Maybe they did it so no one else could? When patent trolls become the true heroes.

If you read this law bill in the strictest way, it makes almost no sense. It says that anyone who makes or controls an operating system has to check the age of every person who uses it. But it does not limit this to big companies. That could mean volunteers who help build Debian or even someone at home making their own version of Linux. The law bill would expect them to build a system that asks for (and verifies) a birthday before you can use the computer.

It gets even stranger with websites like GitHub. If someone downloads shared code and uses it, the person who posted it might be seen as responsible. But they have no way to know who downloaded it or what they did with it. The law bill would still expect their system to check ages and share that information with app makers.

They are in a never ending bathtub tho.

Not to veer off topic, but I always found this timeline fascinating: First straight line no frills flight was 1903. The first dogfight (with pistols) was 1913. The first [officially recognized] dogfight with machine guns was 1914. By 1915, forward-firing machine guns became standard, allowing for aggressive aerial duels.

If only science and discovery was our species’ true priority :(

“Please sign in.”

I wonder what that course is called?

Field Studies in Eastern Ukraine… Statistics of Acceptable Losses, perhaps?

Well, I guess it’s technically installed software… but the scope is significantly less than what’s implied from the headline. My immediate reaction was, “how?”

This is basically standard browser fingerprinting, hence why it’s sold for surveillance activities. Linked in is big brother.

I’m pretty sure chatgpt developed this “15 point” plan.

This isn’t even malicious compliance. It’s just compliance. The owner of the system can set ages for system users. Smart people will set it to what they want.

If you want to debate foreign policy, great. But “othering” and dehumanizing an entire group of people isn’t a serious argument. It’s the Russia/GOP playbook.

And the fact this is so heavily upvoted says more about the state of lemmy than it does about the people you’ve never met, yet seemingly hate so much.

You know, I haven’t seen ICE in the news as much lately. What’s going on there?

Edit: n/m, found the answer: https://lemmy.ca/post/61489203

Arresting the reporters it seems

But did they try land-based regime change yet?

The only way this can be implemented at the OS level (not the vendor level) is to put in whatever date you want. That includes any notion of scanning “IDs”.

If you want to setup a kid’s account on a phone or pc, then you have the control. If they are smart enough to do it themselves, then hey- don’t hold them back.

My immediate concern is giving sites additional fingerprinting material. The OS better not give away an actual birthdate- when they can option for adult/not-adult, etc. Next concern is moving the age verification to a corporation, at which point the dystopia is real.

Just the video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F_B-bhayfZg

Easy, just create a long heat sink and dangle it in the earth’s atmosphere. Now we are winning!

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Doesn’t seem like this should be getting downvotes when traffic schools are spitting out drivers that don’t even know what the road signs mean. This is some [10 years ago] 20/20 worthy stuff.

For those who haven’t read the article, this is about background city noise, not sitting in traffic.

Hah! It gets better than that.

We are going to have to pay again in taxes to make up for the new shortfall.

This belongs on some cash money as one of those artistic flourishes.