Not even the big instances like LemmyWorld or Beehaw would be safe. Even more for self hosted instances.
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What about rental programs, OP? You can try one for a month and see what models suit your needs.
Reddit could have retained the public goodwill just by communicating things in a transparent manner... well 🤷
Spanish speakers often assume Portuguese will be an easy language to learn because both are very similar in grammar and orthography, but many end up sounding with a heavy spanish accent when they attempt to speak Portuguese because they don't emphasize phonetic differences and proper pronunciation compared to students from other languages do.
Same. I'm not into selfies. I just want my keyboard.
I don't think they have downvotes for that matter.
Precisely. The national ID number itself was easily to spoof using a simple formula, but the difficult part was actual the "adult" verification, which I presume it was done by consulting a government database with actual citizen info. It was very easy to leak, and it did leak a lot.
There are countries like S Korea that used to demand new users national ID at signup (not anymore thankfully) and many websites, especially at the early 2000s, had your real name featured next to your nickname (following the tradition from their own national dial-up BBS forums). The argument was that revealing your real identity would make internet interaction more "civil".
Guess what happened. Identity theft was rampant, trolling was equally widespread, you think Facebook spearheaded mixing real name profiles and internet sewagery, you haven't seen anything like CyWorld from early 2000s.
The cases of identity theft ranged from minors borrowing their dads and uncles ID to actual Chinese hackers dumping massive records from the same Korean companies gathering them because of that stupid law. This was done so they could... access forums that demanded a valid national ID from a 18+ years old citizen, for example.
I was there, man. You'd find out your typical forum shitposter (that had surprisingly "ample" tastes) with a profile that says "46 y.o. male (ID verified)" is revealed as an elementary school kid using their uncles ID and gets banhammer'd. Monthly.
Not China, but you know the rest... like that Laotian character from King of the Hills who gets asked "So you're from China or Japan?" everytime.
That's true. They must have gained access to the phone itself somehow.
When I was told to get lost and go back to China because the pandemic reliefs were for the fellow countrymen.
Brand of the 4g router?