Very insightful and well written! These Age verification laws are going too far and were never about the kids to being with.

These days a computer is pretty much another lobe of your brain. What happens when we actually have computers embedded inside of us? Are they going to restrict access to our own cognition?

It's crazy how much a single state in a single country can potentially dictate how we use our own tech

Should this method of age attestation become the standard, apps and websites will not assume liability when a signal is not provided and assume the lowest age bracket. Any Linux distribution that does not provide an age bracket signal will result in a nerfed internet for their users

Fuck just as I commented yesterday about this BS entering Linux kernel, it can become new reality

This is going to end up in the Supreme Court as a First Amendment challenge because if code is speech, then age verification is code and therefore compelled speech by the government.

Anybody who complies with this is a fucking sheep. We need people who will stand up and strip age verification code out of any Linux operating system that dares to implement it. For example, if Ubuntu implements it, we need somebody to stand up, strip the verification code out of it, and then release it as Ubuntu free or whatever.

This article was so well-written that I was briefly surprised to encounter the term "nerfed" in the middle. I guess it's common parlance in tech circles at this point.

Last week in Cabo, Mexico, an adult friend thought it would be hilarious to add El Mencho to a picture of our dinner outing, text it to his parents, and tell them we met a new “friend”. He asked ChatGPT to add El Mencho to a photo. It refused. My under-13 child said “oh, I got this”, found a photo of El Mencho, asked ChatGPT to add the person from the photo to the dinner party photo and voilà, we’re enjoying drinks with El Mencho. Our friend's parents asked what’s wrong with him. I was an impressed Dad.

This is indeed some very touching story, dinner with a leader of CJNG? At that point I would ask how the hell do you even know his name but

Louis Rossmann does a pretty good job of covering the choice between complying and going out of business from his own experience. https://youtube.com/watch?v=eCtWeNwOb9w

That's a lot of fancy words to say they're bending the knee

https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html