all the age verification and especially the OS age verification makes me want to work hard on Bismuth so i can put out an OS that will not do it and if the law comes knocking i will just be like "no its not an OS its just a VM actually :)"
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@eniko that's in the category of plans that work better if you don't mention them
but yeah, we understand the desire for sure
@ireneista it's not like it'll happen because i need money to live on account of the capitalism
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@ireneista it's not like it'll happen because i need money to live on account of the capitalism
@eniko yeah
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and yes i know this wouldn't work and even if i could pull it off it would solve nothing. i just want to push back against this nonsense in my own limited way before it gets so entrenched as the status quo that saying age verification is bad and ineffective will get responses like "well what do you propose, *not* have age verification?" like it's a foregone conclusion and was always there
and you know that's where we're going to end up after a decade of this
@eniko but, we have always been at war with Eastasia
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all the age verification and especially the OS age verification makes me want to work hard on Bismuth so i can put out an OS that will not do it and if the law comes knocking i will just be like "no its not an OS its just a VM actually :)"
@eniko it's mindbogglingly stupid.
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@eniko that's an interesting question: what counts as an OS? Is it anything one boots to? So, are game boy games OSs?
@fabiosantoscode @eniko and what about operating systems that has no user account, like freedos
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@fabiosantoscode @eniko and what about operating systems that has no user account, like freedos
@romabysen interesting! Whose age are we verifying when there's no user?
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@romabysen interesting! Whose age are we verifying when there's no user?
@fabiosantoscode @romabysen does WINE have to age verify
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@fabiosantoscode @romabysen does WINE have to age verify
@eniko of course! You must be over 18 to drink
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and yes i know this wouldn't work and even if i could pull it off it would solve nothing. i just want to push back against this nonsense in my own limited way before it gets so entrenched as the status quo that saying age verification is bad and ineffective will get responses like "well what do you propose, *not* have age verification?" like it's a foregone conclusion and was always there
and you know that's where we're going to end up after a decade of this
@eniko The prevailing timeline is so dire we can't even entertain a reasonably wild chance of the strong handshake meme between the OS World and the Erotic one coming alive.
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all the age verification and especially the OS age verification makes me want to work hard on Bismuth so i can put out an OS that will not do it and if the law comes knocking i will just be like "no its not an OS its just a VM actually :)"
@eniko have you seen https://agelesslinux.org?
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