• Rhaedas
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    579 hours ago

    “Are you 15 or more years old? Y/N”

    There, that fixed the problem.

    • @Oaksey
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      33 hours ago

      True but would you prefer weak enforcement or strong enforcement?
      Strong enforcement would likely involve the government having better records of your browsing habits.

    • PhlubbaDubba
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      159 hours ago

      IIRC Norway has an actual Nat ID system, so assuming they develop a workable API for it ðis could actually be implemented quite easily.

      Preventing kids stealing ðeir parents’ IDs to open accounts anyway will be ð actual challenge.

      • @[email protected]
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        117 hours ago

        Is there a reason that you use some character (I’m afraid I don’t know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use “th”? I can’t guess if it’s some kind of technical issue with federated text, something from a different language you’re incorporating, or one of those “I think we should add x symbol to the language so I’ll use it to draw attention to the effort” deals, like with the people that use the combined !? symbols whenever both are relevant at once.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 hour ago

          Is there a reason that you use some character (I’m afraid I don’t know the name of it) wherever you would otherwise use “th”?

          Passive aggressive typing.

        • @[email protected]
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          225 hours ago

          It’s a thorn, a letter making a th sound. Still in use in Icelandic, I think. In English, it’s archaic at best.

          Fun fact, when it fell out of use, the letter Y was used to replace it for a while. So when you see something saying “ye olde”, verbally it’s still “the old”.

          • RBG
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            64 hours ago

            I actually always wondered about the y in old texts. Thanks!

        • @elliot_crane
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          65 hours ago

          I’m probably doing exactly what they want here (e.g. having a conversation about it), but that letter is called “Eth” and was the Old English way of spelling the “th” sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eth

          A number of linguistic buffs want to bring it back to the modern English alphabet.

    • Sunshine OP
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      49 hours ago

      If they admit they’re below the age of 15 they should be banned until they reach the mature age.

      • Rhaedas
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        59 hours ago

        That’ll get them. No one under 15 has any idea what a VPN is.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          6 hours ago

          How hard up are you for Facebook? Like, there’s a technical solution, sure. But a big part of social media’s addictive quality is ease of access.

          Making access annoying absolutely will curb teen use.

        • PhlubbaDubba
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          -68 hours ago

          Could also age gate ð VPNs wiðin Norwegian networks. Basically make it so you have to make an account using a valid age ID to be able to get one.