What if what I’m looking for is an article I can’t read without subscribing, removing my adblock, and/or accepting a bunch of cookies? Or one that sends me away entirely because that’s easier than being GDPR-compliant? Surely you’d click on those results.

Many of the elderly don’t know how to use their phones well, but most (from my experience, not actual data) can use BankID without issue because it’s simple to use. Before BankID they used much fussier code-based authenticators, so I think most people old enough to remember that are happy for modern convenience.

But a lot of web- and app-based services are less accessible for them. Finding out the bus times, navigating health services, and paying bills are often not available through traditional low-tech means. They also have the problem of not understanding why their old phone suddenly doesn’t work anymore. (They just took down the 2G network, for instance, and BankID no longer supports Android 9 and lower, if I’m remembering the right version.)

On most public transport nowadays it’s impossible to buy a ticket while boarding, but there isn’t so much as an automated ticket machine anywhere anymore. There are very nice customer service centers at central stations, but that doesn’t help the people trying to get to the central station.

There are a lot of problems, but I don’t think BankID is causing the most egregious ones. It’s a problem if you can’t access online banking because you can’t use the software to log in, but it’s even more of a problem if you don’t have the alternative of physical banking because society is cashless. It should be made more possible to live without digital services and smartphones even though I personally enjoy them.

It’s a pain in the ass if you don’t have access for whatever reason, yeah. A lot of that could be alleviated by government policies though. I don’t think it should be legal for public services to refer you to their website or app when you’re asking for help in-person. There’s also no laws against businesses refusing cash, and the banks keep removing ATMs, so it’s getting harder to manage without relying on a phone. I like e-ID, but I don’t like removing traditional human interaction. Kind of like how I love 5G cellphones and hate that they keep removing services like landlines and 2G. Low-tech is vital sometimes.

I’m not familiar with those and would be interested to learn what’s bad about them.

Yeah, I’ve noticed that the elderly here tend to opt for physical bus cards rather than using the app, and I often help them with bus times since all the signage has been phased out. I really think there ought to be more accessibility laws; it’s not good for anyone if people are losing their independence.

I hope I haven’t given the impression that I don’t take your experience seriously. I only ask questions to understand things better.

Would having the option to use a personal passphrase in lieu of the usual e-id solve your problem entirely, or would further measures be needed?

I’m having trouble imagining how this makes anything more difficult than a traditional password setup. Can you please explain?

I know there’s issues surrounding its use, but solving those issues involves changing other policies, not getting rid of e-identification. For example, allowing someone to access their medical records in person instead of demanding they use the website, a problem which would persist with a username and password.

I guess, but I’ve gone without BankID for about month previously. (It was my own fault for procrastinating multiple things.) You don’t need it; it’s just very convenient.

I’m having difficulty envisioning a malicious update. There’s a lot of transparency and regulations.

If you’re in Sweden you’ll be glad to know Sverige-ID is coming this December.

2FA is the opposite of a single point of failure though. In order to impersonate you someone has to have access to your authentication device and your master password. There are no passwords to remember or get leaked/stolen, and you still have traditional identification and a physical backup in the form of codes or an authentication device.

In Sweden it’s like a minute of your time to set up a new phone, or at worst a trip to the bank if you lost your authenticator.

It also has a screen showing what information or authorization is being requested so that it’s much harder to get scammed.

There are also child gambling machines, like crane games, coin pushers, or that one with the moving light. I don’t get why stuff like that is okay. I’m not defending loot boxes, but I do think it’s really weird to single them out. Why don’t they just work to pass a law which bans all of them?

I found a lot of the formatting choices to be hostile, and I wasn’t at all invested in the narrative, so I dropped it. The intro being all “This book is really spooky, you guys. It’s going to do a Cthulu on your brain,” was incredibly off-putting.

I agree that the style is alluring. I imagine there’s a significant degree of added difficulty in getting a book published with unique and varied formatting, especially where color is made meaningful. I’d like to see more books like it.

The reason it’s best not to know much about this book is because it’s like a puzzle game. The events and setting are kind of surreal and don’t immediately make sense, and it’s a lot of fun to be constantly thinking about possible hows and whys of everything.

I read White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link about the same time I read Piranesi, and I think they go well together as surreal fiction which is neither “lol random xD” nor pretentious.

I’m on Summit and it’s obvious from your post title and screenshot in my feed that this will be you presenting some kind of website or software. When clicked, the actual thread has your main post written out nicely.

I think if a filter like what’s described is on its way, it’s very poorly thought-out. Many interesting topics will include images; an album cover when discussing a band, your cat when asking for advice about said cat, etc. It’s also fairly normal on Lemmy to add alt-text of images as plain text in the main post, so a filter would either include such posts as not image-only or exclude posts like yours. Seems like a bad system. I should think it’s better for users to block meme comms.

The Mozilla Foundation is non-profit, but the Mozilla Corporation is for-profit.

I remember hearing something like it’s difficult to impossible for foreign doctors to get jobs in Canada. Is that why? The plan is to keep out or at least oppress Indians?

How did we get rid of Nazis the first time?

My T-shirts all have the tag at the bottom of the left seam.

Coughing can’t possibly be a symptom of any illness because I sometimes cough without being sick.