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[-] upto60percentoff@kbin.run 201 points 4 months ago

A distributed pseudonymous ledger for use by a centralised authority that will hold sensitive, personal information.

I think the paper was right.

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 86 points 4 months ago
[-] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 31 points 4 months ago

España creó un pasaporte blockchain para ver por alguna razón, porque supongo que los tiddies ponen nerviosas a algunas personas.

Source: Sé dónde está la biblioteca.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 months ago
[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

This could be the right time to use an interrobang.

[-] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago

interrobang.

I know it's a real thing, but I still think of a sexy FBI agent every time I see "interrobang"

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[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

me llamo t-bone la arana discoteca

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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Is it Blockchain based though?

It is a shitty porn passport, I'm Spanish, but I didn't hear that it was Blockchain based.

Why? It needs a centrar register not an uncentralized one.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I was just looking through some documentation on it. It says it uses a "digital wallet". Maybe people are seeing that and thinking that means it's blockchain-based? I'm not seeing anything more solid claiming there's any blockchain involved, though. (I'm not 100% certain there isn't any blockchain involved, though.)

It's BS either way. Extra super plus plus BS if it's blockchain-based. But still BS even if there's no blockchain involved.

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[-] iso@lemy.lol 43 points 4 months ago

Do they need blockchain for it though?

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 64 points 4 months ago

No. This won't work any better, either. Keeping anonymous porn off the internet is like trying to prevent kids from fooling around with sex by not telling them about sex.

Unless you're removing their genitals, they're GOING to figure it out. The situation only gets worse with more ignorance and more control.

[-] far_university1990@feddit.de 11 points 4 months ago

Children almost infinite free time, creative mind and bored. They will find what they want to find.

Then tell them to not do X, they gonna put ALL their energy to do X. Cannot stop them, only work with them.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Just tell them not to do Y then, problem solved.

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[-] mormund@feddit.org 42 points 4 months ago
[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 71 points 4 months ago

bit of a futile endeavour tbh, if a kid with access to the Internet wants to see porn, they're going to find porn. And if they don't have access to the basic sources they'll probably find a more dodgy, unmoderated, and possibly extreme porn than if their curiosity got sated by pornhub or something

[-] mormund@feddit.org 39 points 4 months ago

Agreed. Even going back to sharing stuff via Whatsapp or something like that, they are going to evade control for sure. But when will society be ready to just be honest with kids about what exists and teach them how to safely explore that and give them context? I guess we'd rather have dystopian control than that

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I'm not sure why so many adults try so desperately to forget what they were like as kids and teenagers. Rather than stop their biological urges, curb them or direct them towards safe release. Letting them figure it out on their own, and how else can they if you don't actually teach them, is a recipe for disaster.

Two of the best ways to reduce teen pregnancy are sex education and easy access to contraceptives.

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[-] acastcandream@beehaw.org 17 points 4 months ago

VPN interest mysteriously surges in Spain

[-] mormund@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago

It is also mentioned that the rules could get superseded by EU law requiring identification as well. And with the US doing stupid stuff as well you might run out of VPN locations in the future

[-] acastcandream@beehaw.org 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah unfortunately it has crossed my mind. Good news is groups like Mullvad and Proton are pretty good about spreading their servers across the world under various jurisdictions so the whack a mole game should go on for quite some time, and I don’t think any country is going to make VPNs illegal anytime soon

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 8 points 4 months ago

I don’t think any country is going to make VPNs illegal anytime soon

They'll just make them illegal for anyone other than a corporation

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[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

The Blockchain is amazingly useful, that's why the establishment did their best to make sure people associate with incels and little monkey pictures to ruin its credibility. A banking system running on Blockchain is one where the Pentagon can't lose trillions of dollars annually.

[-] miridius@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

A banking system running on Blockchain

Is an astronomically terrible idea. It:

  • would use as much electricity as an entire country
  • payments/transfers would be both much slower AND much more expensive than via a bank
  • would have no protection against fraud. You got scammed? Your money's gone. You paid for something online and it never arrived? Too bad
  • would have no way to stop money laundering
  • would have no way to help people who forgot their password, they'd just lose their life savings permanently
  • would tie up a bunch of capital, preventing reinvestment and growth. There would be no way to get a bank loan to buy a house for example
  • the list goes on
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[-] match@pawb.social 12 points 4 months ago

make sure people associate with incels and little monkey pictures to ruin its credibility

yall 100% did that to yourselves

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[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 26 points 4 months ago

Guy who wrote a paper about Blockchain doesn't know the difference between a "digital wallet" and Blockchain...

