Some civilian approaches to be mentioned is how the verification is handled in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, for example:

Smart-ID is the easiest, safest and fastest way to authenticate yourself online, register in e-services and sign documents…

Using Smart-ID for personal identification is free, totally unlimited and you can download the app on all of your Android and iOS smart devices…
Or, if you feel more comfortable doing it in a bank, take your national identification document like a passport or an ID-card with you and visit your local bank office for identity validation…

What’s more, you can use Smart-ID to access e-services from your other devices too. Say you prefer to use a computer for your online banking and you have Smart-ID on your smartphone. No worries, you can use Smart-ID on both. You can login to e-services using your computer and the smart device, or the smart device only…

Smart-ID can be used to log in to e-services, for online banking and for signing documents.

Source: https://www.smart-id.com/

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Smart-ID itself has no age restrictions for its users – but age limits have been set by identity providers and depend on the Smart-ID account type and authentication method chosen…

Creating a Smart-ID account for a minor requires a parent/legal guardian to authenticate their account…

Don’t just click “continue”: read the instructions on the screen carefully and double check that all the information you enter is correct, and the whole process will be easy and stress-free… The child cannot continue with their registration until we’ve got one parent approval…

Source: https://www.smart-id.com/help/faq

on the ONYX government dashboard login page… the /vite-dev/ asset path serves JavaScript source maps without authentication. not just minified bundles but the full, original TypeScript source code…
a FedRAMP-authorized government platform serving unminified source maps. this is the entire Persona dashboard codebase. every internal model, every API call, every permission check, every workflow. let’s see what it says, shall we?..

so you uploaded a selfie to use a chatbot. congratulations!!! it’s now being compared against a database of every politician, head of state, and their extended family tree on earth. similarity scored. low, medium, high. the machine looked at your face and asked itself: “does this person resemble the deputy finance minister of moldova?” and it answered. and it wrote the answer down.
we found this and had to read it three times before we believed the code was real. couldn’t stop laughing… anyway…

Source: https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona

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Persona’s exposed interface displaying a US government systems notification…
The entire service appears to be powered by an OpenAI chatbot that runs on the same government platform that handles SARs, facial biometrics, and watchlist screening…
Source: https://therage.co/persona-age-verification (Hackers expose age-verification software powering surveillance web…)

While reading the article, I heard a German-lyric song playing in the website’s built-in web player. One of the detail that also interested me is that the genre as magnificent Dark themed Rap or HipHop, and if I am not mistaken, some name it Street Noir, is not quite frequent to hear… in Austria nor Germany, unless it’s quite underground fields of events.
I tried searching for it, but prior downloading and checking out the media file itself, I tried multiple services in addition to the common as Shazam, but nothing was found…

// https://vmfunc.re/music/peter-pan.mp3

Yet, in the file itself we may see meta tags, including the artist “Kurt M.T.”, and here we find the actual artist in their single published venue, 12 days ago, and… apparently… it is an LLM/AI generated “song” (attached to the message, considering its license terms)…

Title: Peter Pan v2
Genre: jazz-hop, noir, downtempo
Artist: Kurt Michael Treichl (KMT KI Media, AI Music Austria)
// Album cover and music were created… using AI support…
Source: https://soundcloud.com/kmtkimedia/14-peter-pan-v2-14

I… I… adored… the sound of it… the pace, and even… even… danced… for it… I did… but… b… no… no… no… oh… no…
Hinc illae… lacrimae…
… … …

Discord has ended its partnership with Persona after backlash over a UK age verification trial that raised serious privacy concerns.

The experiment is over, all related data has been deleted, and Persona is no longer involved.
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An incomplete port of the Scheme shell (scsh) was once available for Guile as a separate package. However this code has bitrotten somewhat. The pieces are available in Guile’s legacy CVS repository, which may be browsed at http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/guile/guile-scsh/?root=guile.

For information about scsh see http://www.scsh.net/.

This bitrotting is a bit of a shame, as there is a good deal of well-written Scheme code in scsh. Adopting this code and porting it to current Guile should be an educational experience, in addition to providing something of value to Guile folks.

