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For years the plan was to make this scanning mandatory. In early November 2025, however, the Danish government amended the text: scanning is now “voluntary” for individual EU states to decide upon. That small word change was enough for the 27 EU countries to agree on November 26.

If chat control would have been made mandatory, you can bet (and i’d be willing to bet a lot of money on it) that you’re going to have AfD in germany and FPÖ in austria (since they’re already pretty anti-EU) making a lot of noise about how evil the EU is for infringing on people’s privacy. (And they would be right about this, as much as i don’t like to agree with them.) This would give them more votes, than they already have.

Making it voluntary is a clever trick of the EU to not make yourself extremely unpopular among the population. Well done, i’d say.

yeah, you’re right, i was assuming too :)

damn, i gotta steal that meme. it applies waaay too often.

because you don’t actually consider them; you just assume they are

same for alcohol

The problem is that it leaves a paper trail.

Grace also knows what number n got verified, and the identity of the user n. Later, the website can ask the age-verifying service who user n actually was. It requires that the age-verifying service cooperates with the website, though, but this could be mandated by law, which would create a single point of (privacy) failure.

PS: i love your writing style. It’s so simple and clear :)

Cryptography is a really complicated subject. You managed to express it very easily understandable.

Yeah a small false-positive rate will have to be accepted. This is the same like you can’t fully prevent minors from getting access to alcohol. Consider that their older sibling can buy it for them (at an increased price, ofc).

What matters is to keep the rate of false positives reasonably small, i’d say.

See my comment in this thread involving drawing a piece of paper from a box in real life. Since nobody knows which piece of paper you draw from a box, if many people do this at the same time, it’s impossible to establish an one-to-one mapping between age-verifying tokens and people’s identities.

I doubt this doesn’t actually leave a paper trail.

At some point, you send that nonce to an age-verifier service. So they can keep track of it, and if the 18+ website you visited at some point later wants to know your identity, they can ask the age-verifier service who asked for that nonce to be signed.

This involves that two organizations are corrupt, however: both the 18+ website and the age-verifying service. Law could mandate that they both cooperate, however, thus creating a single point of (privacy) failure.

I still believe it is doable, however. Check my other comment involving a piece of paper that is drawn from a box. My method relies on the fact that the age-verifying service doesn’t actually know which code they gave you, just that they gave you one. For digital services, seevices can always keep track of their input/output, which is not always possible in real life.

It is doable, i think. Consider:

You go to your local library. They verify you’re above the age limit (like they do at supermarkets when you try to buy alcohol: either look you in the face and recognize you’re clearly old enough, or have to show them some kind of id, details vary.)

You pick a code (put your hand in a box and draw a piece of paper at random). Nobody knows what code you picked except you. If lots of people do this at the same time, it’s impossible to accurately map codes to people’s identity.

You scan the code (like QR code) with your social media app that you use, and it associates the code with your account. Now everybody knows you have a valid code associated to your account, but nobody knows your identity.

(The code could work something like a cryptographic signature, where you can show that you have a valid code without actually revealing the code, so others can’t simply copy it. That’s a technical detail that you need to leave to the programmers to accurately understand.)

also don’t forget unlockable and relockable bootloader and the possibility to install your own OS on it.

Yeah, i think the correct response to planned obsolescence from the side of computer manufacturers is to exclusively buy products from companies who have produced long-living machines in the past.

That gives manufacturers an incentive to make the machines they produce last longer, instead of shorter to sell newer products more frequently.

You can have a 12G text file, logs, suppose, you are going to load the entire file into memory?

That’s actually done via journalctl today, most of the time. Which extracts the logs out from a database instead of a text file. It has some useful features, such as slicing a specific time interval from the logs.

No, I dont want to buy your 2014 1TB drive for 25€ + shipping.

well damn that’s a steal. I’d buy it.

Listen, young kids have to dress appropriately otherwise sickos take advantage of them.

The sexualization of children is bad for a few reasons but I think the top reason is a safety concern.

In my experience, 9/10 times the people wanting to “protect” children by taking away their freedom to self-determination are actually the ones hurting the children the most.

Also as a side note, i would recommend new Linux users to not learn the command line. Do not touch the command line if you’re not sure what you’re doing. Like with a knife, it’s a powerful tool but you can also do a lot of harm with it if you don’t know exactly what you are doing.

Everything that most people need (web browsing, writing emails, watching movies, making presentations) can be done with graphical programs only. You shouldn’t ever need to touch the command line.

exFAT is great for compatibility but it doesn’t have journaling, so if there’s a power outage while writing to a file, you can expect the file to get corrupted and unusable (which sucks). apart from that, yeah, it’s great.

what i can recommend if you’re working in a big organization or group or sth is to use a network drive, i.e. a drive that’s accessed over the network. you typically don’t have problems there.

yeah i can report i’ve dealt with TB-sized external NTFS-formatted disks for years and never had issues with linux with them :)