Fuuuuck with apple doing this, I wonder how long we have until this BS enters Android and Linux Kernel.
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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Well when we have to comply we can make a build flag everyone shut toggle off...
I suggest simply never complying. Anyone who does is a traitor. This is FOSS, they have no control over us, ZERO power to enforce compliance.
They should just be done with it and implant an id chip at birth
Data freely available to our capitalistic gods and politicians
Could someone share a non alarmist take here? I have seen posts elsewhere that apple's "using information we already have to assign you an age-range" is better than other more invasive methods.
I (regrettably) acquiesced when prompted to use this method in order to access health insurance app. Am I cooked? permanent all powerful spyware time?
Presumably if there’s a switch to turn it on then there’s also a switch to turn it back off again.
Good, I am waiting on my brand new Fairphone 6.
I find it odd to protect children they will stalk the hell out of us but won’t arrest known pedophiles …
I hate the world
It's not to protect children though. It's for political surveillance.
Exactly. Governments around the world, including the U.S., of course, have made it crystal clear through their actions that they don't give a fuck about protecting children.
Better to just hate the whole Epstein Class. They trash the world for everyone else..
We’ve had a name for them for the last 200 years: the capitalist class, or to be more precise, the haute bourgeoisie. The 1% of the 1%.
In America.
If everyone voting for these age requirements don't also vote to require you to use an ID to unlock the safety on a gun or remove a knife from the knife rack, they aren't voting on this to protect the children.
Knives and guns need age verification before someone seeing Kate Upton showing her breasts.
Im going side with none of it needs age verification, and all of it needs parental guidance
At least knives have a use outside of killing
Yep
Google tried a few years back but there was pushback. Google will slowly boil the frog tho.
Well, my 2G Nokia candy bar phone will come in handy
For what?//can't even make a call on it as 2g is shut off or well be Shirley depending whee you live.
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I don't give a shit what children see.
They'll live.
Stop spying on adults.
I mean some shit you find online is pretty grim but when I was a kid I knew the internet was for adults and didn't expect everything to be catered to me. Now the status quo seems to be "every website must be kid/advertiser friendly and PG13 by default, everything else must be locked behind a verification prompt". How did we get here?
It's just a facade to justify mining more data for power, influence and money.
Simple as that.
We let 5 companies control the internet. Instead of being the distributed thing it was dreamed up to be we allowed it to consolidate.
And it's not like servers have gotten harder to run! Pirates serve terabytes of data that's straight-up illegal! Your fuckin' commercial connection should be plenty for any damn thing you want.
This is insane. They have to view your images to deem of they are explicit...
Basically a year away from a universal internet ID that will track all movements and can be restricted if your government doesn't like you.
To get a sim card in Australia you need to show identification. There is no anonymity.
This also means they are tracking all the websites you are going to.
They already are. Well depends on who they are I guess but someone is.
Apple already views your images for child porn.
Do they though? As a side note, I read the documentation for the proposed system of scanning and it was actually really well designed for privacy. The problem was if they were forced to expand the scope to include other material such as, for example, proof of protest against a regime.
Wanted to view*
They probably do it for people like Donald and all his Epstein friends to save and pre order.
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If the West follows into the footsteps of the propaganda they are spreading against China, I'd rather go live in China because at least there people don't live paycheck to paycheck despite working multiple jobs. Every accusation against China was a confession.
Same with DPRK.
The example of the age of your account made me realize I’m old
Wow I just checked when the first purchase was made on my Apple account, turns out it’s old enough to vote
After commercial OS have age verification they will remove it from the programs because the age was already verified, right?
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When I first decided to switch to Linux, I started exclusively using apps that were available on Linux. This way I was able to gradually transition my workflows one app at a time without any rush. When I was ready to install Linux, I did it on a new computer so I still had access to everything on the old computer and there was no risk of going computer-less if the installation went sideways.
Also, keep in mind that Asahi only works on M1 and M2 Macs. (If you have an old Intel Mac, you can just run normal Linux without Asahi)
Oh and Veronica Explains has a great video about her experience with Asahi.
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Thank you, Tim Apple, for making 2026 the year of the Linux desktop (but not necessarily the Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint desktop).
(but not necessarily the Ubuntu, Fedora, or Mint desktop).
Rut. Thanks for ruining my day, sigh. That shit better be a patch away from removal / spoofing...
I’ll figure out a way to bypass this or switch to Linux entirely.
And then probably end up in a camp.
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