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  @neil If I ever needed to implement some kind of verification I'd probably look at using Yivi (https://yivi.app/). Bit limited to NL still I believe, but at least that would allow me to ask "are you over 18" without processing any additional information. It's a cool project, and I'm kinda sad that it's not getting more traction.

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  @neil I also love how there's this really extensive page talking about GDPR obligations (from an LLM, no doubt) but we've just… completely forgotten that article 14 exists?

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  @neil Not in England or Wales, so I won't vote, but… Here in NL we've had so many inactionable alerts and given that I can apparently only turn them on or off, not change the volume/sound or anything, I've got them off now and I rely on the app instead. I don't really need to be woken up just to be told not to call emergency services except in an emergency.

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  When I was 20, I was lucky enough to get my driving license and my first car. I remember how before then I would happily and proudly get anywhere I needed to go with public transport. It wasn't always perfect, but I hardly ever had trouble with it either. Then I got the car and I started using it more and more. And over time, it started to change the way I think. Away from where stations and bus stops were, over to where I could feasibly park and where there would be traffic. Nowaways, I h...

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  @Pepijn @kineticdiplomacy Ik weet niet of dat specifiek een heel goed voorbeeld is. De brandstofprijzen maken nogal een groot deel uit van inflatie en koopkracht, zowel direct als indirect.

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  @Pepijn @kineticdiplomacy Daar heb je gelijk in. Inflatie is wel gestegen, maar zolang de koopkracht stabiel blijft stijgen merk je daar natuurlijk weinig van. Dat mag inderdaad wel meer benadrukt worden.

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  @neil Isn't that just the question of ethical consumption under capitalism again? A lot of these things are choices you make because the alternative is harder / worse somehow. It's infinitely more important to try and make the "better" choices more accessible for everyone than to focus on which choices you make personally.

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  I've had my WinRAR purse for over a year now, and only once did someone recognise what it was before being told, and it was an usher at Beetlejuice the musical.

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  Honestly kind of impressed. Got a phishing message on Thursday pretending to be a login notification from my bank, listing a phone number to call. Looked up the provider and contacted their fraud department. Today, I got a response telling me the phone number was cancelled. They'll probably pop right back up with a new one, but if it saves just one person from getting scammed, it still seems worth it.

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  @neil Slight correction: whether resident or not, the private key is derived from the key material that lives inside the security key (Yubikey). The difference is that with a resident key, the information needed to derive the key is stored in the hardware too. With non-resident, that bit of metadata lives in the private key file. It's not actually a private key in there.

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  Had an IKEA practically next door for years but today is the first time I tried their automated pick up thing. It's excellent. You go there, enter a code and after a while a door opens with your loaded cart on it.