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.

They are taking the power of personal computing away from us...

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.

13 days 😂 Tell me you don't know how software development works or how operating systems are developed without telling me.

can we stop linking to lunduke (he’s a transphobe chud)

So this is the thing I'll eventually end up in jail for bypassing. I coul've sworn it would be drugs.

Oh well.

Pretty soon you'll be hearing folks say things like "why are you worried if you don't have anything to hide" as if personal privacy has no value whatsoever. It's a slippery slope!!!

Accountless linux distros incoming

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

theres no reason to post lunduke. surely we can get our info from literally any other source

Linus Torvalds is the closest thing Linux has to a manufacturer

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

How on earth are they going to enforce this in smaller IOT chips? I just got an esp32-c3 for like $1.50. I highly doubt that things is able to run whatever bloatware they are going to require.

Man, they really want to find out who they need to murder, don't they?

Because that's the bottom line. Everybody understands that, right?

AI is all about replacing as many human jobs with automation as possible, and the Age/ID laws are about tracking down anyone who complains about it.

This is what we've known was coming for decades. It's finally here.

The cyberpunk dystopia times arrive at last.

Can't wait for mohawks to come back in style 🌈🤘

When they make it law to have age verification in your operating system, only outlaws will have operating systems without age verification.

I guess I'm an outlaw then. Enjoy your visit to the wild west, we will always have illegal operating systems aplenty.

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?" ❌

Consumer tech fucking sucks. We tried you guys. Time to call it quits on the internet and personal computing. Humans ruin everything.

Lemmy users upvoting Brian Lunduke is surprising. He’s very right wing from what I remember

Downboats for Lunduke

My router hasn't confirmed shes over 14, please advice, it's getting probed by the USA president.

Who wants this?

Everyone who was casually onboard with this because it felt righteous can fuck off.