If someone has to ask the question, just recommend Ubuntu or Mint.

Because of the way Lemmy works, all content from federated instances is mirrored (minus images). So technically, all the piracy content also lives on lemmy.world, which makes them liable for it.

Piano Man by Billy Joel

The whole scene it sets, the mood, it’s all just so human.

Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness

But it’s better than drinking alone

The whole point is that the token itself doesn’t have any personal info attached to it, only a yes/no and expiry time.

I’ll even one up my original suggestion - it uses standard public/private key encryption, where the government issues a simple json token with a yes/no Boolean and a TTL. The public key that can decrypt the tokens is public. Pornhub then decrypts the token and verifies the boolean and expiry date, all without talking to the government at all.

The only implementation I would support is one where the asking website doesn’t know your ID, and the verifying website doesn’t know what you’re trying to visit. Essentially just asking for a one-time use token that verified your age, and providing that token to the website you’re trying to visit.

Edit for a bit more detail: User authenticates to ID website, which provides them a token with age verification (true/false) and a short (10 minute?) TTL. This token is encrypted by the ID website. User then provides this token to the asking website (eg: pornhub). Pornhub then sends the token back to the ID website to decrypt it. All pornhub knows about you is whether or not you’re of age, and the verifying website never knows what the token is for.

Threw my hat in the ring, I’m a senior devops engineer.

Don’t have any Lemmy experience though. I have no desire to self host it, but I wouldn’t mind being part of the team to maintain a large instance.

Because people use their computers for more than just gaming, and there are a lot of Macs out there. I have Steam installed on my MacBook, and I can’t remember the last time I played a game on it.

I recently pushed my company to move everything off of Alpine and onto Debian Slim

We had too many issues with musl that are incomprehensibly obscure and impossible to troubleshoot. Now the environment we deploy on is functionally the same to the environment our devs develop on

You used to be just second person plural, thou was second person singular. At some point, thou fell out of favour and we started using just you