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@eniko How is a server supposed to verify an age? Of whom, when it has no 'the user'? What about their smart fridge? The espresso machine, next? They make no sense. (They are very dangerous.)

@eniko It moves my hope. But as my hope gets shoved into more and more niche possible futures... I'd feel foolish not to notice that I'm taking hope as a given without calculating the odds of constraint.

@h3artbl33d @neil yes, exactly. Which is why I loudly say someone needs to make a compatible device almost any time I get an opportunity. Because I've read IEEE 1789 and have no desire to keep putting refresh rates in my eyeballs and yet. But just this once, instead of that rant, I was aiming for offline mode and data sideload support in foss apps rants.

@neil I'm very interested in offline or only occasionally file sharing devices. After my last eink phone had malware problems, I don't want to let less than grapheneos on the net for mobile personally, but eink is so good for me... slowly exploring how much personal use I can shunt over to offline boox eink devices.

@Tarnport wow!

@mhoye I estimate no chance all the holes hit the right chip.

@neil To me this is a modernization of nothing more or less than being able to see who is in the room.

@neil I expect anyone I interact with in a professional capacity to tell me up front what data they collect and how it's processed, including all AI use. I expect them to tell me if their notes on our meeting will be stored in the cloud, will be uploaded to another jurisdiction, will be processed by a third party... My expectations are unlikely to be met but in my opinion they ought to be normal.

@neil I'll add an actionable one to the list while I'm at it:

Guys, if you have to have a 1:1 meeting, consider offering a choice (without making it sound like it's about safety or condescending, just an ordinary choice, maybe do this with everyone) of venue such as a coffee shop or cafeteria rather than insisting or defaulting (or putting the onus on them to insist otherwise) to having 1:1 meetings behind closed office doors. Some people with traumatic experiences around assault in closed rooms (more than you might think) will never say a word about it while quietly having hours of flashbacks and also forgetting everything you said in the meeting.

@neil I know these kind of articles in order to reach their audience (men who think they're doing nothing wrong) have to choose this framing... but the way they make it about women "feeling safer" and "feeling more comfortable" is itself a gendered microaggression it'd be really cool for men to stop defaulting to.

This stuff is about women _being_ safer, and about the reality that current cultural environments are not safe and have never been safe.

I wish we had a better framing for stuff like "touching, but didn't mean it like that" than to cast it as about the woman's feelings rather than their autonomy and their lived experience and there being extremely real reasons why normalized microaggression IS an aggression and contributes to rape culture.