There is some confusion here. Large platforms do need to filter their content according to age and do it all the time. Governments have rules for that as well that apply to large sites, nothing of what I've said is novelty. It already is in practice and parents keep having a large role in following what their children do. The topic here was the age verification itself and how this is being abused.

First things first: This kind of age verification should only be applicable to large mainstream websites/services. Because tiny ones won't have the people nor money to perform real age verifications, lest alone can be trusted to keep any private data in security (not even big ones for that matter, but at least we can fine those). The second part is that exist ZERO reasons for any of those websites getting hold of your private data. What is requested is the age range. Meaning for example to be above 15 years. For a healthy and sane tech solution to happen: local governments and trusted organizations inside those countries (e.g. post offices) can identify themselves as such and testify that a given user is indeed above the requested age level without need to provide anything from the user itself. This means no name, no pictures, no ID documents given to foreign sites. And you ask yourself, why the government? In an ideal world the government doesn't really need to know either where you login or where you keep your accounts. It is technically feasible for either parties to sign a file where this age verification is assured by the government without needing to know to where it was asked. And I don't mean large governments, I mean doing this on the town hall level or post office across your street which can identify themselves as trustworthy verifiers. Technically this is easy, possible, even doable digitally on the countries where this deeper age verification is really required. But this is not the ideal world. Both the megacorp has interest to snatch your government issued ID details, as much as governments are curious to know which usernames you use on which websites. Those are my two cents on the topic and this is exactly how it is going to be implemented on geogram where the jurisdictions forces such controls in place.

The real world is not binary. In fact, not even the digital world is binary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer Valid reasons exist for verifying the user age and only provide access/services to humans above a given age, and at same time this can be done without revealing my children details to some megacorp that will store those details forever (privacy). When you are facing two bad choices you must start by questioning why the heck there are only two choices in the first place. That is the first step you take outside those manipulation techniques for the masses.

Should have been there already. Zero reasons to keep supporting a spy boomer coin. Thumbs up for cashu+monero.

Aliexpress: https://aliexpress.com/item/1005009475909411.html Keep the article as "favorite" in your account but don't add it to the cart immediately, visit it a few times. After that the algorithm will noticed you are interested but not moving forward and should drop 30% on the price to convince you. If you buy 4 right now for 4.39 EUR each then it gives 17.56 EUR summed, they give you an immediate discount of 2 EUR and you pay 15.56 EUR in total. A price of 3.89 EUR per unit with antenna. These things are really price worthy to connect a small village and then someone be the main station with a starlink and/or radio to other locations.

From the article, it might indeed boost range. Before doing modifcations, can I ask to test the range outdoors between of them in mesh? The ones I got were with external antenna already available, their range was about 900 meters with Line Of Sight (LoS) and a clear day, but installing on the street would say about 300 meters between them with LoS for a good quality connection. The cost was about 3.5 euros per unit.

Those are good options. Keep on the good effort.

Well.. he might be writing this stuff right now to get some credibility and later go back to promote fedcoins again. Let's see.

Why would you use that boomer coin that has no privacy and lets governments rape you with taxes or consequences when using that money for things they don't like? Look at the IRS chasing the boomer hodlers and Canada catching those who donated to the truck protest. That's why we use monero. Only gov shills or naive people can afford to make boomer payments without privacy. The rest of us don't want to be chased for donating into what we support.

Of course, normal users wouldn't even know what is git. That is why many of the apps inside geogram are only installable when the user looks for them. Anyways, it is long down on the priorities. First geogram needs to be usable and reliable on what it already does today. Never had to support so many platforms at the same time. Much more effort to get things right but really happy when there are little limitations and can be launched from just about everywhere.

You ain't talking to the money goes up crowd which gets desperate when something goes down without doing anything to give it value in the first place (speculation). Monero is just a currency, a way to pay stuff. The real money maker at our reach are properties in the world.

Why insist on boomer fedcoins. Monero solved crypto for the real world.

You're a bot, aren't you?

That is a false statement. Not my fault you choose to live without access to information networks of people to see it being well used.

It a concern when you are a father with children. You basically care for them not to approached by predators pretending to be kids.

For buying a coffee or groceries, small purchases. Those are always worth to convert. For higher values you would just transfer monero to the other person. This would have been obvious to you if ever using crypto for real-world purchases.

Same with foreign currencies. To pay things locally, either the business is ready for them or you swap to local fiat. That is NOT a reason to throw away the user privacy.

I've mined BTC back in 2009, I've kept trying and advancing the knowledge. It pains my heart to see so many good people without understanding the flaws behind that outdated coin. You won't understand how privacy was essential to you until some years from now. Monero does what Bitcoin should have been doing since a decade ago. Don't stop at just those two. Take a look at other projects like BEAM, which is also private and adds tokenization. You are honestly missing out on what makes crypto, a real crypto.

Being dependant on GitHub to build production code isn't something that leaves me comfortable. Not a high-priority for the next months, was looking into libraries for self-hosting git repositories and build the binaries locally without depending on the good will from Microsoft. Basically enable people to walk around with their own code repos. The advantage is that repos on GitHub can mirror these ones, but in case of collapse then the phone repos would continue reachable to developers without breaking their toolchains. Pretty robust in the end.