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

[clickymcticker@hachyderm.io]

@catsalad @ramonfincken Reading through this concept, I’d like to remind everybody that constantly polling a big wide honking bracket can be used to pinpoint exact details. Replying “under 13” every day until today (you now reply “13-16”) means today is your 13th birthday. There is zero point in adding brackets when services can already determine your exact age using this method.

California needs to stop writing hopes & prayers and start writing laws which include expert guidance.

[capriciousday@mastodon.social]

@catsalad fully printing out faces of politicians who supported these measures and using those to verify age when otherwise forced to

[softspeak@defcon.social]

@catsalad
"Pssst, Hey kid, you want something that'll make your PC run like a thousands times better. (opens a coat to reveal USBs) I got a Mint, Arch, Zorin, Ubuntu, Debian if you feeling up for it I just got Pop!OS"

[dianora@ottawa.place]

@catsalad Just be sure to also use illegal CPU hardware that does not have tracking devices built in.

[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