With my YT, Steam, and email account being old enough to drink, will they till force me to upload ID?
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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Yes. Because this is not about verifying your age; that's just the pretext. This is about identifying you and remotely being able to lock you out of the devices you longer own and control.
But then again, if you use YouTube and Steam, you're not in control or own anything, so...
My router hasn't confirmed shes over 14, please advice, it's getting probed by the USA president.
Wait, the Dear Leader's member is RJ45-sized? Wow, that's even more pathetic than I had anticipated.
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?" ❌
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.
Maybe he would be onboard if it was called "age verification, to make sure you're not exposed to trans people"...
I've heard about gringos saying all of this about Brazil forcing age verification, but I literally cannot find any article in any Brazilian news website talking about this. So either this entire thing is a hallucination or someone got the wrong info.
Lemmy users upvoting Brian Lunduke is surprising. He’s very right wing from what I remember
He's nuts, but even nuts can do something well time to time. Just look at pistachios.
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.
Interesting discussion on this from yesterday on the NixOS forums:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/compliance-with-u-s-age-verification-laws/75791
Wow they really are just pushing it now lol.
can we stop linking to lunduke (he’s a transphobe chud)
He's a small hat zionest
Who wants this?
Christians. Republicans. ICE. MAGA.
ice?
What about the UK, Australia and the European Union, then?
The evil Christians don’t stop their nonsense at borders. That shit is universal, man.
Groups that want to remove anonymity from the internet.
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.
CTO at Microslop: QUICK, VIBE CODE THAT AGE VERIFICATION, WE GOTTA BE FIRST ON THIS
[turns the data center cooling pipes from the nearest freshwater lake up to 11]
This is my theory about California and age verification. As soon as alternative mobile operating system are getting better there’s suddenly a law about operating systems requiring age verification? Maybe I’m just paranoid.
HMMMMM kinda sus tho ngl (I'm serious)
looks at Palantir
And Persona (it's from the same guy).
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.
Yeah, this does not sound like it's going to make our children any safer.
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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.
Will be selectively enforced and they'll gradually tighten down over time.
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
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They are taking the power of personal computing away from us...
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.
Too bad you will need hard drives for that. And all the rest.
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Pretty much. They‘re essentially outlawing privacy so there will be no point in resisting. This is worse than Orwellian.
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So this is the thing I'll eventually end up in jail for bypassing. I coul've sworn it would be drugs.
Oh well.
If you're going to jail anyway, why go to jail for something lame?
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.
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.
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