#age-check — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #age-check, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: Warning: Adult content bypass Age Verification on Xvideos.com and Tnaflix.com
You want to bypass Xvideos.com and Tnaflix.com age verification without giving your personnal information? We developped two Extensions for Brave/Chrome who work flawlessly.
Check the video here : https://usersporn.com/video/15852705Extension Download link: https://mega.nz/file/mgZjxbKS#gGhPDRbqpYxb8IIU3mW8PKD8luVkaI9eT4LwVIQdbyM
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CW: Warning: Adult content bypass Age Verification on Xvideos.com and Tnaflix.com
You want to bypass Xvideos.com and Tnaflix.com age verification without giving your personnal information? We developped two Extensions for Brave/Chrome who work flawlessly.
Check the video here : https://usersporn.com/video/15852705Extension Download link: https://mega.nz/file/mgZjxbKS#gGhPDRbqpYxb8IIU3mW8PKD8luVkaI9eT4LwVIQdbyM
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CW: Warning: Adult content bypass Age Verification on Xvideos.com and Tnaflix.com
You want to bypass Xvideos.com and Tnaflix.com age verification without giving your personnal information? We developped two Extensions for Brave/Chrome who work flawlessly.
Check the video here : https://usersporn.com/video/15852705Extension Download link: https://mega.nz/file/mgZjxbKS#gGhPDRbqpYxb8IIU3mW8PKD8luVkaI9eT4LwVIQdbyM
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Think Of The Children: How To Force #RealID For All Internet Traffic (2023)
OR ... How to trick billions into voluntarily self #censorship and Real ID #tracking
Preface: Recently some states and a country have been implementing a centralized commercial database that will be required to upload state ID's and other documents to prove one is an #adult when logging into adult websites. And this is how it starts.
#privacy #security #ageverification #children #agecheck #identity #verification #verify #thinkofthechildren #surveillancehttps://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/
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Think Of The Children: How To Force #RealID For All Internet Traffic (2023)
OR ... How to trick billions into voluntarily self #censorship and Real ID #tracking
Preface: Recently some states and a country have been implementing a centralized commercial database that will be required to upload state ID's and other documents to prove one is an #adult when logging into adult websites. And this is how it starts.
#privacy #security #ageverification #children #agecheck #identity #verification #verify #thinkofthechildren #surveillancehttps://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/
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Think Of The Children: How To Force #RealID For All Internet Traffic (2023)
OR ... How to trick billions into voluntarily self #censorship and Real ID #tracking
Preface: Recently some states and a country have been implementing a centralized commercial database that will be required to upload state ID's and other documents to prove one is an #adult when logging into adult websites. And this is how it starts.
#privacy #security #ageverification #children #agecheck #identity #verification #verify #thinkofthechildren #surveillancehttps://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/
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Think Of The Children: How To Force #RealID For All Internet Traffic (2023)
OR ... How to trick billions into voluntarily self #censorship and Real ID #tracking
Preface: Recently some states and a country have been implementing a centralized commercial database that will be required to upload state ID's and other documents to prove one is an #adult when logging into adult websites. And this is how it starts.
#privacy #security #ageverification #children #agecheck #identity #verification #verify #thinkofthechildren #surveillancehttps://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/
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Think Of The Children: How To Force #RealID For All Internet Traffic (2023)
OR ... How to trick billions into voluntarily self #censorship and Real ID #tracking
Preface: Recently some states and a country have been implementing a centralized commercial database that will be required to upload state ID's and other documents to prove one is an #adult when logging into adult websites. And this is how it starts.
#privacy #security #ageverification #children #agecheck #identity #verification #verify #thinkofthechildren #surveillancehttps://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20230829-Think-Of-The-Children/
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Start an age check process to play on your Playstation and get reported to authorities because you are using a privacy respecting operating system. Nice dystopia we are living in 🤦♂️.
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36134-grapheneos-user-reported-to-authorities-for-using-grapheneos
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1txn8di/did_i_just_got_threatened_by_yoti_age/
#Sony #Playstation #Privacy #AgeCheck #GrapheneOS -
Start an age check process to play on your Playstation and get reported to authorities because you are using a privacy respecting operating system. Nice dystopia we are living in 🤦♂️.
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36134-grapheneos-user-reported-to-authorities-for-using-grapheneos
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1txn8di/did_i_just_got_threatened_by_yoti_age/
#Sony #Playstation #Privacy #AgeCheck #GrapheneOS -
Start an age check process to play on your Playstation and get reported to authorities because you are using a privacy respecting operating system. Nice dystopia we are living in 🤦♂️.
