technology

The pedophile elite demands your age for your safety.

What the fuck is up with the ruling class's push on age verification on everything the past year? Does anyone actually know what the deal is?

My brain goes to the theory that they want to create undodgable ways to surveil everyone after the Luigi incident so everyone's ID (and photo) is on record, making them easier to track - I trust these people not storing identifiable information as much as I trust my phone to not be recording 24/7. The fact that Palantir has started to spread like mold in every industry with sizable information databases too.

This OS causes cancer in the state of california

• Mint probably

California has for as long as I can remember had this weird unique brand of liberal authoritarianism. I'm so glad I left.

Lookin forward to scrolling past the CA-compliant linux isos, lmao

late to work again because my toaster wont sign in without my yubi key and the touch controls are all greasy

No need to do (1) if there's no "account setup"

Kinda excited for my Linux distro to be illegal. I read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow as a kid and it left a big impact

Pcgamer citing lunduke is cringe, literally the worst person you know and not an expert on anything.

This law is so unenforceable you could just call it anarcho capitalism. I can't wait for Californian liberals to enter the "Is it GNU, is it Linux or GNU/Linux/systemd/gnome|kde/Firefox" flamewars.

Wonder if Microslop will back-port this to Windows 10 because of the great opportunity to demand IDs and logging into a Microslop account on your machine.

Amazing how there is no good reason not to move US companies to Canada now

Can't wait for California Tech bros to cry when they tank their state's econony.

I need to find that picture of the tech bros looking like apes crying about their NFT's or whatever that silly fad was.

On its face, this seems actually fine. All it's REALLY mandating is that apps have a way to ask if the user is an adult or not. The burden of trust is placed on whoever sets up the OS, I.E. the parent, which is EXACTLY where it should be. No burden is placed on adults setting up usage for themselves. It's not even much of a privacy concern, given that setup doesn't require specifying age, but a general age bracket.

We'll have to see how this ends up getting implemented.

I retract my previous statement where I begrudgingly mentioned my California envy.

one of the few places where CHUDs don’t have TOTAL cultural hegemony

destroy the quality of life for their constituents because they’re bored.

Who the fuck ASKED for this?

Or else what? They can’t sell copies of Microsoft on the shelves at Best Buy? Lol. I mean I guess they might have this enforced in a way where laptops and prebuilts can’t have windows installed until it has age verification built in? Lol

bool is_adult() {
  return true;
}

so many 1927 users to appear

dramatic increase in LFS in california. youre not an os provider if youre just putting the pieces together for personal use. the real trouble will be if they bake this into the bios somehow

yeah but you know what doesn't require age verification? 😌

Sounds like a good time for a roll-your-own distro kit based on the Linux kernel.

Lol. Lmao.

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