Why is this such a big thing? Who cares about the face scan?
Take a picture of your debit/credit card back and front for me. I won't use it to buy stuff, but I wouldn't mind a picture of it for safe keeping.
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#732Any age verification process that does not consider the age of the account as a verification option is a data trap, plain and simple.
Has discord even been around for 18 years?
It's been around for 11. However, you can reasonably assume that kids aren't registering accounts below the age at which kids are generally literate; if we spitball an age of five this means old accounts cannot be younger than 16.
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#733So many comments but i dont see anyone mentioning llm to replicate Discord, or others Twitter, Facebook. If claude can create a C compiler this would be trivial. And demonstrate the actual real world benefits of AI.
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#734That's a solid no from me. Looks like I'll be moving my gaming friends back to Steam and the others to a secure messaging platform or one I can host myself. Before Discord I was running a Mumble server that everyone could connect to and everyone liked it a lot.
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#735It is a great irony that the heavy handed push for "protect da kids" is all happening while we learn, day by day, that the richest and most powerful members of our society have no problem hanging out with a convicted child sex trafficker. Rules for thee, free love for me.
These are literally _the same people_. Musk was hanging out with child sex trafficker and is allowing kids to create porn with grok on X.
Did Musk really hang out with Epstein? I only saw email conversations between the two.
By contrast, Bill Gates and Reid Hofmann hung out with Epstein A LOT.
And Hofmann was Epstein's primary connection into the Silicon Valley scene.
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#736I'm biased, as I lead the Zulip project. But I think this is a reasonable place for me to post some thoughts. Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be about the fact that a few companies like Discord, Google (Gmail), and Meta have databases with access to the private conversations of hundreds of millions of people with their closest friends and family members, linked up with…
Can you get Zulip supported by OpenClaw? Zulip was my first choice communication channel.
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#737Guess I’ll have to try convincing all my friends to move to Matrix.
Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
#738I'm biased, as I lead the Zulip project. But I think this is a reasonable place for me to post some thoughts. Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be about the fact that a few companies like Discord, Google (Gmail), and Meta have databases with access to the private conversations of hundreds of millions of people with their closest friends and family members, linked up with…
Based on some (admittedly very surface level) research, one spot where Zulip will still struggle to replace Discord is Voice/Video chats and Screensharing - the little I could find about voice chatting in zulip is that it has to be configured to use an external service (jitsi, zoom, etc)
If you do no configuration, it'll use the public Jitsi service for video calls. So no action required unless you want a different video call provider.
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#739I'm really torn on this one.
I remember the internet from '99. Before facebook, before messangers.
People were communicating via usenet mailing groups - think online forum but via email - and it was quite common that they were not only signing their mails with full name, but often with a home address so others could send them postcards - think patreon for caveman.
IRC users had frequent local meetups and regulars could easily put a face behind an username.
I understand it was different time at different place, but oh boy, it was so much better.
Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
#740I'm biased, as I lead the Zulip project. But I think this is a reasonable place for me to post some thoughts. Given current events in the USA, I can't emphasize enough how worried one should be about the fact that a few companies like Discord, Google (Gmail), and Meta have databases with access to the private conversations of hundreds of millions of people with their closest friends and family members, linked up with…
Can you get Zulip supported by OpenClaw? Zulip was my first choice communication channel.
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/discussions/5163 suggests it already has a PR.
I'm told (https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/channel/127-integrations/topi...) that upvoting that discussion might help it get prioritized.