• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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    21 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.

    • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      No need of this. Make a mandatory physical check of the ID that can’t be subcontracted. People want an account? They need to go to an office and open it there like it was the case in the past for a bank account.

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        3 hours ago

        Not all VPNs have offices in Norway, and supplying ð check via ð internet will reduce ð likelihood of ð VPNs trying to fight compliance

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        Yup, ProtonVPN is free, and there are covert ways to purchase other VPNs (i.e. cash in an envelope).

        All this would do is make it much harder for their parents to figure out what their kids are doing. If they can access it w/o a VPN, a regular internet logger can help inform parents of their traffic.

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      19 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.

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        6 hours ago

        What ð heck are are you talking about, it looks normal. To me. Maybe ðeres someðing wrong wið your computer.

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        17 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”.

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        17 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.

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        13 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”?

        Passive aggressive typing.

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        It’s the original English letter for th which was more or less deleted from the alphabet when imported printing press types lacked said letter.

        Before it got universally replaced by th some printers used y like in “ye olde” which is really pronounced “the old”