Nope, pretty certain everyone who voted for that fucker do believe that it’s perfectly okay what he did.

Or is it the other way around?

Republicans take hypocrisy to a whole new level.

I’m lost, and most likely just stupid. But, are you saying that if I am an Indigenous Canadian like yourself, then I can rape you? I.e. that implies that indigenous Canadians rape each other a lot?

If you are Indigenous Canadian like me … then you are free to rape

I don’t think that’s what you meant, but that’s what it sounds like.

As in crude oil, or more like cooking oil?

“You will now have digital ID” and “You will now have to scan your ID at store” are two completely different things.

Correct! Different things for now. But can you guess will come next?

This just makes it so much easier to take that next step.

You know governments don’t turn fascist in one move? But we are 100% getting closer and closer.

Or are you so naive to trust your government to never decide to take that next step and require you to scan your id everywhere?

I mean, it’s just your phone that you carry around all the time anyways, not like they’re asking you to bring your passport or national id card, right? They’ll just record that, but no worries mate, as long as you’re not anti-fascist, you’re safe!

There are a lot of “ifs” and mostly potential downsides. So what are the benefits to this?

Would businesses really accept having to use an ID that might not work if there’s a spotty data connection

Have you ever had issues paying with your credit card due to a spotty data connection? Why would that be an issue with scanning your ID? Especially if the government forces businesses to do this.

My read of it is that it’s intended, in most cases, to work like a railcard or digital bus pass does currently in the UK.

Well yeah, that’s to begin with. But it also gives a lot of potential for further surveillance, and for what benefits? Do the benefits really outweigh the cons? Especially when the world is turning fascist? I don’t think so.

How many times have you gone “oh damn I wish it was easier proving my identity than showing my passport or driving licence”?

I’m not on tik tok. I’m not on Sora.

If people don’t stop supporting real artists, then no, creativity will not die.

I still dream on weed often, though not as lucid as sober

First of all, UK does not have personal IDs, just the good old passports.

Second of all, when you buy alcohol in a shop, do you actually need to scan your personal ID or just show your age on it?

Well, with digital IDs you WILL HAVE TO scan them whether you like it or not, when you need to prove you age or identity, that’s how they work, and that’s how they can track people vs. traditional IDs which are just looked at and sometimes they will scan a physical copy of the id on paper, that’s all.

I’ve only ever seen these scanners in airports. Do you really have them in shops where you’re from??

Online activity is already being tracked since the advent of Facebook and maybe earlier. Yeah, nothing new.

But most people are missing the point behind digital IDs and the pushback.

With digital IDs it will be possible to track people’s activity OFFLINE. Or are you so naive to believe that won’t happen?

Wanna buy alcohol? Let’s scan your ID, record all your personal information, record what you were buying, record the time and location! BAM! You’ve just been tracked offline.

Are you an antifascist terrorist? Wee woo wee woo! That’s the sound the fascist police will make when they come to arrest you for that antifa post you made, because they have been alerted of your location in real time when you were buying some beer.

Having them does not mean you have to use them all the time.

Says who? How long until that changes?

I think you’re connecting digital IDs with people’s online activity.

Online activity is already being tracked since the advent of Facebook and maybe earlier. As you said ao yourself.

With digital IDs it will be possible to track people’s activity offline.

Wanna buy alcohol? Let’s scan your ID, record all your personal information, record what you were buying, record the time and location! BAM! You’ve just been tracked offline.

Are you an antifascist terrorist? Wee woo wee woo! That’s the sound the fascist police will make when they come to arrest you for that antifa post you made, because they have been alerted of your location in real time.

How will I benefit from having a digital ID? I won’t.

So why give away my privacy and gain nothing?

Sounds unnecessary and therefore stupid.

The equivalent apps here in Australia don’t have the capability to track or surveil you.

And then you say:

…generate a time based token that can be scanned and verified.

There’s your tracking, you’ve just been scanned and both your location and timestamp have now been recorded by the scanning app, and all the other data associated with whatever you were doing, like buying alcohol or entering a nightclub.

I don’t really see it as a surveillance over-reach.

Just because you don’t see it happening now, it doesn’t mean it could not be used against people to persecute them, especially in fascist countries, where this would be a perfect tool for tracking people and mass surveillance.

Maybe if the world wasn’t shifting to the fascism it would be a good thing. But in a fascist world, digital IDs will be used to persecute people.

Leas government surveillance is always a good thing in a fascist world.

allowing them to offer AI bots to companies and governments to replace human workers

If that’s what he expects will happen then he is out of touch with AI and its capabilities. AI nowhere near being capable of completely replacing humans.

In fact the main reason for the AI bubble is because billions have been dumped into it expecting it will be capable of replacing humans, but all it’s really good at is making AI slop.

The only jobs it has kind of started replacing, but not really - more like transforming them - are software engineer jobs.

When the economy collapses, it will affect ALL businesses, and all kind of people will lose jobs, from software engineers to teachers to analysts. And none of those jobs can be fully replaced by AI, or it would have happened already.

Bezos is a fucking clown.

You can’t criminalize someone’s political beliefs

Clearly you can if you’re a fascist scum. I’m not surprised at all and things will only get worse if no one stands up to him.

Something that can handle heavy loads, e.g. thousands or millions of people accessing and using the app at the same time. Handling gigabytes or even terabytes of data without crashing.

Something that can easily scale to meet new demands.

Something that is secure, and won’t be hacked immediately.

Something that is thoroughly tested, polished and has no showstopper or major bugs, ideally no known bugs at all.

But it all really depends on the app you’re building. Offline apps are different to web apps and have different non-functional requirements. But generally, yes, it has to be good enough to be deployed and used by the military, if you prefer the term “military grade”.

Maybe they stored backups on-site

Build production level apps. Could be any app idea you like, or just pick something that will challenge your current knowledge and skills and force you to improve.

Nobody forced them to quit the UK, there are no laws saying they can’t operate in the UK. So what legal reasons?