If I was a foreigner I would not be allowed in at all. Because I talk mad shit.

Nah, they can get rekt.

Or me from ever going back.

'Please explain this Taco meme about Dear Leader....'

One of the many reasons I'm not likely to ever visit the USA.

Ah the monthly chat control attempt

"LIfe's Good", more like "Life's Grim".

Those are administrative subpoenas, not the real deal. It’s basically like saying: I know I don’t have any actual authority to do this, but would you please do as I say because I have this scary looking paper I drew all by myself.

Between this and Chat Control, the EU is getting darker.

Not at those prices!

No shit. That's the point.

Fine.

I'll just script it to change randomly every day.

So it begins. Right now it just asks you your age, and doesn't do anything else. For now.

Eventually we will be paying a subscription fee not to be tracked. Only to find out that they still do track and will sell the backlog the moment we stop paying. Unless a data breach happens first.

I'd argue that the scam is less about selling data, and more about creating a world in which everyone is tracked all the time. Turning it into a for-profit business model is the thing that will drive the adoption and application of the technology. It's bait for people who put greed above everything else, who will wrap the whole world in chains, for money.

Age verification is just a scam to sell data.

It seems like some key piece of information is missing here and I suspect that’s why they didn’t demonstrate the full exploit. With all the billions of apps and websites capable of being run in all their infinite combinations how does the pretrained system make the determination of what is being run with any accuracy, especially without knowing far more about the specific performance of the hardware it’s being run on? Given that this works best on people who leave things running it sounds like you would need to reprofile the performance every time a large program is closed. It seems to me that this would work to let you know that some small set of popular programs and sites were likely being run but not with any real confidence.

Use duck duck go, there's a satisfying fire animation every time you burn tabs.

One of the best ways to prevent FROST attacks is to close tabs as soon as they’re no longer needed.

But those are my emotional support tabs.

Guess I'm going to dive deeper into self hosting linkwarden

Which, to me at least, was and still is their whole objective.

They don't give a fuck about (other people's) kids or our safety. All they want is to make the world a better place for them by keeping us under a permanent leash, and make it impossible for anyone of us (not them) to whisper anything privately into anyone's ear.

That will become serfdom 2.0 (for the first version, check "feudalism" during European Middle-Age), and it will be reaching unheard of levels of servitude, control, and abuse... Something that most of us will have happily encouraged and made possible, if only by using their products (and by electing their politicians puppets) instead of telling them 'Thx, but no! Even wrapped in a shiny package with a cute bow I don't feel like eating your shit.'

That's the point though

We will have zero privacy at all if they aren't fuckign stopped. Privacy will be a privilege of the wealthy.

Perhaps a furrowed brow and a stern letter is in order?

So you'd need an ID to buy a phone to stop scammers even though the scammers live in countries that don't have that restriction and can keep doing things exactly the same. What's next? I'll need an ID to put gas in my car so they can stop illegal immigrants from driving?

Just like with "fight csam" ... always just an excuse

Senator Wyden can read anything he wants (including classified info) into the record on the senate floor and no consequences will follow because of the speech and debate clause of the constitution.

Why can't he just state what the issue is if it's bad? I swear every fucking politician is a coward.