Zelse
@zelse.bsky.social
Nerd, weirdo. Cooking, sci-fi and horror, IT, security, politics, all that fun stuff. (30s. He/Him. Pretty damn gay.)
100%. If it was really about protecting kids, they would be proposing "zero proof" ID verification - like how you go to the store and buy beer. (Instead, you buy a scratch card that has an authorization code; have a valid code? You showed ID to buy it, so are of age.)
First porn, now YouTube, ID checks to access the internet are creeping in.
China & Russia started this way. Now their internet is locked down: no anonymity, no dissent, total surveillance.
We are sleepwalking into total fascism. Don’t buy the “protect the kids” excuse. They want total control.
China & Russia started this way. Now their internet is locked down: no anonymity, no dissent, total surveillance.
We are sleepwalking into total fascism. Don’t buy the “protect the kids” excuse. They want total control.
August 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
100%. If it was really about protecting kids, they would be proposing "zero proof" ID verification - like how you go to the store and buy beer. (Instead, you buy a scratch card that has an authorization code; have a valid code? You showed ID to buy it, so are of age.)
@fatsquirrel.bsky.social Happened across Anguish and your article on getting an old JavaStation to run. With all the awful news lately, it brought a smile to my face. Just wanted to say thanks for sharing!
March 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
@fatsquirrel.bsky.social Happened across Anguish and your article on getting an old JavaStation to run. With all the awful news lately, it brought a smile to my face. Just wanted to say thanks for sharing!
And now to very carefully avoid the news until the thing's decided, or, more likely, until either the more authoritarian nutjob has won OR has lost and begun shouting the quiet part rather than simply saying it at normal volume. (The quiet part hasn't been quiet for quite some time.)
November 5, 2024 at 8:57 AM
And now to very carefully avoid the news until the thing's decided, or, more likely, until either the more authoritarian nutjob has won OR has lost and begun shouting the quiet part rather than simply saying it at normal volume. (The quiet part hasn't been quiet for quite some time.)
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Really enjoying The Serial Port's ongoing series on setting up a dial-up ISP. Informative and entertaining. Plus, it's been fun to learn that the way I naively assumed dial-up ISPs worked as a child is actually fairly close to the reality.
Epic Terminal Server Showdown! - ISP Series Episode 4
How do you connect dozens of modems to your 90s ISP? We embark on a mission to find out by comprehensively evaluating terminal servers in this epic two-part ...
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October 15, 2023 at 2:02 AM
Really enjoying The Serial Port's ongoing series on setting up a dial-up ISP. Informative and entertaining. Plus, it's been fun to learn that the way I naively assumed dial-up ISPs worked as a child is actually fairly close to the reality.