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36134-grapheneos-user-reported-to-authorities-for-using-grapheneos
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1txn8di/did_i_just_got_threatened_by_yoti_age/
#Sony #Playstation #Privacy #AgeCheck #GrapheneOS -
Start an age check process to play on your Playstation and get reported to authorities because you are using a privacy respecting operating system. Nice dystopia we are living in 🤦♂️.
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36134-grapheneos-user-reported-to-authorities-for-using-grapheneos
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1txn8di/did_i_just_got_threatened_by_yoti_age/
#Sony #Playstation #Privacy #AgeCheck #GrapheneOS -
Start an age check process to play on your Playstation and get reported to authorities because you are using a privacy respecting operating system. Nice dystopia we are living in 🤦♂️.
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36134-grapheneos-user-reported-to-authorities-for-using-grapheneos
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1txn8di/did_i_just_got_threatened_by_yoti_age/
#Sony #Playstation #Privacy #AgeCheck #GrapheneOS -
#Linux Is Too# Powerful For #AgeCheck Laws #MentalOutlaw #yt #Privacy #Security #MassSurveillance
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Met a young person yesterday.
They defeat the age checks trivially.The #agecheck is to track adults.
The fash have been trying to bring real id to the net for at least 20 years.Previously, they needed a court order to get the IP to the name from the ISP.
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Met a young person yesterday.
They defeat the age checks trivially.The #agecheck is to track adults.
The fash have been trying to bring real id to the net for at least 20 years.Previously, they needed a court order to get the IP to the name from the ISP.
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Met a young person yesterday.
They defeat the age checks trivially.The #agecheck is to track adults.
The fash have been trying to bring real id to the net for at least 20 years.Previously, they needed a court order to get the IP to the name from the ISP.
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You can not control Linux. We will build systems around it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ0iVWUvvDMBy the way, you can install Artixlinux Packages over my i2p mirror for better censorship resilience. If you ask kindly, I might add your favorite distros repo.
#mentaloutlaw #cypherpunk #cyberanarchist #linux #agelesslinux #agecheck #monero #artix #i2p
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You can not control Linux. We will build systems around it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ0iVWUvvDMBy the way, you can install Artixlinux Packages over my i2p mirror for better censorship resilience. If you ask kindly, I might add your favorite distros repo.
#mentaloutlaw #cypherpunk #cyberanarchist #linux #agelesslinux #agecheck #monero #artix #i2p
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You can not control Linux. We will build systems around it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ0iVWUvvDMBy the way, you can install Artixlinux Packages over my i2p mirror for better censorship resilience. If you ask kindly, I might add your favorite distros repo.
#mentaloutlaw #cypherpunk #cyberanarchist #linux #agelesslinux #agecheck #monero #artix #i2p
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You can not control Linux. We will build systems around it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ0iVWUvvDMBy the way, you can install Artixlinux Packages over my i2p mirror for better censorship resilience. If you ask kindly, I might add your favorite distros repo.
#mentaloutlaw #cypherpunk #cyberanarchist #linux #agelesslinux #agecheck #monero #artix #i2p
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You can not control Linux. We will build systems around it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ0iVWUvvDMBy the way, you can install Artixlinux Packages over my i2p mirror for better censorship resilience. If you ask kindly, I might add your favorite distros repo.