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[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 20 points 4 months ago

Why would anyone chain their porn?
Cockchains are not for that. Not really for anything, but not for that too.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 months ago

What about all the games where you can shoot people? Why is that okay for kids, but a little tit here and there will destroy their view of the world?

Didn't these things get their starts by sucking on tits? So why hide them now?

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago

There is this famous spanish porn actor. Nacho vidal, who says that we would have a better world is kids would play around with plastic dildos instead of plastic guns.

I don't know the playing with plastic dildos, but it is true how wild is the normalization of giving kids a replica of a human killing instrument to play with.

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[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

I love it when people define porn as "just some titties", and ignore all the violent hardcore shit that's defining a generation of men who don't understand sex or women.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And you think the solution to that is to force me to use a government porn tracking service?

How about you be responsible for your kids, and I'll be responsible for mine. I do not care what your kids do on the internet.

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[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 months ago

Let's pair it with proper sex ed. Destigmatise sex work, break the taboos, but also teach people what is and isn't okay or healthy, how arousal works for different sexes and why their dick isn't God's gift to womankind.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 15 points 4 months ago

One of the things blockchain could do is become a digital proof of ownership, augmenting or replacing things like property deeds and car titles. We already agree that a written record of ownership of such things is legally binding (even if the writing is stored digitally), but transfer of that ownership to another person is still a very manual process. Imagine an NFT that represents ownership of your house, and when you want to sell your house, you transfer that NFT to someone else's custody - adding their ownership information to it. It would record the entire chain of ownership, and specific details about the piece of property involved.

[-] words_number@programming.dev 19 points 4 months ago

Without law enforcement, which is centralized anyway, your documented ownership is worthless. So if the state or a similar centralized real life organization, whiches existence people agree on, is needed to grant and enforce that ownership, blockchain is unnecessary. They can instead just store that shit in a database.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

And who would the largest nodes on that blockchain be? The banks? Who could say and do whatever they conspired since they command >50% of the computing power and/or value?

The average person isn’t going to build a fucking blockchain node just to keep the deed to their house.

“Grandma, please you need to fill your basement with these ASICs or else script kiddies will steal your house”

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[-] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can downvote this because you're mad that blockchain exists, for those who don't know the actual real life use case: Bitcoin has been around for 15 years, it is a blockchain. It has a real life use case.

I can send money, with my android phone, from my couch, in my underwear, to anybody else on planet earth who also has a phone and a halfway reliable internet connection. The transaction is not only sent, but actually settles, in under a second with Bitcoin lightning. And I pay pennies in fees. No going to the bank, no bank holidays, no paying wire fees or making sure their bank can talk to my bank. It's just simple and instant and it works. It doesn't matter if they are a dissident or if their country doesn't allow women to own bank accounts, the transaction goes through anyways. In many countries, their app can also instantly convert that BTC into the currency of their choice and deposit it to their bank account. That's assuming they have access to stable banking infrastructure, which billions of people do not.

Bitcoin has delivered on its promise of being a currency with a capped supply (21 million coins) and transaction system consistently for 15 years without a single hack, without a single hour of downtime, without a single hiccup. It just works.

You can argue that Bitcoin isn't better than . You can argue that there are "better" solutions. But it has a clear use case. I use it on a daily basis and it has a fifteen year trend of continued growth whether you are looking at total market cap (bigger than Sweden's GDP), number of nodes, number of transactions, whatever.

Most everything negative you've heard about Bitcoin is either hyperbolic or about other crypto. FTX wasn't Bitcoin. Crypto coins collapsing or people being rugged? Not Bitcoin. For more information, FAQs, and myth-busting, check out http://bitcoin.rocks

[-] Deflaktor@beehaw.org 15 points 4 months ago

Not even sure why I'm bothering replying to this bot, but guess misinformation should not be left alone

  • It's not instant it takes a long time until enough confirmations have been done. It's not even clear how many confirmations are enough.
  • It's only instant if you use the lightning network. Lightning network is literally a traditional bank transaction mechanism on top of bitcoin. If you are arguing for using lightning transactions, what is the point of bitcoin in the first place?
  • fees are huge and will only increase in the future.
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[-] khorak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

The last time I had to send 30 Euro to someone, I had to pay 5 Euro for gas fees. It used to be even worse. Your statements are bullshit, we all know what the usual use cases are (other than speculation)

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[-] LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

Oh no Spain has an "innovative" idea to fuck the internet!

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I wonder how many sites will bother checking for Spanish pornpasses. Seems they're just playing people and waiting for the inevitable, "Turns out the Internet isn't respecting our kids, we need to ratchet up the control. We tried to give you a good deal though, right?"

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[-] acastcandream@beehaw.org 9 points 4 months ago

One of those memes where an article or something is needed for context lol

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