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Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by rezonant »

Larrikin wrote: post #66
john_strinlai wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the last time the website was submitted, over half the comments talked about website design instead of the actual content. we can probably skip doing it again. different people have different tastes. people complain about boring websites, people complain about websites with animations or colors. the only guarantee is that the conversation isnt interesting. if you are on the side that doesnt like music, animations, wh…

The layout and design is a matter of taste. I actually find websites like OP refreshing to see. Blasting music or sound on auto play when you aren't directly navigating to audio or video content is just rude. It's the same as playing your speaker on the subway.

This is my problem with it. Put in a mute button if you're going to do this, otherwise it's just user hostile. No problem with stylized websites and fun animations.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by SpaceManNabs »

bsza wrote: post #158
SpaceManNabs wrote: post #111

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AI is what??

https://www.pcmag.com/news/godot-game-engine-is-drowning-in-... https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/overrun-with-ai-slo... https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Human-In-The-Loop https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on... Just off the top of my head, I bet a lot of other repos are going through the same.

why use that specific word though?

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by trinsic2 »

SilverElfin wrote: post #51
rideontime wrote: post #20

I'm glad to see "Peter Thiel-backed" becoming a widely-recognized epithet.

Everyone needs to cut ties with those companies. Not just with Persona but any service linked to Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, Palmer Luckey, Elon Musk, David Sacks, etc. The entire MAGA cultist ecosystem. Unfortunately there will be companies that take their money and won’t care. It’ll be up to other companies and consumers to punish them for it. Maybe we need a website that lets you quickly check if you should or shou…

Which is pretty much everything at this point... God help us.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

AceyMan wrote: post #134
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #118

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The only non-evil Billionaire I know are the South park creators although they aren't tech Billionaires. I consider everyone else for the most part to not-be-good people. Because south park decided to personally say essentially bad words to paramount using their episodes, the company which gave them a billion dollars. So they took a billion dollars and they were still consistent with how they've been for decades at t…

I'd think that original creators such as J.K. Rowling, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift (among others) would be other members of the !evil bucket.

Taylor swift does seem to be using AI or something. I mean she's nice but not as nice as South park creators imo.

I have heard so much about Steven Spielberg but I must admit that I don't know much about the man but to me it does feel like you must be correct that he's a good guy, though I do see some controversies of steven spielberg on internet but South park is infamous with controversies as well.

There are 3028 billionaries from Forbes list and many many more almost-billionaires yet we have at most so few good billionaires that you can count them on your fingers.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by john_strinlai »

rezonant wrote: post #279
john_strinlai wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the last time the website was submitted, over half the comments talked about website design instead of the actual content. we can probably skip doing it again. different people have different tastes. people complain about boring websites, people complain about websites with animations or colors. the only guarantee is that the conversation isnt interesting. if you are on the side that doesnt like music, animations, wh…

Why not use your main account to post this, unless you mean it was submitted less than 4 days ago when your account was created? Genuinely curious what benefit a fresh account gives you here?

>unless you mean it was submitted less than 4 days ago

maybe you are unaware, but you can browse HN without an account, and you can browse previous submissions (years back, even!). its not like i can only see posts made in the last 4 days.

second, i saw the original post because it was posted in this very comment chain we are on, 5 hours ago, by bondarchuk (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137961).

my turn! what is your comment trying to accomplish by cross-examining me about something completely unrelated? what point are you trying to make?

if you think my comment is wrong, you should talk about the contents of the comment, not the age of my account.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

cloverich wrote: post #175
bri3d wrote: post #15

The referenced write-up based on the Persona front end code is here: https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona I definitely recommend reading this primary source before drawing conclusions about the code as most of the secondary reporting is quite low quality.

Note also there's a direct response from Persona's security team here[1], and a lot of back and forth from Rick on Twitter[2]. [1]: https://withpersona.com/blog/post-incident-review-source-map... [2]: https://x.com/Persona_IDV/status/2025048195773198385?s=20

Twitter requires login to view the replies, might use an alternative:

https://nitter.net/Persona_IDV/status/2025048195773198385

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by grayhatter »

harrisoned wrote: post #28
mikkupikku wrote: post #16

For some reason, discord has never asked more from me than a verified email address. No phone number or anything else. Maybe I'm being monitored and they don't want to spook me off the honeypot? Half joking..

Same for me, and my account is almost a decade old. I think it depends a lot where are you from and the kind of activity, as i read stories of people being asked to register a number out of nowhere. Many servers requires you to have it tho, due to spam protection. I just don't talk on those.

If your account is a decade old, and you registered at 13, you're now 23 and they don't need to verify you're older than 18. If you were younger than 13, they might be required to delete your account.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by trinsic2 »

gib444 wrote: post #215
rogerrogerr wrote: post #151

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This refusal to use people’s names comes across as childish and distracts from your intended point.

It's a useful deterrent against defenders (actual or bots) coming and drowning people out

That is a good idea. Yeah I often wonder if people that actually are not apart of this community just troll by searches.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by CamperBob2 »

fullshark wrote: post #161
dcchambers wrote: post #53

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Discord is a cancer on the open internet anyway. Real time chat? Great. But entire communities, forums, and wikis moving behind the locked walled of Discord has been a disaster for information discovery. Don't replace Discord with a similar alternative. Return to open forums and wikis!

These communities don't owe the world their information, and attention/adverisement economics destroyed the open internet on its own.

So they "owe it" to Discord. Got it.

Re: Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona

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Post by bardak »

m4rtink wrote: post #217
n8cpdx wrote: post #75

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Can someone explain to me how Discord got so big in the first place, particularly for non-gaming uses? I saw this coming a mile away when folks started ditching slack for Discord - Slack being problematic because a) it was profit-seeking and would use its leverage over your personal data to seek rent and b) it was antithetical to the open web. Discord has the exact same two issues so was obviously not a solution. Why…

Basically dumping - they made an objectively superior product that was completely free to users, funded by investor money without any plans for immediate profitability and long term sustainability. That was all nice for a few years, but it was clear it can't got like this for ever - and here we are.

Their constant treadmill of paid cosmetics, for lack of a better term, that no one was asking for and at least monthly Nitro beg screen is pretty indicative that they are having issues making revue and are desperately throwing things at the wall to see what sticks.
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