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.

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.

Yeah, this does not sound like it's going to make our children any safer.

Sounds like the Epstein Class just wants to know where the children are and make it legal to groom them.

Unless someone already has age verification ready to go and wanted to be a monopoly for a while.

Yeah, the fact that I can wave to a cop walking out of a store where I just bought some pot, but might face massive fines for not doing age verification for a pong game I wrote is insane. I mean, I still want to be able to smoke my pot legally, but I also don't want to have to care about who plays pong.

If you're going to jail anyway, why go to jail for something lame?

It's not a slippery slope, it's a drop into a pit fall.

@TriplePlaid@wetshav.ing @qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de @technology@lemmy.worldFor me, a Brazilian, there's something I must hide if I want to be employable: my occultist practices, my religion. I'm a worshiper of Lilith, surrounded by mostly Christian people. I literally heard "faux-jokes" (when people want to condemn someone, but wrapping the condemnation as a joke) tying my belief to "ending up in hell". Even though my legal name isn't difficult to find through my pseudonym, you can imagine why I use a pseudonym to openly express my religion. And once digital activity is tied to my CPF (Brazilian citizen/legal identity), and I'm definitely not buying the "anonymized checking" arguments, suddenly potential employers and buyers/merchants will know I "worship the devil" and will have yet another reason to refuse hiring me or buying/selling things from/to me.Also, some of Lilith imagery and stories involve content which is sensitive, subjected to those very "age check" laws, further making it necessary for me to comply to "age checks" whenever I want to read or write, observe or do drawings about the fundamental deity I worship.But according to certain people, "having something to hide = must be a criminal!!!". Because they're likely followers of some mainstream religion which is not socially persecuted, or religion isn't something significant in their lives. Seriously. I'm truly tired of this world.

I have nothing to hide. I also have nothing to show you.

You close the door when you poop and you don't broadcast your WhatsApp messages on time square.

Can’t wait for distros to post a disclaimer that this software is strictly intended only for use on the moon.

Isn't Tails OS accountless? At least the non-persistent version.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5-lDJWCUAAwfya?format=jpg&name=small

Pedal powered microwave.

You're way too optimistic.

I'm putting my money on Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play.

Can't wait

Hardware that can be manufactured on larger nodes can't really be stopped, and the (black) market for both old and new free hardware will be big, considering all the things that will inevitably be banned. As always, don't comply in advance

Will be selectively enforced and they'll gradually tighten down over time.

Sounds like they make these laws specifically to arrest you.

"Woops, your dishwasher has no age verification, now we can arrest you and make you confess whatever we want"

Remember: it's up to us to make the cool cyberpunk stuff a reality. The bad stuff is coming no matter what.

Load “*”,8,1

Stop it. You guys are making me feel young.

Load "*",8,1 - However, this would not open a specific program, just the first file on the specified drive (if I remember correctly). For a specific program, you would have to name the program.

The word app still makes me cringe hard.

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.

He's nuts, but even nuts can do something well time to time. Just look at pistachios.

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.

Groups that want to remove anonymity from the internet.

Christians. Republicans. ICE. MAGA.

Honestly? I've done a lot of looking over the last few days and he's literally the only person I've found talking about the Brazilian law coming into effect in 12 days. If you have seen any coverage from anyone else, I would be really interested if you could pass a link my way.

Everyone panicking when this is exactly how it will go.