There’s no way you’re actually this dumb. Come on. Quit trolling.

Unfortunately, I didn’t have to Google who that is.

For the love of Christ, take it down. Why would you do that to yourself?

Pfft, clearly I was not reading carefully.

Mm, luckily “vanilla beans” aren’t actually beans. I think the people can handle the idea of a two-bean soup much better, don’t you?

We have?

Yeah, obviously it’s a bit different than they imagined, but we do in fact get directions sent to our cars via radio waves (4/5G) and automatically processed by a computer (phone/onboard satnav).

I think the point they’re making is that the satellites send radio signals.

Oh, I didn’t think about the fact that they’re a CA. That’s a good point; thanks for the info.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding what “behind cloudflare” means in this context, but I have a couple of my sites proxied through cloudflare, and they definitely don’t have my keys.

I wouldn’t think using a cloudflare captcha would require such a thing either.

Is there a reason other than avoiding infrastructure centralization not to put a web server behind cloudflare?

A couple decades at least, if things go extremely poorly for them and keep on doing that.

There are; they’re called “stablecoins”.

Even bullshit essays should have a soul.

Dude, relax. There’s no need to feel threatened by people enjoying themselves.

I don’t have any users, just readers, and all seven of them use cli browsers to read it, lol. If I actually gave a shit about people I see less-than-weekly reading my stuff, I’d obviously not have it set up like I do.

To be clear, this is just one of my websites.

To balance it out, I made it so that my web pages fail to load if JavaScript is turned on. Yes, really.

Okay, I guess technically it shows a message that says “Turn off JS, dummy!”, but it’s the same in spirit.

If the cert is not unique to a person, it’s not a viable way of verifying age. Anyone could use one issued to anyone else, and the whole thing is DOA.

So then we have to assume it is uniquely tied to a person. Then, it can be used by the verification service to track a person, building a profile of what websites they visit and when, even what they do there, depending on how the age verification is set up.

Advertisers don’t really care about your name, just about your profile so they can target you with ads, so it gives them everything they want.

A state-issued cert used pervasively across all interactions on the internet and uniquely tied to a particular individual?

Some exec at Google just creamed his pants.

Hey, corn is nutritious.