#mentaloutlaw #cypherpunk #cyberanarchist #linux #agelesslinux #agecheck #monero #artix #i2p
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@marcel ist das ein ding? interview heute auf ntv mit anna zeitler w.social, nennung anbieter agecheck. alles,sicher
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@marcel ist das ein ding? interview heute auf ntv mit anna zeitler w.social, nennung anbieter agecheck. alles,sicher
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@marcel ist das ein ding? interview heute auf ntv mit anna zeitler w.social, nennung anbieter agecheck. alles,sicher
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@marcel ist das ein ding? interview heute auf ntv mit anna zeitler w.social, nennung anbieter agecheck. alles,sicher
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#Roblox shares dropped 18% after the company reported first-quarter earnings, citing new #childsafety measures as a factor. The company’s #agecheck feature, implemented in January, restricted communication and slowed #useracquisition, leading to a revised full-year 2026 bookings forecast. Despite the challenges, Roblox’s first-quarter results surpassed Wall Street estimates. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#Roblox shares dropped 18% after the company reported first-quarter earnings, citing new #childsafety measures as a factor. The company’s #agecheck feature, implemented in January, restricted communication and slowed #useracquisition, leading to a revised full-year 2026 bookings forecast. Despite the challenges, Roblox’s first-quarter results surpassed Wall Street estimates. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#Roblox shares dropped 18% after the company reported first-quarter earnings, citing new #childsafety measures as a factor. The company’s #agecheck feature, implemented in January, restricted communication and slowed #useracquisition, leading to a revised full-year 2026 bookings forecast. Despite the challenges, Roblox’s first-quarter results surpassed Wall Street estimates. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#Roblox shares dropped 18% after the company reported first-quarter earnings, citing new #childsafety measures as a factor. The company’s #agecheck feature, implemented in January, restricted communication and slowed #useracquisition, leading to a revised full-year 2026 bookings forecast. Despite the challenges, Roblox’s first-quarter results surpassed Wall Street estimates. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#Roblox shares dropped 18% after the company reported first-quarter earnings, citing new #childsafety measures as a factor. The company’s #agecheck feature, implemented in January, restricted communication and slowed #useracquisition, leading to a revised full-year 2026 bookings forecast. Despite the challenges, Roblox’s first-quarter results surpassed Wall Street estimates. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
#HackerNews #Brussels #AgeCheck #Hackers #Security #TechNews #Vulnerabilities
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Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
#HackerNews #Brussels #AgeCheck #Hackers #Security #TechNews #Vulnerabilities
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Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
#HackerNews #Brussels #AgeCheck #Hackers #Security #TechNews #Vulnerabilities
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Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
#HackerNews #Brussels #AgeCheck #Hackers #Security #TechNews #Vulnerabilities
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Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
#HackerNews #Brussels #AgeCheck #Hackers #Security #TechNews #Vulnerabilities
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Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile
LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.
4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future
A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.
4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag
I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.
4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag
I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.
4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag
I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.
4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena
My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.
4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi
Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.
4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag
I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.
#ageCheck #ageGating #ageVerification #ASTSpaceMobile #BlueOrigin #contentCreation #GoogleAIMode #InternetArchive #JeffersonGraham #JulianaBroste #las #LasVegas #lvcc #NABShow #NewGlenn #NTT #NTTUpgrade #NTTUpgrade2026 #Roblox #RobloxKids #SanJose #satelliteToPhone #SJC #swag #TMobile #TMobileInflightWiFi #travelTools #UA #UnitedAirlines #userGroups #Vegas #WaybackMachine -
Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile
LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.
4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future
A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.
4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag
I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.
4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag
I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.
4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag
I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.
4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena
My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.
4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi
Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.
4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag
I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.
#ageCheck #ageGating #ageVerification #ASTSpaceMobile #BlueOrigin #contentCreation #GoogleAIMode #InternetArchive #JeffersonGraham #JulianaBroste #las #LasVegas #lvcc #NABShow #NewGlenn #NTT #NTTUpgrade #NTTUpgrade2026 #Roblox #RobloxKids #SanJose #satelliteToPhone #SJC #swag #TMobile #TMobileInflightWiFi #travelTools #UA #UnitedAirlines #userGroups #Vegas #WaybackMachine -
Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile
LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.
4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future
A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.
4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag
I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.
4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag
I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.
4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag
I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.
4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena
My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.
4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi
Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.
4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag
I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.
#ageCheck #ageGating #ageVerification #ASTSpaceMobile #BlueOrigin #contentCreation #GoogleAIMode #InternetArchive #JeffersonGraham #JulianaBroste #las #LasVegas #lvcc #NABShow #NewGlenn #NTT #NTTUpgrade #NTTUpgrade2026 #Roblox #RobloxKids #SanJose #satelliteToPhone #SJC #swag #TMobile #TMobileInflightWiFi #travelTools #UA #UnitedAirlines #userGroups #Vegas #WaybackMachine -
Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile
LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.
4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future
A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.
4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag
I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.
4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag
I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.
4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag
I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.
4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena
My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.
4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi
Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.
4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag
I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.
#ageCheck #ageGating #ageVerification #ASTSpaceMobile #BlueOrigin #contentCreation #GoogleAIMode #InternetArchive #JeffersonGraham #JulianaBroste #las #LasVegas #lvcc #NABShow #NewGlenn #NTT #NTTUpgrade #NTTUpgrade2026 #Roblox #RobloxKids #SanJose #satelliteToPhone #SJC #swag #TMobile #TMobileInflightWiFi #travelTools #UA #UnitedAirlines #userGroups #Vegas #WaybackMachine -
Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile
LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.
4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future
A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.
