red_trumpet's comments

On: Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

[red_trumpet]

This is not only theoretical, the German ID card ("elektronischer Personalausweis") can do exactly this.

On: Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

[red_trumpet]

> a service is able to verify that a user is above an appropriate age threshold, while maintaining privacy safeguards

AFAIU, the German electronic ID card ("elektronischer Personalausweis") can do this, but it is not widely implemented, and of course geographically limited.

On: Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant

[red_trumpet]

The app is still available, but to use all features you have to pay a couple of Euros: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.dwd.warnapp...

On: Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room

[red_trumpet]

You can definitely disable the "swipe left" thing on the launcher.

[oefnak → red_trumpet]

Yea, but you can't make it a home screen like when you swipe right.

On: We're Still Not Done with Jesus

[red_trumpet]

> Obviously Christians believe otherwise.

Depends on the Christians. My Catholic school teachers in Germany taught us what you write.

[michaelsbradley → red_trumpet]

Depends on the Catholics, too. Some who profess the Catholic Faith, educators and non-educators alike, find it scandalous that staff at a Catholic school teach their pupils such ideas. Others find it amusing, at best, that Catholic teachers impart any ideas re: Scripture that don't line up with areligious academic commentary.

On: Asahi Lina: I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or Linux graphics

[red_trumpet]

From her own reply[1]:

> If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don't. Please don't make assumptions. Thank you.

On: Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet

[red_trumpet]

> (check France if you don't believe it works)

France's nuclear provider has incredibly high debts, which is only possibly because they are state backed. So no, nuclear energy does not work economically.

[simplysublime → red_trumpet]

Respectfully, who cares? Humanity needs electricity, and "cost" is an entirely made-up thing. "Sorry, it was too expensive to save civilization" is going to be the most obnoxious epitaph for Homo sapiens...

On: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order

[red_trumpet]

> independent judges

Judges are independent in Germany. Prosecutors are not.

> Because of this international warrants which come from Germany do not get followed since they can’t be trusted.

I think you mean the European Arrest Warrant[1], and you are right that it is not accepted when issued by German prosecuters, because they are not indepepndent[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Arrest_Warrant [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europ%C3%A4ischer_Haftbefehl#D... [2]

[spacechild1 → red_trumpet]

> Judges are independent in Germany. Prosecutors are not.

Exactly! It's the same in Austria btw. See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richter_(Deutschland)#Dienstau... and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatsanwaltschaft_(Deutschlan...

On: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

[red_trumpet]

You can actually post links of the form https://signal.me/asdf. But https://signal.me/#asdf is blocked. That supports you point of view, I guess?

[M4v3R → red_trumpet]

If you can post links in the form of signal.me/asdf then yes, this reinforces my point that they've probably automatically flagged the top-level domain because of how these /#me links are constructed by Signal.

[thefreeman → red_trumpet]

Or they just did a poor job of implementing the block on signal links

On: Chrome does not have any way to stop video auto play?

[red_trumpet]

It would be nice to read the title and look at the thumbnail to get an impression before blasting "never gonna give you up" through my speakers.