TLDW:
Brazil is requiring OS level age verification by march 17th, 2026.
New York about to vote on a law that would “require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation.”
In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.
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.
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
They are taking the power of personal computing away from us…
Pretty much. They‘re essentially outlawing privacy so there will be no point in resisting. This is worse than Orwellian.
They can pry it out of my cold dead hands
This will make it more anonymous because verification relies on a token defined in the OS rather than uploading identification.
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.
Pedal powered microwave.
You’re way too optimistic.
I’m putting my money on Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play.
13 days 😂 Tell me you don’t know how software development works or how operating systems are developed without telling me.
Accountless linux distros incoming
Isn’t Tails OS accountless? At least the non-persistent version.
Yes, even persistent isn’t really an account. It’s just a encrypted portion of the drive to store files between boots.
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
A conspiracy of global elites? Pffft.
That’s crazytalk.
It’s not like Peter Thiel ,one time president and current member of the BILDERBERG steering committee , and a bunch of other dudes who worked at PayPal are solely responsible for the trajectory of technology…
Or like some forum on economics somewhere in the world would coordinate economics, and make some crazy plan with a super unbelievably literal name like agenda 2030 with the dude at the head saying “you’ll own nothing and you will be happy”
I mean… Crazy. Right.
The rich should have already been filleted and cooked.
Haha imagine if they were all pedofiles, rapists and total degenerates too. haha. HA HA. No way, too crazy right? Pandoras box is open.
I know that at a basic psychological level, a person generally must be some form of antisocial/sociopath/psychopath,narcissist to become a billionaire.
Does becoming a billionaire simply allow for/encourage more extreme levels of behaviors or are they predisposed?
Is it a rite of passage/secret handshake, or is it just “perks” of being evil?
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
Everyone panicking when this is exactly how it will go.
Linus Torvalds is the closest thing Linux has to a manufacturer
Linux is just a kernel.
Redhat with fedora and steam with the arch based steam os will be the ones that have to implement it.
Adding that nonsense to enterprise Linux distros will be hilarious to watch.
And Steam can just sell blank hardware and let you install some distro you find on the Internet. Streetlight did that with one of their albums.
And what happens when someone forks fedora and removes it for their own machine. Who’s the manufacturer then?
I am pretty sure anyone will still be able to install a distro/fork from a free country, but steam is unlikely to go this route because convenience is part of the package. They may not even care to resist because they already ask your age for the steam store.
I am more curious what this will do for non standard devices with multiple users. Even kitchen equipment may run a derivative of linux these days and they don’t come with keyboard access.
I hadn’t even thought of those. Are Samsung fridges going to verify my age?
You will have to show ID to prove you are of age to drink if there is alcohol in it if you want to open it. No ID, no fridge access.
Sorry. You gotta go to jail now. Your toddler grabbed a juicy juice box from your smart refridgerator without being 18+.
The only solution is getting a smart fridge for each household member.
You’re probably writing that on a device that has a secure boot chain. So far it was there without strict enforcement, but once the manufacturers decide you only get your shit signed if you implement $ARBITRARY_ORWELLIAN_GOV_RULE, you’re pretty much fucked.
You mean I can voluntarily not participate in society?
BRB installing Linux everywhere.
If it doesn’t generate a token you won’t be able to access the site.
You and the 13 people that upvoted you have zero understanding of what an operating system is.
lol okay
theres no reason to post lunduke. surely we can get our info from literally any other source
Honestly? I’ve done a lot of looking over the last few days and he’s literally the only person I’ve found talking about the Brazilian law coming into effect in 12 days. If you have seen any coverage from anyone else, I would be really interested if you could pass a link my way.
Not coverage, but here’s the actual law being passed. Can be translated from Portuguese easily enough.
Already had a read through it this morning. Seems like some few not too bad ideas mixed through with quite a lot of poorly thought out ones.
Everyone who was casually onboard with this because it felt righteous can fuck off.
Consumer tech fucking sucks. We tried you guys. Time to call it quits on the internet and personal computing. Humans ruin everything.
*unregulated corporate greed
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.
The word app still makes me cringe hard.
Who wants this?
Groups that want to remove anonymity from the internet.
Lemmy users upvoting Brian Lunduke is surprising. He’s very right wing from what I remember
People might not know who he is anymore. since his veer to the right hes become a lot less relevant to the linux community
Yeah that was my suspicion also, they simply don’t know him.
I’m getting old.
He’s nuts, but even nuts can do something well time to time. Just look at pistachios.
I’ve literally never heard of this guy before.
My router hasn’t confirmed shes over 14, please advice, it’s getting probed by the USA president.
