I didn’t recognize the DKK acronym and thought it was a cryptocurrency for a second.

His crypto scheme was already raising eyebrows. When OpenAI board attempted a coup and he clawed back to his seat, it seemed like he had gained complete control over the place.

So we’ll have to say GNU/Linux/SystemD soon?

(Eat (soil and leaves)) vs (Eat soil) and (leaves)?

It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.

Similar here. I have switched to xfce after struggling with gnome and kde.

It can become really messy if one family member deletes a picture by accident and everyone complains. I’d use Syncthing for machines I personally manage.

And then there’s .net classic and .net core. Making up two entirely separate names shouldn’t be difficult for marketing executives.

Not even the big instances like LemmyWorld or Beehaw would be safe. Even more for self hosted instances.

Precisely. The national ID number itself was easily to spoof using a simple formula, but the difficult part was actual the “adult” verification, which I presume it was done by consulting a government database with actual citizen info. It was very easy to leak, and it did leak a lot.

There are countries like S Korea that used to demand new users national ID at signup (not anymore thankfully) and many websites, especially at the early 2000s, had your real name featured next to your nickname (following the tradition from their own national dial-up BBS forums). The argument was that revealing your real identity would make internet interaction more “civil”.

Guess what happened. Identity theft was rampant, trolling was equally widespread, you think Facebook spearheaded mixing real name profiles and internet sewagery, you haven’t seen anything like CyWorld from early 2000s.

The cases of identity theft ranged from minors borrowing their dads and uncles ID to actual Chinese hackers dumping massive records from the same Korean companies gathering them because of that stupid law. This was done so they could… access forums that demanded a valid national ID from a 18+ years old citizen, for example.

I was there, man. You’d find out your typical forum shitposter (that had surprisingly “ample” tastes) with a profile that says “46 y.o. male (ID verified)” is revealed as an elementary school kid using their uncles ID and gets banhammer’d. Monthly.

Not China, but you know the rest… like that Laotian character from King of the Hills who gets asked “So you’re from China or Japan?” everytime.

That’s true. They must have gained access to the phone itself somehow.

When I was told to get lost and go back to China because the pandemic reliefs were for the fellow countrymen.

Perhaps they simply took out the sim card and inserted into another phone, giving them access to contacts (that could have been saved into the chip instead of the original phone)?

iddqd was a well known cheat code from the era, not exactly obscure if not contemporary.

And to think, the Q shit started on these sites.

Are the customers polite most of the time? Any nasty encounters? (Blaming for defects, running away without paying)

Whoever is behind USB version naming schemes, please take notice.

What about XFCE users?