Here is a link to learn more about the bill.
It is also important to note this legislation also includes language for ongoing, real-time monitoring. Not just verification
Here is a summary from the link shared above:
Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user's age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).
I love the inclusion of the API acronym; all super serious sounding. Like these dumb pedophiles even know what an API is!
You are encouraged to have an opinion about this. It is obvious what is happening here.
Do you have the spine to be remembered?
We are at an epic turning point in human history. Those who rise to meet that standard are today's heroes.
The real world, filled with everyday people, needs individuals who embody a willingness to say "Get fucked!"
If this is your first time learning about heroics, look up information about the "hero's journey". Also known as the "monomyth".
It's okay to be new. What isn't okay is to sit on the sidelines in today's world.
You are alive today. Take full advantage of it.
If it ever gets to this point, I have a ton of books to read. I just won't use a computer anymore. You'll find me under a tree in a park reading 1984.
Streaming services, and seemingly all computing technology lately...
I'll be that guy who specializes in extremely outdated hardware that doesn't have this feature.
looks around
opens trench coat
Psst hey, buddy. Yeah, you. You need any ram, CPU? I can get you a mint ISO, maybe even debian if there's a little something in it for me!
Let’s start our own Internet with old PCs and meshtastic
I've long since thought we should do this, and avoid the pitfalls the internet has fallen into. The entire stack needs to be foss and standardised, including hardware. It needs to be mostly incompatible with anything before it (Can still be standardised in a POSIX-like way but not "you can run your old windows program" compatible), and it needs to be designed democratically (and as much as people hate bureaucracy, designed by committee of academics and other not-for-profit organizations and individuals). We need what is essentially a less violent computer cultural revolution
I was thinking of a fediverse BBS. With automated synchronization between nodes with modems and radios. Would need to cut down on videos and graphics but could work
I'ma be both of you
We can build our own internet. With meshtastic. And closed networks.
I2P and tor are gonna thrive off of this era of oppressive government surveillance, I'm excited for that. Silver lining, people may actually advocate for and use private services.
I don’t think meshtastic will scale that well
It can.
Reticulum also exists now too, and supports the same hardware
Not really. Meshtastic simply does not support high enough bandwidth options.
As someone already pointed out, Reticulum is much better suited for this since it's more agnostic to the underlying method of transport.
Hmm, I barely had time to skim this and I'm certainly not naturally talented in understanding tech, but for anyone else interested (and so I recall to return to it later): https://reticulum.network/
Find in page returned one result for "reticulum," and it was yours. Sometimes everything doesn't federate for everyone at the same time.
Anyway my point wasn't that it can right now, just that necessity is the mother of invention/innovation. I'll look into reticulum at some point, I just finished vacuuming and mopping after work, and need to clean myself up. Thanks for mentioning it to me.
Meshtastic doesn't have the ability, ever, to be able to do more than rudimentary texts. The frequency bands it operates on simply won't be able to handle more than that, and if it ever became mainstream in any way, it certainly wouldn't be able to handle anything more than text.
Sure be awesome to have another way to text people, it just will never be an alternative to the internet or sending memes on a SM.
Mayb I refer to RFC-1149? We don't need to reinvent the wheel if a perfectly fine standardized protocol allready exists.
Yeah. And 99.9% of humanity will go on using McInternet, and whatever the fuck we do won't matter and they'll still control all of society and its direction.
Ah ye of little faith. Build it and they will come, if we act in concert.
that attitude got us in this mess. The internet was free before corporate interests and the series of eternal september esque events happening from '98 onward caused largely by accessibility. Whatever we come up with needs to be difficult enough to access so corporations can't turn everyone into "customers". It doesn't need to be so hard that only nerds can use, but it needs to have enough friction to require effort, thought, and interest of some kind to use
I'm like 99% sure that they've written off millennials as a total loss as a generation they can control and are grooming Gen alpha to be their little human slaves. The 'smart' tech guys decided that cyberpunk dystopia was inevitable and decided to make it themselves.
When you reread it, consider that the systematic pollution has likely amongst other things affected our fear and trust centers in the brain, making us trust authority. I'm convinced, by several pathways, one of which probably endocrine disruptors, but others. A topic they sort of touch on.
This has recently been happening to me! I have been so fed up with the dumb propagandistic bullshit and the fucking algorithm enema of the Internet lately that I've been like- FINE. Fuck this, I have a whole library to entertain me.
I've read a bunch of books, classics I missed back when reading was a thing, and it's amazing. It feels like feeding my scurvy ass brain fruits and vegetables after a decade at sea.