Right, I understand that perspective, but there is a way to do this with multi-party computation and some other cryptography where no one would have the actual power/be able to see the data/have control. The main issue is it’s expensive to run and no one would be incentivized to run it.

Not true, there are ways to do this privately with cryptography

If anyone is doing actual work trying to solve this please DM me, I’m interested in helping.

How?

Ya you could definitely do this way too. There is a standard that google came up with called private state tokens that would allow you to do this in a pretty clean way, if you were cool with using your governments portal.

Essentially you would login to the govt portal, they would issue you some limited set of tokens (let’s say 5) that would expire after 30 days. You would go to an age restricted website and sign up and that would “burn” a token.

You could use ZK on top of this to make sure that the same email address or some other “nullifier” piece of information was used, to prevent an 18 yo kid from selling their tokens to 17 yos.

Good point

You definitely can do this with cryptography, it’s a really hard problem, but I worked in this space for a number of years, it’s possible.

I worked in this field for 3 years, a lot of the core parts are written, but there are a few key pieces missing and no one has taken it to real production.

You can use a passport in pretty much any country and prove you’re over a certain age. Here is a demo: https://github.com/dog-18/dog18

The parts that are missing are primarily around making secure nullifiers, which prevents someone from reusing identities, but also without revealing any private information. We were pursuing research that allowed nullifier generation in MPC where none of the servers or the users knew the “salt” that their identity was hashed with, so no one could recover the original piece of unique data (like their passport number, even if a govt had a hunch about which passports signed up to a service) but it would also prevent them from signing up with multiple accounts. We got our funding cut pretty bad and management was a mess, so I left and that research I think was shut down. This really is the key part to actually make that viable in the real world though. It’s maybe a year worth of research and a year worth of production left to make that practical.

From personal experience, I went that route (open source non profit) and it ended up being a shit show, i wouldn’t assume it’s better. I think going the route of just producing things people want to make their life easier is somewhat reasonable. I’ve been having a bit of a time sorting this out myself.

Definitely take the GPU out and heatsink off the CPU, when it gets banged around both of those things because of their mass can fuck up your motherboard. I moved a lot for about a decade of my lifr and had multiple desktops get fucked up.

I’d also check these out: https://www.amazon.com/Shipping-Temperature-Expanding-Packaging-Instant/dp/B0C5J8VYL3

You can make a new profile in game and replay 😉

I agree, I’m really trying to give people the benefit of the doubt but it is just really hard to believe they are a dev and just have never seen that logo before.

https://github.com/coleam00/Archon/issues/239

I filed an issue with an AI project who was unknowingly using the Arch logo for their project, they used an AI to generate it.

Mines running strong even through hardware changes for 6 years now

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Ahh, makes sense. Multizone is something I’ll probably end up doing in my house soon, thankfully all my ductwork is exposed in the basement which makes it easy. Thanks appreciate it, I’m going to try to get a prototype board spun in the next week or two, test it out for a bit, and then see if other people are interested in them too. Appreciate the info, I should consider being able to control dampers also.

Cool, I’ve come across this before. I have been looking for a more open thermostat, preferably esp32 based, that I can have good local control over. I have started to do the board layout for one with some air quality sensors built in.

If you don’t mind me asking whats more complicated about your hvac setup? Multistage? Heat pump? Multizone?

They do work pretty well, I’m phasing out the Google homes in my house trying to go completely local, and the voice PEs are pretty good for voice control.

Which one would you recommend?

If he helps bump the gaming industry in a better/healthier direction, he deserves 6 figures imo