I created a symlink to the directory the symlink is in. If I try and simply ‘delete’ the symlink in a file browser it tells me that gigs of data will be deleted

That beginners guide says to avoid creating circular symlinks. What if, entirely hypothetically, I already have a circular symlink?

I wasn’t thinking in detail, just addressing an assumption I think a lot of age verification discussions include, which is that the verifier would have to be trusted to maintain some sort of account for you, retaining your data etc.

I have no idea what the legislation says, but I’d be a happier privacy-conscious user if the verification platforms were independent (i.e. not in any other data business) and regulated, with a requirement they don’t retain my personal data at all (like the liquor store example)

So the verifier gathers data from you, matches it with a request from the platform, provides confirmation that some standard has been met, and deletes almost all personal information - I acknowledge that this may not rise to the double-blind standard of the original request

Edited to add:

• you don’t have to ‘buy’ a token, the platform needs to pay verifiers as a cost of business

• some other comments are asking how you prevent the verifier knowing the platform - to my mind you don’t, instead the verifier retains a request id record from the platform, but forgets entirely who you are

A joke answer, but with the kernel of truth - IRL age verification often requires a trusted verifier (working under threat of substantial penalty) but often doesn’t require that verifier to maintain any documentation on individual verification actions

https://chinwag.au/verification/

aBundleOfFerrets Says Humans Will Reach the Singularity Within 3 Years

Thanks. I just got a couple of cheap chinese ESP32s and was going to start with some Arduino IDE programming, but I’ll have a look at esphome too

Did you follow a guide?

Thanks, I was more worried that there was something completely wrong security-wise with that approach!

Genuine question from someone with a single page static site - why is Cloudflare a useless suggestion?

1. On-prem
2. Self-hosting

And I’ll argue it’s on-prem even if you don’t have the physical server in your building

https://archive.md/XO1Js

“Well, see you Monday!”

It tells you right there in the log: “DRDY”

I think the JST and Molex recommendations are on point, in case you’re after another option I use Tamiya connectors for 12v car chargers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamiya_connector

If it is powered on but blank screen, you can try terminating the user session from a terminal

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-terminate-user-session-in-linux/

C’mon, steal the noise…

Not sure about multiplayer, but there are launchers like PollyMC that can be used to play Minecraft on Linux without an account

The second half of this article is specifically about the FX-8350 and Hogwarts Legacy performance in case you’re interested

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/k6-fx-8350-revisited-2023-compared-to-modern-ryzens-games

A May 19, 2019, payment from Taylor had a memo, “head number 7,” and a Nov. 20, 2020, transaction was for “braiiiiiins.”

Lol I just make sure they’re formatted as ISO dates or timestamps and store them as text, you can do good enough date operations on them