Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
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Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
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Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
@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.
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@Amorpheus @serapath @catsalad wait a minute... I bet you're just saying this to create a price spike in computer hardware, you must have shares in RAM or disks or something. Let me just take a look at what the market's doing ... THE PRICE IS WHAT, NOW‽‽‽ Never mind...
@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.
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Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
@catsalad You have my toot ...
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Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
@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
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Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
@catsalad The Register here in UK are tracking the Californian kneejerk legislation: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/os_age_verification/?td=keepreading
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Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
@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
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Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
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@reallylazybear @catsalad yeah, sticks and stones can only break our bones. Unfortunately, they have something much, much more dangerous — words.
@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.
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Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
@catsalad
Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts. We are now revisiting the Prohibition era. -
@Amorpheus @serapath @catsalad
What‽ Someone tell @tubetime! (See also https://monster6502.com/)
@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.
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Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
@catsalad
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Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
@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.
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Can't wait to use and promote illegal operating systems that do not verify age.
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
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@Doomed_Daniel @WTL @catsalad Ah yes. Cosmic rays could certainly degrade chips on earth given enough time. Hardened ICs are not typical for earth use ether. Older chips would be more resistant e.g. the COSMAC 1802 was rad hardened without trying. Cosmic rays do cause memory errors more easily as well as very few use ECC memory.
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@Doomed_Daniel @WTL @catsalad Ah yes. Cosmic rays could certainly degrade chips on earth given enough time. Hardened ICs are not typical for earth use ether. Older chips would be more resistant e.g. the COSMAC 1802 was rad hardened without trying. Cosmic rays do cause memory errors more easily as well as very few use ECC memory.
@Dianora @WTL @catsalad
It's not just cosmic rays but just degradation by use which happens faster now, or bugs in hardware (due to complexity) killing it, or a combination, see Intel CPUs one or two generations ago.
But I've seen (DDR4) RAM kits dying after just a few years of use and I'm not too optimistic that ECC would help too much beyond detecting the errors.I'm just not too optimistic that today's hardware still works fine in 20 years...
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@Dianora @WTL @catsalad
It's not just cosmic rays but just degradation by use which happens faster now, or bugs in hardware (due to complexity) killing it, or a combination, see Intel CPUs one or two generations ago.
But I've seen (DDR4) RAM kits dying after just a few years of use and I'm not too optimistic that ECC would help too much beyond detecting the errors.I'm just not too optimistic that today's hardware still works fine in 20 years...
