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Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. (youtu.be)
submitted 19 hours ago by qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TLDW:

Brazil is requiring OS level age verification by march 17th, 2026.

New York about to vote on a law that would "require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation."

In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 19 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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?" ❌

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 11 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

Load “*”,8,1

Stop it. You guys are making me feel young.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

All I'm seeing is an obj in a dotted frame.

[–] TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

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.

[–] timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 2 points 6 hours ago

I seem to recall that if the disk had copy protection you could also use this to simulate an earthquake as the 1541 threw its heads against the stops with all its might...

Happy days!