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Cake day: 2023年6月15日
  • psycotica0@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.world•Working to Decentralize FedCMEnglish
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    15 小时前

    OIDC is innately centralized

    Huh, that’s not my understanding. I was there when it first came out, and the whole point was to allow you to use any URI of your choice as an authenticator. Let’s see what the first line of Wikipedia has to say:

    OpenID is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol

    Huh. 🤔

  • psycotica0@lemmy.catoPrivacy@lemmy.world•US state laws push age checks into the operating systemEnglish
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    2 天前

    For sure. If we wanted to protect kids with no intrusion we’d just make an HTTP header that was “user age” and then let the sites decide what to show and what to block. Porn sites don’t want to show dicks to 6 year olds, it’d be 10 seconds to make an nginx rule that says “if user age < 18, show static error page”.

    And that’s it, easy peasy. If we wanted to, at that point we could start suing individual sites that choose not to use that information in order to get compliance, but probably we don’t need to, since it’s pretty easy to support and like I said, there’s no money in showing these things to kids anyway.

    But that’s not what it’s about.

  • psycotica0@lemmy.catoTechTakes@awful.systems•Duolingo is dying celebratory threadEnglish
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    4 天前

    Right, but is it a language learning app? Or is it a “play games with aggressive owl” app with a language learning theme? Because if after 365 straight days of playing games with owl you cannot use the language you’ve been “learning” to communicate, then you aren’t learning a language. And if you’re not learning the language, then what are you doing with the owl?

  • psycotica0@lemmy.catoTechTakes@awful.systems•Duolingo is dying celebratory threadEnglish
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    5 天前

    Right, except OP and the research suggests it’s not effective, even though it feels like you’re doing it. So yes, 10 minutes of walking a day is interior to an hour of HIIT, obviously. And yes 10 minutes of walking a day is better than not walking in a day, for your health. But no matter how many days in a row you slowly walk 10 minutes, you’ll never be able to run a marathon. It just doesn’t do that.

    So if everyone’s goal with Duolingo was to vaguely know some words in a language they can’t communicate in, and it was just a brain exercise like a crossword, then sure. No harm done.

    But that’s not most people’s goal, and what the research shows is that for all the time people spend doing it, they could have spent that time doing something else and actually made progress towards their goals.