Do not link Lunduke in here. He is, literally, an insane bigot.
It does not matter how factual or not the particular thing he is reporting on in this particular instance is.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Do not link Lunduke in here. He is, literally, an insane bigot.
It does not matter how factual or not the particular thing he is reporting on in this particular instance is.
Thanks for sharing these news with us yeah I’m not going back to Ubuntu after this (not it’s a great OS to begin with) but before that we had to deal with snaps bogging up the entire system with updates galore anyway hopefully we can learn this lesson about not using mainstream software to control our data
theres no reason to post lunduke. surely we can get our info from literally any other source
Man, they really want to find out who they need to murder, don't they?
Because that's the bottom line. Everybody understands that, right?
AI is all about replacing as many human jobs with automation as possible, and the Age/ID laws are about tracking down anyone who complains about it.
This is what we've known was coming for decades. It's finally here.
I will literally pull my AMD socket A mobo out of the box and run windows XP before I comply with this bullshit.
Or switch to one of the growing number of Linux distros who have taken the stance of "not a fucking chance are we complying with that idiocy" and then just hope where you live doesn't pass a law like this and those distros are forced to region block downloads for you 👍
There's also the worry that if enough places push something like this through, could end up being a case of a vast swath of the internet will just refuse to work without receiving an approved "Age Assurance Signal"....
Or the bigger worry that this is the beginning of the end of proper human interaction with the internet. Access and child protection laws become so strict that only chat bot agents are legally authorised to use the internet and we all become beholden to these programs for everything from looking up a recipe to requesting access to research papers to help support your masters thesis or fucking whatever.
In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.
COPPA prevents companies from collecting data on minors without parental consent.
Sounds like the Epstein Class is still in charge of the FTC.
Feels weird upvoting this comment. I have to remind myself. It's not you I'm mad at. You're not the one doing this. You're just the messanger.
Sounds like the Epstein Class just wants to know where the children are and make it legal to groom them.
The irony knows no bounds, the one half decent reason age verification could exists for is so these companies have no more excuses to ignore coppa because now they can just pretend everyone is a consenting adult.
In fact this is a person identification
There must be some kind of higher-managed plan on this man. Everything seems to be so sudden and coordinated it just cant be a coincidence. I am NOT giving my ID to use my computer
A conspiracy of global elites? Pffft.
That's crazytalk.
It's not like Peter Thiel ,one time president and current member of the BILDERBERG steering committee , and a bunch of other dudes who worked at PayPal are solely responsible for the trajectory of technology...
Or like some forum on economics somewhere in the world would coordinate economics, and make some crazy plan with a super unbelievably literal name like agenda 2030 with the dude at the head saying "you'll own nothing and you will be happy"
I mean... Crazy. Right.
The rich should have already been filleted and cooked.
Haha imagine if they were all pedofiles, rapists and total degenerates too. haha. HA HA. No way, too crazy right? Pandoras box is open.
I know that at a basic psychological level, a person generally must be some form of antisocial/sociopath/psychopath,narcissist to become a billionaire.
Does becoming a billionaire simply allow for/encourage more extreme levels of behaviors or are they predisposed?
Is it a rite of passage/secret handshake, or is it just "perks" of being evil?
Consumer tech fucking sucks. We tried you guys. Time to call it quits on the internet and personal computing. Humans ruin everything.
Yeah, I'm kind of excited to explore what kind of activities outside has come up with since I was a teenager. Gonna have a lot of free time now that computing won't be fun anymore.
If the speedrun strategy is "introduce a stupid law, wait for everyone to go 'holy shit none of this can be realistically implemented in this timeframe', wait for OS vendors to just ban the use of the OSes in the country, watch the local industry as a whole to rally and petition the government to stop the madness before there's a new dark age, repeal the clearly stupid law", all before the California law comes to effect - I've got to say it's a bold strategy and we'll see how it plays out.
Edit: Also, not going to upvote a Lunduke video - I'm glad he crams every bit of substantial information in the thumbnails so I can just not listen to him at all
They are taking the power of personal computing away from us...
Pretty much. They‘re essentially outlawing privacy so there will be no point in resisting. This is worse than Orwellian.
I feel like there is a line coming with hardware and software and that will be the last of it's type as the move towards subscription based services is forced onto everyone. Its a shame people won't vote with their wallets. It just means I'll have my basement crammed with old tech and I'll go full old man mode and stop keeping up with technological progress.

The cyberpunk dystopia times arrive at last.
Can't wait for mohawks to come back in style 🌈🤘
Remember: it's up to us to make the cool cyberpunk stuff a reality. The bad stuff is coming no matter what.
Make sure to be clear that fake IDs are things you can make and use to bypass this. If using fake names on the internet isn't unethical to you all why are Fake IDs as a subject avoided like the plague?
can we stop linking to lunduke (he’s a transphobe chud)
13 days 😂 Tell me you don't know how software development works or how operating systems are developed without telling me.
Unless someone already has age verification ready to go and wanted to be a monopoly for a while.
It's gonna be fun when people are sitting around a campfire talking about how bad tech ceos, wall street backed corporations, enshittification, corrupt politicians and fascism all led to the extinction of the tech golden age... as they prepare their spears to fight the next wave of machines coming to harvest them.
So this is the thing I'll eventually end up in jail for bypassing. I coul've sworn it would be drugs.
Oh well.
One question:
"On your first computer, how did you open a program?
Load "*",8,1 ✅
program.exe ✅
Double click the icon ✅
"Program? Is that like an app?" ❌
The word app still makes me cringe hard.
My router hasn't confirmed shes over 14, please advice, it's getting probed by the USA president.
Pretty soon you'll be hearing folks say things like "why are you worried if you don't have anything to hide" as if personal privacy has no value whatsoever. It's a slippery slope!!!
When they make it law to have age verification in your operating system, only outlaws will have operating systems without age verification.
I guess I'm an outlaw then. Enjoy your visit to the wild west, we will always have illegal operating systems aplenty.
Get fucked.
Accountless linux distros incoming
Can’t wait for distros to post a disclaimer that this software is strictly intended only for use on the moon.
Rename the ISOs to BMP images and say they're art instead.
Lemmy users upvoting Brian Lunduke is surprising. He’s very right wing from what I remember
People might not know who he is anymore. since his veer to the right hes become a lot less relevant to the linux community
I've literally never heard of this guy before.
How on earth are they going to enforce this in smaller IOT chips? I just got an esp32-c3 for like $1.50. I highly doubt that things is able to run whatever bloatware they are going to require.