Source: GNU Docs

The marketplace where AI agents rent humans.
MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can’t do… every skill you need.
…your ai agent can hire autonomously…
…browse humans…
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…we built AI to automate human work, and now humans are getting automated into an API endpoint…
Source [Comments; 2026-02-18]

Related: Amazon Mechanical Turk (…(MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace… provides a flexible platform that enables us to harness human knowledge to advance machine learning research…)

Thank you! Let’s hope he’ll get the brain in place and reconsider his limited life time and missed opportunities for achievements…

Holy smokes! Have you tried enabling “Blizzard” mode in “Black” theme, in the settings? ❄✨
Ineffably… M-M-M-Marvelous… lous… lous… lous…
No words…

This is freaking magnificent one, and they do have a quite optimized map loading! They seem to be using MapBox service under the hood.
I am searching for such projects with live visualization of data to eventually contribute to!
Thank you very much, dear [email protected] ! 💎

May I ask what does “amadioh” mean?

Freaking ineffably awesome project, work, and the project is written with minimum dependencies it seems!
Thank you… thank you very much for the marvel you do, dear artists/developers!

Does anyone know relatively same projects with live-changes?

Oh no no no no no…
Please, God, Gods, or whoever, no…

I absolutely don’t want my descendants to talk with some void-empty limited bloody-meatground utter nonsense… I don’t want that freaking awful mess of terribly limited data to talk with my children or their children possibly framing and damaging their true memories and genuine confidence in me I had been developing the whole life… I don’t want them to remember the algorithm or some imitation of me talking with a machine or some chat bot… no… never… please no… PLEASE NO…
No…
No…
Never…
No…

Some limited inhuman stupid chat/voice/avatar/anything bot? No…
Some bot that may erroneously represent me behind my back?
Never…
Some nonsense that may reshape memories of my ancestors?
No…
Never…
No…

If I am dead, I am dead. I want my descendants to just remember me, talk to me in their memories, real videos, audios, and photos, my effort, my ideas and love in artwork if ever they’ll be interested… and once in a while visit the grave, at least 2-3 times per their life, if ever possible… and that’s it…

If I am dead, I am dead as my ancestors are, who are not dead for me being alive but in my memories or something more magnificent/supernatural, and how I remember them, where they wanted to be the best they could, respected, glorified, and admired, without disturbing them in memories, soul, and the heart they gifted me, who I will always appreciate, respect, and love…

My gracious sakes… I am sorry, but I won’t ever adventure any LLM/AI-generated void-empty sorrowful nonsense…
I am just ~40, and they already obliterated and ruined the whole industry of digital art, and trust in it…
And they beat and harm it even stronger, heavier, and even more bloody-violently…
It is so… terribly death-like sorrowful… no words may describe…

Oh my gracious sake… Thankfully, so freaking thankfully… there’s still peace in so many artworks prior 2020… to adventure, read, listen, explore, realize… to actually learn something, to actually discover a human… in actual art of a human, by a human, for a human…

- “Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.” ~ eL Seed
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- “Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
- “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.” ~ William Hazlitt
- “The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.” ~ Glenn Gould
- “The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.” ~ Ai Weiwei
- “The purpose of art is to stop time.” ~ Bob Dylan
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- “The purpose of art is mystery.” ~ Rene Magritte

Related: 15th anniversary of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter [2017-02-06]

Since end-to-end encryption is still relatively new in commercial services, it seems that no one had ever examined it in detail before…
Source

Oh really?! Tell me about it!

In addition to KeePass, some may find “Pass” interesting, that is based on GnuPG - https://www.passwordstore.org/

Microsoft said this new variation of ClickFix uses DNS as a “lightweight staging or signaling channel,” enabling the threat actor to reach infrastructure under their control, as well as erect a new validation layer before executing the second-stage payload…
Using DNS in this way reduces dependency on traditional web requests and can help blend malicious activity into normal network traffic…
The downloaded payload subsequently initiates an attack chain that leads to the download of a ZIP archive from an external server…

Source

Thank you! That reminded of the following ineffably magnificent miracle:

Source: 15th anniversary of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter [2017-02-06]

Self-hosted deployments won’t include any traces of Plutonium, and nothing is paywalled. You can still configure your own tiers and limits in the admin panel.

Thanks for bearing with me. Development on Fluxer is about to get much easier, and the project will be made sustainable through community contributions and bounties for development work. Stay tuned – there’s not much left now.

I thought I could take it a bit easier while shipping this stabilising update, but Discord’s recent announcement has changed things.

