be designed for transparency (thus sources cited). Universities have become followers. They are no longer ahead of industry. They serve as HR factories to produce workers for corps, as opposed to teaching students what corps are doing wrong and how to do better. Profs choose tools that corps want on CVs instead of the best tool for the job for teaching brand-independent concepts. Students are happy w/this (see ¶3 - they just want a good CV). We need a “Make Universities Leaders Again” (MULA) movement. Well, shit, that’s pronounced as “moolah”… not good for PR, but you get the idea.
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None of them. As a programmer, the only people you’re keeping out with those are the people who wouldn’t break into your home anyway. As soon as one of those hits the market, its out dated and no longer safe. Security is always playing catch up, just look at Kia as an example. Right now, you (yes you, with potentially no tech background) can go on the internet and download a program to a key fob using youtube as a guide, and steal a brand new Kia. Never trust one of these “smart” locks, a burglar is only one youtube video away.
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With many jurisdictions introducing age verification laws for various things on the internet, a lot of questions have come up about implementation and privacy. I haven’t seen anyone come up with a real working example of how to implement it technically/cryptographically that don’t have any major flaws. Setting aside the ethics of age verification and whether or not it’s a good idea - is it technically possible to accurately verify someone’s age while respecting their privacy and if so how? For an implementation to work, it should: Let the service know that the user is an adult by providing a verifiable proof of adulthood (eg. A proof that’s signed by a trusted authority/government) Not let the service know any other information about the user besides what they already learn through http or TCP/IP Not let a government or age verification authority know whenever a user is accessing 18+ content Make it difficult or impossible for a child to fake a proof of adulthood, eg. By downloading an already verified anonymous signing key shared by an adult, etc. Be simple enough to implement that non-technical people can do it without difficulty and without purchasing bespoke hardware Ideally not requiring any long term storage of personal information by a government or verification authority that could be compromised in a data breach I think the first two points are fairly simple (lots of possible implementations with zero-knowledge proofs and anonymous signing keys, credentials with partial disclosure, authenticating with a trusted age verification system, etc. etc.) The rest of the points are the difficult ones. Some children will circumvent any system (eg. By getting an adult to log in for them) but a working system should deter most children and require more than a quick download or a web search for instructions on how to circumvent. The last point might already be a lost cause depending on your government, so unfortunately it’s probably not as important.