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  • Super easy. Technology has existed for quite some time and was already used in the encrpytion of web traffic.

    Basically: you sign up with your “age verification institution” (ideally a service of your government because they have your ID anyway and no profit motive). This involves createing a private key (reaaaaaaaaaaly long password that is saved in a file on your device) and saving the public key with that institution. They also check your ID to ensure your identity and your age.

    When you want to visit a 18+ website, the website sends you a nonce (loooooong random number). You take that nonce and send it to the verifier, along with a signature of your private key (and the age they want you verified against). The verifier verifies your signature using your public key. They then sign the nonce with their own private key, thereby verifying, that you, the owner of your private key (whos identity and age they have verified) are above the asked age theshould. You then send the signed nonce back to the 18+ website and they can verifiy the signature to confirm that a trusted age verifier has verified your age.

    The site never has access to your identity and the verifier never knows which site you visited, only that you wanted to visit a website that wants to know if you are of a certain age.

    (The corresponding technology was used for OCSP Stapling in TLS verification … and has been discontinued last year because nobody was using it …)


  • The cosmologies are difficult to compare because “power” in middle earth is just kinda … power. Sauron doesn’t need to have a “chain lightning lvl 10, 100.000 damage per second” ability. He can just … exist, and all the evil (or just lesser willed) creatures around will just fully accept him as their leader and do whatever he says. It a cosmic force or aura that is never quantified in any way. Same with ganfalf. He does very little magic. His power is also mostly in his presence that compels the good guys to do good things.






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    Skyrim has a collectible item that is found in a main story area that is only accessible once. Its a very early mission and in one of the last thief’s guild quests they will tell you to get that item. That might be 200h after you did that main quest …

    Good thing modding exists




  • Infinities don’t care about the actual numbers in the set, but about the cardinality (size). Obviously the numbers between 0,1 and 1,2 are different but have the same size.

    But 0,1 and 0,2? Size is unintuitive for infinities because they are … infinite. So the trick is to look for the simplest mathematical formula that can produce a matching from every number of one set to every number in the second. And as somebody has said, every number in 0,2 can be achieves by multiplying a number in 0,1 by 2. So there is a 1 to 1 relation between 0,1 and 0,2. Ergo they are the same size.


  • I think the “men evil”, “woman good” is just worded to strongly but is generally true (not actually true, but people considered it to be true).

    Its more “men dangerous”, “men threatening” and not “evil”. A man in a women’s bathroom is a threat. A women in a mans bathroom is there because there was a line for the woman’s bathroom. The actual reason for those scenarios does not matter, the man will be seen as an invasion and a perpetrator. I have personally experienced examples of neutral situations as well (going to the woman’s bathroom as a man without negative reactions) but the general discourse about the topic is pretty clear.