Technology

If the speedrun strategy is "introduce a stupid law, wait for everyone to go 'holy shit none of this can be realistically implemented in this timeframe', wait for OS vendors to just ban the use of the OSes in the country, watch the local industry as a whole to rally and petition the government to stop the madness before there's a new dark age, repeal the clearly stupid law", all before the California law comes to effect - I've got to say it's a bold strategy and we'll see how it plays out.

Edit: Also, not going to upvote a Lunduke video - I'm glad he crams every bit of substantial information in the thumbnails so I can just not listen to him at all

The cyberpunk dystopia times arrive at last.

Can't wait for mohawks to come back in style 🌈🤘

There must be some kind of higher-managed plan on this man. Everything seems to be so sudden and coordinated it just cant be a coincidence. I am NOT giving my ID to use my computer

who exactly gonna stop me from downloading an operating system from massgrave or linuxtracker? bunch of burocratic morons.

My router hasn't confirmed shes over 14, please advice, it's getting probed by the USA president.

With my YT, Steam, and email account being old enough to drink, will they till force me to upload ID?

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?" ❌

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

Maybe he would be onboard if it was called "age verification, to make sure you're not exposed to trans people"...

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.

can we stop linking to lunduke (he’s a transphobe chud)

Interesting discussion on this from yesterday on the NixOS forums:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/compliance-with-u-s-age-verification-laws/75791

13 days 😂 Tell me you don't know how software development works or how operating systems are developed without telling me.

Wow they really are just pushing it now lol.

Who wants this?

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.

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.

They are taking the power of personal computing away from us...