Modern facial recognition cameras project a grid of infrared dots on your face and use the distortion of them to sense the depth and contours of your face. You'd have to 3d print a head to defeat it.

That said, Reddit is probably doing the bare minimum to comply with the law and will probably just use an uploaded 2d image.

A VPN future? Haha. Not if they don't want to. There are many ways to prevent VPN from operating when you're a government.

You can just plain ban encryption, which sounds really crazy, but yeah, they're trying to.

You can just say "it's illegal to use a VPN". It'll technically still work, but if there's a trace of trafic from your house to a known VPN endpoint, you're it! Great!

They can force custom proprietary spying software on your devices. Sounds equally crazy as the thing above, right? But rest assured they're ALSO trying to do that. Multiple times, even. And in some places… they did. Of course, nothing forces you to have such software on your device. Especially if your devices are not supported; it also turns into a "you have to buy this or that big name device, everything else's de-facto illegal! Fuck you, we're the government!". And if you get caught for whatever, and your phone, PC, or anything isn't "compliant"? Bam. Guilty.

Plenty of option. All of them completely stupid and would weaken both privacy, individuals, and governments at large. It never stopped legislation from being pushed forward.

Yeah, this is showing up at roughly the same time we can get (almost) free 5 second video generation from some services, and fast still picture generation on consumer grade hardware. It's the perfect combination of useless, stupid, and obsolete, all in one very pricey and very dangerous precedent-filled package.

techno-archeology is a thing I guess

POV = point of view. The intern's point of view. They're looking at the selfies submitted by gooners. The picture is a gooner. Idk what you're talking about.

Yeah. I like the idea of separare WiFi. INE forma adults and another for kids

Work VPN doesn't look any different to any other VPN to the people tapping the lines.

I agree, and whilst I don't personally bother with vpns myself because I prefer other solutions, it's one of the things that helps prevent insane UK politicians' bad hottakes on tech becoming law

Edit: an apostrophe

That brings up an interesting thought. What if people uploaded AI generated selfies?

Kier Starmer voice: “We are an island, of wankers”

Reddit stopped being any good when that guy doing a batman/joker role reversal writing prompt stopped posting

Im using a UK based IP and everything is works the same

Do we have your permission to have a wank, Government Daddy?

A shadow contract is one of few mechanisms to enter large-scale consensus (it isn't THAT large when compared to a solar or galactic scale, but large enough for planetary control, and with some clever management, can scale larger).

You don't know that, I've seen shadow contracts that apply to intergalactic scales. I would wager they can be used for interdimensional organisations

I'll just use a VPN to hide my VPN use and then they'll never know.

We thought the same thing about Netflix with the sharing password bans. Yet they retained more profit than ever the next year.

Who's to say if this is what will make Reddit end, or did they actually just got more successful after the end of 3rd party apps compared to the declaration of so many users back then?

Digital personal verification is just going to become a fact of life in the future for everyone born after about 2012. They will use online ID cards, biometrics, location metadata that is constantly uploaded by our devices, maybe even implanted RFID encrypted chips for account verification. Passwords are becoming outdated and outmoded for security as we speak here. 2FA is the minimum security for online today but that may soon become outmoded as well.

Cool brah

Once businesses fully implement zero-trust, VPNs are redundant.

Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies.

for non-work purposes

Sounds like a loophole to me!