4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag
I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.
4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag
I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.
4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag
I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.
4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena
My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.
4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi
Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.
4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag
I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.
#ageCheck #ageGating #ageVerification #ASTSpaceMobile #BlueOrigin #contentCreation #GoogleAIMode #InternetArchive #JeffersonGraham #JulianaBroste #las #LasVegas #lvcc #NABShow #NewGlenn #NTT #NTTUpgrade #NTTUpgrade2026 #Roblox #RobloxKids #SanJose #satelliteToPhone #SJC #swag #TMobile #TMobileInflightWiFi #travelTools #UA #UnitedAirlines #userGroups #Vegas #WaybackMachine -
Another huge shitstorm thread from British security researchers on Twitter[^1] about how the reference implementation of #EUDigitalWallet #AgeCheck published on https://ageverification.dev is “insecure”, while ignoring the tiny details it’s a REFERENCE implementation whose documentation literally say:
Pre-configured hosted services that allow you to test the Age Verification App and its core components without the need for complex local setup.
A production version would be hooked up to a respective national id database and therefore require no selfies etc.[^2]
The funny part is that a national id database is something that we don’t have in the UK[^3] because we instead made a choice to use commercial services from a private company Experian for the same purpose 😁
Also, you can clearly see that #Brexit did not only happen thanks to some red necks, as it’s often portrayed - British elites are also have a strong knee jerk response to anything that comes from the EU and violated “established truths” of their generation, for example the axiom that anything designed by a shitty private company is 100x better than anything designed by the “government”. I would honestly expect better from the generation of people who had actually lots of interesting things to say about cryptography and computer security in the past.
[^1]: https://xcancel.com/Paul_Reviews/status/2044436001611801072?s=20
[^2]: https://ageverification.dev
[^3]: https://krvtz.net/en/posts/in-defense-of-the-national-id-and-digital-id.html
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Another huge shitstorm thread from British security researchers on Twitter[^1] about how the reference implementation of #EUDigitalWallet #AgeCheck published on https://ageverification.dev is “insecure”, while ignoring the tiny details it’s a REFERENCE implementation whose documentation literally say:
Pre-configured hosted services that allow you to test the Age Verification App and its core components without the need for complex local setup.
A production version would be hooked up to a respective national id database and therefore require no selfies etc.[^2]
The funny part is that a national id database is something that we don’t have in the UK[^3] because we instead made a choice to use commercial services from a private company Experian for the same purpose 😁
Also, you can clearly see that #Brexit did not only happen thanks to some red necks, as it’s often portrayed - British elites are also have a strong knee jerk response to anything that comes from the EU and violated “established truths” of their generation, for example the axiom that anything designed by a shitty private company is 100x better than anything designed by the “government”. I would honestly expect better from the generation of people who had actually lots of interesting things to say about cryptography and computer security in the past.
[^1]: https://xcancel.com/Paul_Reviews/status/2044436001611801072?s=20
[^2]: https://ageverification.dev
[^3]: https://krvtz.net/en/posts/in-defense-of-the-national-id-and-digital-id.html
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Another huge shitstorm thread from British security researchers on Twitter[^1] about how the reference implementation of #EUDigitalWallet #AgeCheck published on https://ageverification.dev is “insecure”, while ignoring the tiny details it’s a REFERENCE implementation whose documentation literally say:
Pre-configured hosted services that allow you to test the Age Verification App and its core components without the need for complex local setup.
A production version would be hooked up to a respective national id database and therefore require no selfies etc.[^2]
The funny part is that a national id database is something that we don’t have in the UK[^3] because we instead made a choice to use commercial services from a private company Experian for the same purpose 😁
Also, you can clearly see that #Brexit did not only happen thanks to some red necks, as it’s often portrayed - British elites are also have a strong knee jerk response to anything that comes from the EU and violated “established truths” of their generation, for example the axiom that anything designed by a shitty private company is 100x better than anything designed by the “government”. I would honestly expect better from the generation of people who had actually lots of interesting things to say about cryptography and computer security in the past.
[^1]: https://xcancel.com/Paul_Reviews/status/2044436001611801072?s=20
[^2]: https://ageverification.dev
[^3]: https://krvtz.net/en/posts/in-defense-of-the-national-id-and-digital-id.html
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Another huge shitstorm thread from British security researchers on Twitter[^1] about how the reference implementation of #EUDigitalWallet #AgeCheck published on https://ageverification.dev is “insecure”, while ignoring the tiny details it’s a REFERENCE implementation whose documentation literally say:
Pre-configured hosted services that allow you to test the Age Verification App and its core components without the need for complex local setup.
