Lemmy users upvoting Brian Lunduke is surprising. He’s very right wing from what I remember
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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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.
Wow they really are just pushing it now lol.
Interesting discussion on this from yesterday on the NixOS forums:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/compliance-with-u-s-age-verification-laws/75791
can we stop linking to lunduke (he’s a transphobe chud)
Who wants this?
Christians. Republicans. ICE. MAGA.
What about the UK, Australia and the European Union, then?
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).
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.
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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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.
Yeah, this does not sound like it's going to make our children any safer.
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.
The irony knows no bounds, the one half decent reason age verification could exists for is so these companies have no more excuses to ignore coppa because now they can just pretend everyone is a consenting adult.
The fact that there will be a signal implying a user is an adult will give all sorts of bad actors plausible deniability, perhaps even legal protection, for exploiting children, who will of course be bypassing it
So this is the thing I'll eventually end up in jail for bypassing. I coul've sworn it would be drugs.
Oh well.
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.
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.
Thats my plan.
Pretty much. They‘re essentially outlawing privacy so there will be no point in resisting. This is worse than Orwellian.
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I guess a broken clock is right twice a day. Bitter Lunduke don't fool yourself this guy is a tool
Unless it's digital.
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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Accountless linux distros incoming
Can’t wait for distros to post a disclaimer that this software is strictly intended only for use on the moon.
Better yet. Say that the software isn't intended for any use at all and they don't allow you to download it, but then leave an open directory with the images
"By downloading this software, you agree you are a very naughty boy or girl."
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Pretty soon you'll be hearing folks say things like "why are you worried if you don't have anything to hide" as if personal privacy has no value whatsoever. It's a slippery slope!!!
You close the door when you poop and you don't broadcast your WhatsApp messages on time square.
@TriplePlaid@wetshav.ing @qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de @technology@lemmy.world
For me, a Brazilian, there's something I must hide if I want to be employable: my occultist practices, my religion. I'm a worshiper of Lilith, surrounded by mostly Christian people. I literally heard "faux-jokes" (when people want to condemn someone, but wrapping the condemnation as a joke) tying my belief to "ending up in hell".
Even though my legal name isn't difficult to find through my pseudonym, you can imagine why I use a pseudonym to openly express my religion. And once digital activity is tied to my CPF (Brazilian citizen/legal identity), and I'm definitely not buying the "anonymized checking" arguments, suddenly potential employers and buyers/merchants will know I "worship the devil" and will have yet another reason to refuse hiring me or buying/selling things from/to me.
Also, some of Lilith imagery and stories involve content which is sensitive, subjected to those very "age check" laws, further making it necessary for me to comply to "age checks" whenever I want to read or write, observe or do drawings about the fundamental deity I worship.
But according to certain people, "having something to hide = must be a criminal!!!". Because they're likely followers of some mainstream religion which is not socially persecuted, or religion isn't something significant in their lives.
Seriously. I'm truly tired of this world.
Thank you for telling you story. I'm sorry that you are in the position you are in where you can't freely be yourself around others.
I have nothing to hide. I also have nothing to show you.
It's not a slippery slope, it's a drop into a pit fall.
please don't get this guy any attention. he is a far right conspiracy theorist.
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