The…sims? We are fighting this rot with the sims basically?
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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Alright. But how do we stop the AI spyware from constantly monitoring our activity?
Might not be an issue for me since I'm using the flatpak of Vesktop, but getting all my none-technical friends to move away from Discord will be pain.
You can’t pull one over on these kids. They have tons of free time and none of the responsibility of adulthood, they’re gonna bypass whatever the fuck you put in front of them.
I was that kid that refused to be constrained and I’m so fucking proud of this generation for carrying on the legacy.
Don't forget about terminally online single adults, too.
My kid last year in 5th grade (or maybe even the year before?) and his classmates figured out they could use shared Google Docs on their school accounts to have chats with each other, during school. The parent side of me rolled my eyes but the 80s kid in me was legitimately proud. Did I narc on them? Hell no.
The one hilarious thing is that all sorts of new social issues arise with this kind of workaround. Document names get changed, someone deletes something that someone else thinks is important, etc., and they have to work it out. So it’s a learning experience, for sure!
I remember doing that in Economics in high school in like 2013. The document was named "Totally work related" and the teacher saw it, laughed, and just told us to pay attention. Idk if he was impressed or what, but he didn't even make us delete it.
That’s a great teacher.
reminds me of how way back in middle school i made a mmo-styled chat world in nothing but a shared google sheet. it lasted 2 weeks before the teachers had to ruin the fun for everyone (their excuse was that people typed slurs in it, but that's bs because I would erase their edits and permanently ban them within minutes). i would also share obfuscated links to games and such on a hidden page, good times.
Arguing about Google Docs will prepare them for the corporate world
WHY CANT WE JUST USE A WIKI???!211!
Sorry, I just had a flashback to my previous job where we used google docs.
we did this in the late 2000s when schools banned chat programs. Just working in Google docs teach.
Lol my kids did the same thing. Kinda proud of those lil hooligans.
+1 just for using "narc". Which by the way, reminds me every time, of the arcade game of the same name. Loved that game. 🚀
I did this in school like immediately lol
Same. Now I’m an adult who refuses to be constrained.
The only thing that taught me more about computers than trying to get porn is trying to pirate software.
And thus begins the three-legged race between imaged-based age verification and kids. (Prediction: the kids will win, but it will take the other side a looooong time to admit it.)
The winners will be the middle men selling fixes for the fixes.
Lmao I didn't had "bypassing corpo surveillance with a vtuber software" on my 2026 bingo
The companies get to fulfill their legal obligation, and the kids who can figure it out unlock the reward of an uncensored community. No one’s IDs are compromised in the process.
Win / win?
Stupid people will still be either censored or get their info leaked, and we have to live in a society with them.
Think about the poor politicians /s
Did these people forget Vtubers exist? Using a camera/Vr goggles to map one face to another? It's just going to need a phone app, a good 3d model and shader generator, and a big screen and you can be whoever you want.
Even faster if they use AI filters.
Have they learned nothing since people used screenshots of death stranding the first this technology was used on a major platform?
If it works with such basic 3d models then what is stopping people from using an ai generated or stolen picture?
Kinda makes me think the goal is not to keep kids safe, its to avoid accountability when kids end up not being safe.
It was not screenshots. The entire point of the Death Stranding thing was that you had a live camera feed of a face that passes the "liveliness" checks that prevent you from using static pictures.
Oh that detail is a TIL
I saw someone painted their thumb with basic facial lineament and they move their thumb when the prompt asks for it. It guesses that as 13-15 years old, even though the paint has a beard. lol
FOSS
Pick the best replacement option and run with it.
You gotta sell your friends and/or fam on it, though
The issue here is going to be discord users picking one, en masse.
Cool that it is possible but I rather ditch Discord when this is forced upon me.
how about just NOT using discord?
Someone had made a bypass hack that didn't even need 3D anything, only generated metadata, but the ID vendor has patched it: https://age-verifier.kibty.town/
That‘s honestly less surprising or impressive than people using Death Stranding for that.
Good. And lets hope it's not even the only one.