A production version would be hooked up to a respective national id database and therefore require no selfies etc.[^2]
The funny part is that a national id database is something that we don’t have in the UK[^3] because we instead made a choice to use commercial services from a private company Experian for the same purpose 😁
Also, you can clearly see that #Brexit did not only happen thanks to some red necks, as it’s often portrayed - British elites are also have a strong knee jerk response to anything that comes from the EU and violated “established truths” of their generation, for example the axiom that anything designed by a shitty private company is 100x better than anything designed by the “government”. I would honestly expect better from the generation of people who had actually lots of interesting things to say about cryptography and computer security in the past.
[^1]: https://xcancel.com/Paul_Reviews/status/2044436001611801072?s=20
[^2]: https://ageverification.dev
[^3]: https://krvtz.net/en/posts/in-defense-of-the-national-id-and-digital-id.html
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Another huge shitstorm thread from British security researchers on Twitter[^1] about how the reference implementation of #EUDigitalWallet #AgeCheck published on https://ageverification.dev is “insecure”, while ignoring the tiny details it’s a REFERENCE implementation whose documentation literally say:
Pre-configured hosted services that allow you to test the Age Verification App and its core components without the need for complex local setup.
A production version would be hooked up to a respective national id database and therefore require no selfies etc.[^2]
The funny part is that a national id database is something that we don’t have in the UK[^3] because we instead made a choice to use commercial services from a private company Experian for the same purpose 😁
Also, you can clearly see that #Brexit did not only happen thanks to some red necks, as it’s often portrayed - British elites are also have a strong knee jerk response to anything that comes from the EU and violated “established truths” of their generation, for example the axiom that anything designed by a shitty private company is 100x better than anything designed by the “government”. I would honestly expect better from the generation of people who had actually lots of interesting things to say about cryptography and computer security in the past.
[^1]: https://xcancel.com/Paul_Reviews/status/2044436001611801072?s=20
[^2]: https://ageverification.dev
[^3]: https://krvtz.net/en/posts/in-defense-of-the-national-id-and-digital-id.html
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@EUCommission statement on the #EUDigitalWallet #AgeCheck mechanism that has been subject to tons of disinformation. I recommend the whole statement, but just will quote the critical fragment:
Our solution builds on zero-knowledge proof: this means that when users want to access an age-restricted service, you remain in full control of your data.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_820
I’ve written more about its technical details here:
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@EUCommission statement on the #EUDigitalWallet #AgeCheck mechanism that has been subject to tons of disinformation. I recommend the whole statement, but just will quote the critical fragment:
Our solution builds on zero-knowledge proof: this means that when users want to access an age-restricted service, you remain in full control of your data.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_820
I’ve written more about its technical details here:
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@EUCommission statement on the #EUDigitalWallet #AgeCheck mechanism that has been subject to tons of disinformation. I recommend the whole statement, but just will quote the critical fragment:
Our solution builds on zero-knowledge proof: this means that when users want to access an age-restricted service, you remain in full control of your data.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_820
I’ve written more about its technical details here:
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@EUCommission statement on the #EUDigitalWallet #AgeCheck mechanism that has been subject to tons of disinformation. I recommend the whole statement, but just will quote the critical fragment:
Our solution builds on zero-knowledge proof: this means that when users want to access an age-restricted service, you remain in full control of your data.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_820
I’ve written more about its technical details here:
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@EUCommission statement on the #EUDigitalWallet #AgeCheck mechanism that has been subject to tons of disinformation. I recommend the whole statement, but just will quote the critical fragment:
Our solution builds on zero-knowledge proof: this means that when users want to access an age-restricted service, you remain in full control of your data.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_820
I’ve written more about its technical details here:
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#Roblox is introducing new account types, #RobloxKids and #RobloxSelect, to provide age-appropriate access to games and chat. These accounts will use #agecheck technology to restrict access to content based on age, with #parents having the option to approve specific games. The changes come after lawsuits alleging child safety concerns. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/roblox-introduces-kids-and-select-accounts-for-age-appropriate-access-to-games-and-chat/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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#Roblox is introducing new account types, #RobloxKids and #RobloxSelect, to provide age-appropriate access to games and chat. These accounts will use #agecheck technology to restrict access to content based on age, with #parents having the option to approve specific games. The changes come after lawsuits alleging child safety concerns. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/roblox-introduces-kids-and-select-accounts-for-age-appropriate-access-to-games-and-chat/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
