Astro Hacker News - GitHub's take on age assurance for developers

widforss |next [-]

When they write "GitHub", I guess they mean "Microsoft"? Maybe this is the hero we deserve, but it's not the hero we need.

nchmy |next |previous [-]

Can someone please ELI5?

rjsw |root |parent [-]

Go and play outside.

Animats |previous [-]

Maybe age assurance should be in the display. The display's camera has to verify the age of the viewer to display adult content.

That might be simpler. Estimating age with a camera is already common in China. Cameras are cheap, and displays now probably have enough processing power to do it locally.

Will work for TVs, too.

rjsw |root |parent [-]

Kids have already found that drawing a false mustache on themself works to defeat age checks using a camera.