StuartLemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours ago

Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

www.techradar.com

external-link
message-square
153
fedilink
718
external-link

Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

www.techradar.com

QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours ago
message-square
153
fedilink
Spotify is the latest app to bring in age verification
  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    114
    ·
    edit-2
    10 hours ago

    ah from shady porn sites, like spotify and wikipedia. definitely protect kids from porn there. /s

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      8 hours ago

      So I feel like I’m now hearing more successful pushes for censorship through this stuff.

      Just last week I learned how Texas has a bill that makes it so if anyone ever invested in green technology that they wouldn’t be allowed

      https://www.texastribune.org/2022/08/24/texas-boycott-companies-fossil-fuels/

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        4 hours ago

        I saw a post saying /r/period required an age check.

        They’re gonna censor as much as they can with this.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 hours ago

        That makes no sense, surely everyone has invested in green energy through workplace retirement plans, no?

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      ·
      10 hours ago

      Is wikipedia on the list? I see reddit is, lol. We might see an influx soon.

      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        36
        ·
        9 hours ago

        not yet, but the wikimedia foundation has been fighting against it expecting that it would be a class 1 site and require it.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          22
          ·
          9 hours ago

          We have to protect wikipedia

          • Zombie@feddit.uk
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            18
            ·
            8 hours ago

            Here’s one way to help: https://kiwix.org/en/about-us/#our-story

            Download Wikipedia to your own device. If it’s ever blocked or taken down you still have access and can help share information with others.

            You can download different versions (e.g. without images) and different languages based on your needs.

            There’s other resources available via kiwix as well but I’ve not really explored them to be honest

            • jaybone@lemmy.zip
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              4
              ·
              6 hours ago

              Does it run a local web server or is it all static files? Is it searchable?

              • Zombie@feddit.uk
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                3
                ·
                6 hours ago

                We turn various online educational contents (such as Wikipedia, for example) into ZIM files, and these can be opened by Kiwix even if you have no connectivity whatsoever.

                https://flathub.org/apps/org.kiwix.desktop

                The ZIM file format is an open file format that stores website content for offline usage.[1] The format is defined by the openZIM project, which also supports an open-source ZIM reader called Kiwix. The format is primarily used to store the contents of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, including articles, full-text search indices and auxiliary files.[2][3]

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIM_(file_format)

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @[email protected]
  • @[email protected]
  • @[email protected]
  • @[email protected]
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 4.13K users / day
  • 10.2K users / week
  • 16.3K users / month
  • 37.4K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 73.6K subscribers
  • 4.67K Posts
  • 121K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • Technopagan@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot@lemmy.world
  • L3s@hackingne.ws
  • L4s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.9
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org