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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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    The new platform, W, will require identification and photo validation to ensure that its users are both humans and who they claim to be

    Kind of them to get that out of the way in the first sentence. No further reading required.

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      Lol, why not blood samples? IDs and photos can be faked by AI but not blood…yet.

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        https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/news-blog/lab-creates-fake-dna-evidence-2009-08-18/

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        Lol, why not blood samples?

        Could just mail in a stool sample.

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        Honestly, I prefer this.

        I can stand behind my words.

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        What was that movie with the gentic id stuff, gattaca? Yeah, shouldn’t give them too many “good” ideas…

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        I refuse to use anything that doesn’t allow authentication via bunghole print. It’s just more convenient.

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          A SmartPipetm subscriber in the wild?

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        You’re wishing a glorious doom upon us, my friend.

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      Ah man, I almost got excited for a second…

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