"We also have reports of multiple children standing on each others shoulders and putting a trench coat over themselves."
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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I swear to god biometric security has to be one of those topics with the largest dissonance between how the general public views it and how experts view it because every expert guide recommends you never do any of it. Even removed from bypassing it with some makeup or an A4 printout of a finger print held at a bit of a distance overriding most of these systems you're still stuck at it's really hard to change your biometrics. Like even if you don't care for your face ending up in any number of databses freely purchaseable to anyone you only have the one. If that gets compromised everything downstream of it being your security is right the fuck out. Most fingerprint sensors don't even check for other biometrics such as "does this have a pulse or somewhat appropiate heat for a human body".
I am fully aware at least half of the reason to do this is to build a database for natsec pervert reasons
I swear to god biometric security has to be one of those topics with the largest dissonance between how the general public views it and how experts view it because every expert guide recommends you never do any of it.
I'm somewhat of an expert here, and I recommend against biometric ID. But I'm pretty sure I've seen other experts be open to the idea.
The kids are alright
Kid in the pic looks legit, they should let him buy that six pack.
im a billion years old and i would not pass facial recog age checkpoints without facial hair
I'm 30 and trying to grow facial hair makes me look 15 years younger in a real bad way. A month of growth makes me look like a teenager trying to grow a beard for the first time
Ah yes, I sure do love "adulting".
Maybe they should check height? I can't think of any way kids could fake that.
Discriminating against midgets?
hmm surprised it isn't in the slur filter, but "midget" is offensive to little people with dwarfism. I know this because one of my childhood friends is a little person and I sort of on again off again was seeing some with dwarfism. Anyway not sure if you know but it is what it is.
People with dwarfism is their term I should use?
Because it would feel wrong to call them dwarves.
"Little People" dwarfism is weird because it's the medical term
As always the correct term is whatever the individual person you're talking about prefers, which is 99% of the time just going to be their name unless there's a really good reason to discuss medical conditions
I've met some who find the term "little person" really condescending. Personally my default is either "short/really short people" since that's just using the terms by which we refer to everyone else, or person with dwarfism if there's a specific reason to have to discuss the group of people with the medical condition.
Really to me it seems like there's only one wrong answer, and that's the one oliveoil went with lmao
believe it or not, some age verification tech might say this kid is 15 online.
*stumbles to the bar* If I hadda drink e'ery-*hick!*-time tech sssshits the bed on ide-id-idef- checkin' fir kiddos...
*takes another drink* And the fffffffffffffffffffffeckin pedos are all buying those validated kiddy accounts *hick!* like they do on f'kn' Rollerblox...
[kids] submitted photos and videos of other people, or even fictional characters, to trick facial age-estimation tools.
lemmy tellya, back in my day *hick!* Woah *steadying myself* back in my day, we just had a checkboa-*bmph!* *gurk!* *pukes all over the floor*
Baaahtendah! I fffffound another *hick!* bypassth! The image shays it's shatire yet them *hick!* teh kiddos shay i' shtill worksh! Pash me an'ther drink!