Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.

[wtl@mastodon.social]

@Dianora @catsalad Be funny if all we have to do is stop upgrading.

[dianora@ottawa.place]

@WTL @catsalad BSD in general has not received as much 'buzz' as linux however as linux itself has become a tad more ... commercial we have been seeing a resurgence of interest esp. from hard core linux users. NetBSD runs very well on just about anything including older hardware.

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@catsalad
Can't wait to see tech bros prosecuted for using their products to promote illegal surveillance and exploit those who are under age, CatSalad.

[rahulsetrakian@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad #ProtectTheChildren #KillEncryption #NothingToHide
#GovernmentLibraryShouldBeTheOnlySource

[bms48@mastodon.social]

@catsalad Coming right you from the home of the Online Safety Act nanny state! Which is just regulatory capture by Bigtech by another name, frankly.

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@GerardThornley @serapath @catsalad Sorry to disappoint you. I don't have any money invested in stock or currency markets. And even if every single fediverse user would buy new hardware, it would be but a insignificant fraction of the impact AI expansion has on the memory market.

[masek@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad You have my toot ...

[viralobscurity@mstdn.social]

@catsalad microslop are already there with ID capture & no local accounts, apple & google probably aren't far behind

US based Linux distros will likely cave with UK based stuff following closely

The sad truth is that I've seen most people just hand over IDs when asked without thinking giving those kind of ideas credibility

The more bad ideas are normalised, the harder they are to challenge

When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy & I'm happy to become an outlaw to keep mine

[bms48@mastodon.social]

@catsalad The Register here in UK are tracking the Californian kneejerk legislation: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/os_age_verification/?td=keepreading

[fl0und3r@defcon.social]

@catsalad people are going to have to add a section to their "how to write a minimalist kernel in Rust" called "how to add age verification", congrats, you haven't gotten USB functionality working but now to be legal in the US you need to ask the user for a photocopy of their ID

[zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org]

@catsalad Cat barely legal salad I would change the handle as well!

[reallylazybear@mastodon.social]

@GerardThornley @catsalad Right. I forgot. Can't have that "back in my day..." crap

And to think most of em still run the world today, like that stupid orange man.

[aakl@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts. We are now revisiting the Prohibition era.

[tubetime@mastodon.social]

@GerardThornley @Amorpheus @serapath @catsalad for actually useful desktop computing, it still comes down to getting wafers fabbed. not too many advanced fabs around the world these days. Taiwan, South Korea, US, france, probably a few others.

[rhialto@mastodon.sdf.org]

@catsalad
How about Ageless Linux? That seems like it counts.

Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

(goblincorps.com)

[doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@WTL @Dianora @catsalad
good thing that modern hardware has a reputation of longevity

[dianora@ottawa.place]

@Doomed_Daniel @WTL @catsalad ROHS.

[dandylover1@someplace.social]

@catsalad Let's just hope they have built-in screen readers that can easily be turned on, or they'll be just like most, completely inaccessible.

[doomed_daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Dianora @WTL @catsalad
I was more thinking about chips degrading relatively fast because of nanometer semiconductor scale and massive complexity, but that's probably a factor as well

[anon_4601@nerdculture.de]

@catsalad

I've got an alternative idea if this madness actually goes through and we can't find a solution to circumvent it legally or not....

Instead of just running, let's turn every single phone into a weapon of digital disobedience.Imagine if an 'outlaw' OS (or a simple mod) automatically appended a 'bag of forbidden words' to every message, hidden in metadata or invisible text, containing a random mix of terms guaranteed to trigger the system.
If millions of people sent billions of these 'poisoned' messages, Chat Control would collapse under the sheer weight of false positives. It would be the biggest DDoS attack in history, powered purely by civil disobedience......

If everything is suspicious, nothing is.

#DDoS #FalsePositives #DataPoisoning #ChatContol #AgeVerification #AgeCheck