Ok, here’s proof of what you make me assume you’re referencing as there’s no mention of anything at all, just broad statements. Also, look above, I’ve provided data already while you’ve gone little kid mode getting cranky and just blindly following the nonsensical trajectory of you’re ludicrous and half baked initial statement.

“Facial age estimation tools are notoriously unreliable, particularly for people of color, trans and nonbinary people, and people with disabilities. The internet has now proliferated with stories of people bypassing these facial age estimation tools. But when systems get it wrong, users may be forced into appeals processes or required to submit more documentation, such as government-issued IDs… Even newer approaches (things like age inference, behavior tracking, financial database checks, digital ID systems) expand the web of data collection, and carry their own tradeoffs around access and error.”

Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/discord-voluntarily-pushes-mandatory-age-verification-despite-recent-data-breach

Falls on it’s face lol! You mean a single T left uncrossed, whereas you’ve omitted relevant and quite well known info regarding Discord finally being on the cusp of their IPO after attempting it for more than 10 years.

Nonetheless, this “AI recognition” which somehow destroys my well laid out and supported comment requires an extensive behavior profile to even be an option for each user. Worse yet, it’s proprietary software that’s been shown on multiple occasions to be horrendous with accuracy. These accuracy issues may result in this AI company having your biometric data while also now being forced to upload an ID to get on the platform.

PS: The EU, Australia, and United States population’s combined is 9.9% of the worlds population. But due to 38% of US states and 11% of EU countries with some ID law, plus Australia’s first attempt to keep kids under 16 off social media, you still can somehow validate the global enforcement of laws put forward by the minority population from a group representing less than 10% of the planet?!

You’re either horrendous with math and simple reasoning, being paid by Discord, or a troll that’s real terrible at their job

Which regulations required Discord to default users worldwide as teens and request government ID’s to resort some of the basic functionality if there’s contradicting or limited user data?

Discord has been aiming to have their IPO in Q1 2026 for a while now, which I have to assume you didn’t know. Thinking all this is due to wide spread privacy invasive laws enacted by many countries across the globe and not Discord just attempting to associate verified and specific data to most of their end users is laughable!

Discord has confidentially filed for a US IPO, targeting a Q1 2026: https://web.archive.org/web/20260217002224/https://techfundingnews.com/discord-ipo-q1-25bn-valuation-microsoft-rejection/

This looks a ton like Pidgin from SuperTuxKart! Definitely one of the best characters in the game too

It’s about knowing your audience and phrasing things in a way to increase the likelihood of acceptance. So despite the FDA reviewing and accepting the trial design in April '24 and August '25, plus the trial demonstrating the vaccine to be more effective than the currently available vaccines, I’d bet my last dollar they phrased it like this just for RFK and friends…

I mean really, as a scientist in the general field, we need more review and analysis of mRNA vaccines. While it sucks to say, there is some validity to the concerns surrounding mRNA vaccines as their uptake mechanism needs fine tuning. Subtle errors with administration can lead to myocarditis, as the heart uptakes some and produces the viral proteins on it’s surface. This results in the immune system attacking the heart and boom, myocarditis. So while it’s not the 100% safe molecules requiring mercury to function as intended (drastically different than the hazardous molecular structures with mercury), due to the speed it was pushed through testing, there are still a few things we need to iron out. For mRNA vaccines to work as well as the other fully safe vaccines we’ve used to massively increase our average life span, we need to learn how to alter the nano-lipids and make them more selective to which cells uptake them. While the anti-vaxers see this as a win, it’s impeding the research needed to be able to fix one of the very few things they actually had correct.

You can also establish a user block though too, so if their comments in unblocked communities are making your experience less than ideal, just block that user.

Really? Huh, I have a decent amount of communities blocked and I’ve never seen a single post from anyone of them after implementing the block

I hear that, but the thing is anyone can block whatever/whoever they feel the need to in the fediverse. I truly believe server admins should federate across the board, as it’s a disservice to end users only allowing federation with certain servers based on admin preference.

As far as UI and UX go, Lemmy’s devs are some of the biggest players in the overall fediverse functionality. So while the UI/UX could use some more attention in select areas, being able to interact with the other platforms is a much bigger aspect to the appeal of the fediverse! The Lemmy devs really do deserve a lot more credit for their work, regardless on their opinions or how the they approach discussing them.

FTFY

Piefed provides sections or slices of the fediverse and often is incorporated with mastodon, whereas Lemmy is a much bigger aspect of the overall fediverse. While everyone is entitled to their option how they approach certain topics, Lemmy’s devs have a huge impact on federation protocols, moderation norms, and general user experience across the fediverse!

This is a throwback! Their album “Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo” has got to be their best and it was one of many albums that helped frame my taste in music!!

Here’s the more detailed but “pay-walled” write-up Nature did that was summarized for the article linked in this post: https://archive.ph/4uHyS

At it’s core, Bazzite is Fedora. Nobara is a fork of Fedora with gamers and creatives kept in mind, plus it’s not immutable. So using either just Fedora or Nobara with KDE as the desktop environment will give you the same overall feel and let you dial in your audio. As far as the .NET stuff goes, thats all new to me, but I’d think finding an AppImage or Snap with 10 could be a work around, or just waiting until the Flatpak updates would be the move there.

https://deflock.me/

No worries, we were all new at one point! But to get the open as admin option when right clicking in dolphin, you need to go to the settings tab and select “Configure Dolphin”. A window will popup, and you’ll want to go into the “Context Menu” options. Here, you are able to add/remove the options you see when right clicking. Towards the top of the list there’s an option called “Administrative Actions”. Enable this option and then apply the change. Now when you right click in the mounted VeraCrypt drive you’ll see the ability to Open as Administrator!

In my experience when running into writing or deleting issues, simply right clicking and then selecting open as administrator is the work around. NTFS does not store POSIX permissions, so when VeraCrypt mounts, the kernel can’t tell who should have what access to it. NTFS on Linux is handled by the ntfs‑3g or ntfs3 driver, which maps Windows ACLs to Linux permissions. Without the proper fstab entries, the system falls back to it being a privileged mount. So opening as an administrator is your best bet to add or remove files to the drive.

Add it to the list of things that Honduran cat Trump pardoned did which impacted the US!

SearXNG all day!!

It definitely has an F-Droid repo, here it is: https://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo/index.html