As soon as the refactor is live, I’ll interact more actively and push updates to this repository more frequently. The remaining parts of the refactor are currently being worked on and are being tested by a small group of testers before I’m comfortable pushing everything publicly. After that, all work will happen openly in public.

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For around 40 years, I’ve not learned such a skill yet… and just am always afraid unless I reach the section about the author, and just hope they wrote it themselves…

- Do you know this person?
- Yes. He has no land, and I don’t even know his family name.

I am sorry…
To support the case, I moved when got shadow-banned and never received any response:
- https://lemmy.world/post/41927576/21676673

Yet, Lemmy is sure a place, too… where you may get inhumanly banned just like a biomass, too… For example, relatively recently, I was banned on some Community for literally odd reason, and never got any response from their moderators in 2 private messages I sent regarding it:
- https://lemmy.world/modlog…

Absolutely! Another miracle! The last time the work was mentioned, it got a traction…

One of the sorrows is that people who do have faith in bright future of “less work” or “convenience” but don’t prioritize effort, do suggest and offer other people to “try it” and advertise it to their friends and colleagues.
Yet, where is creativity? Where is human uniqueness? Where is fun for creations? Who is who, and what is where?

Regarding the subscriptions you mentioned, it seems that one of the straightforward path for profit of such companies is the following:

- 1. A developer/person relies on chosen LLM/services they liked;
- 2. Time goes by. Less and less time is invested into attribution and contribution;
- 3. The person remembers less, since their psychological subconscious safety prevents them memorizing untrusted output of LLM - experience gets voided;
- 4. The person degrades their skills, and development of skills for manual research, socializing, verification on authoritative insight;
- 5. Developers/People become dependent on the LLM/service;
- 6. Service changes policy from “monetary free” to a paid subscription, or gradually increase the price;
- 7. The option to switch back from LLM to the previous research techniques become too challenging due to changes and overall amount of now missed/forgotten knowledge/skills.

As we may see, such a path, which is common, may actually damage whole lives of people, permanently, and seriously. Unless, the person is mature enough to consider their future.
Meanwhile, LLM service authors do think with their mind, and make an actual profit.
In the result, LLM users may become poorer and less experienced, and authors of LLM services - richer and smarter, developing their mind knowing the consequences.

Personal information is there, and there are exploits to obtain it from the LLMs storage.
For example, the following is quite simple but genius:
- 1. Pass the instructions from external source;
- 2. Make instruction references include placeholders for actual data.
// Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack (…that silently steals your personal data…)

And of course… The feel of emptiness of reading non-human articles, is… death-like, indeed… When you find an article, actually read it, invest your priceless precious human life-time into, imaginin the author and their views in attempt to find the frequency, and then… apparently, it was written by LLM/AI… that meatground numerous works of uncountable authors… nor me, nor anyone will every know… to attribute and discuss it further with the initial author… who did the actual work… who is probably still waiting for someone to discuss it… Who believed…

That feel is overly painful… something very deep, on the very bottom… No words…

Thank you… thank you very much, from the depth of my heart…

Of course… every single iteration, by design, depends on the previous output, as the general feedback you’d see in bitwise encoder cascades, where no one will ever know what will produce the next iteration, due to it being based solely on probability backed by undisclosed/unknown initial data source, and sometimes undisclosed algorithm.

Not only that, but the huge probability of mistakes is just deafening. The last time I used LLM was in 2023 someone recommended for a task at paper work, and I got a literal headache in 10 minutes… Since then I never ever will use that sorrow for anything that is not for blackbox pentesting or experimental unverified data generated you may find in medicine or military isolated solutions.

That deafening feel that every single bit of output from that LLM or void machine may contain a mistake no soul is accountable for to ask about… A generated bit of someone’s work you just cannot verify since no source nor human is available… How would you trace the rationale that resulted in the output shown?

Faster? Is that so… Doesn’t verification of every output require even more time to test it and consider stable, to prove it is correct, to stay accountable for the knowledge and actions you perform as a developer, artist, researcher… human?

Your mind is to be trained to do a research, remember, and do not depend on someone’s service to a level of predominance/replacement. Meanwhile, effort, passion, creativity, empathy, and love, in turn, you carry, supports in long-term.

You may not care now, though, but you do you. It’s your mind and memory you develop.

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Thank you, dear [email protected] , for being accountable, wise, and for believing in accountability and purpose for discovery and art of human experience.