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Brazil is requiring OS level age verification by march 17th, 2026.

New York about to vote on a law that would "require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation."

In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.

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[–] Mohamad20ZX@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago

Thanks for sharing these news with us yeah I’m not going back to Ubuntu after this (not it’s a great OS to begin with) but before that we had to deal with snaps bogging up the entire system with updates galore anyway hopefully we can learn this lesson about not using mainstream software to control our data

[–] michael_palmer 4 points 17 hours ago

In fact this is a person identification

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do not link Lunduke in here. He is, literally, an insane bigot.

It does not matter how factual or not the particular thing he is reporting on in this particular instance is.

[–] johntash@eviltoast.org 6 points 18 hours ago

I don't know who that is, but I was a little annoyed to see a thumbnail of a YouTube thumbnail of a screenshot of Twitter. Why not link to the source?

[–] Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

Make sure to be clear that fake IDs are things you can make and use to bypass this. If using fake names on the internet isn't unethical to you all why are Fake IDs as a subject avoided like the plague?

[–] texture@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will literally pull my AMD socket A mobo out of the box and run windows XP before I comply with this bullshit.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Or switch to one of the growing number of Linux distros who have taken the stance of "not a fucking chance are we complying with that idiocy" and then just hope where you live doesn't pass a law like this and those distros are forced to region block downloads for you 👍

There's also the worry that if enough places push something like this through, could end up being a case of a vast swath of the internet will just refuse to work without receiving an approved "Age Assurance Signal"....

Or the bigger worry that this is the beginning of the end of proper human interaction with the internet. Access and child protection laws become so strict that only chat bot agents are legally authorised to use the internet and we all become beholden to these programs for everything from looking up a recipe to requesting access to research papers to help support your masters thesis or fucking whatever.

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[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm kind of excited to explore what kind of activities outside has come up with since I was a teenager. Gonna have a lot of free time now that computing won't be fun anymore.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"You need to use the app to reserve a space for the public park."

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

*unregulated corporate greed

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A conspiracy of global elites? Pffft.

That's crazytalk.

It's not like Peter Thiel ,one time president and current member of the BILDERBERG steering committee , and a bunch of other dudes who worked at PayPal are solely responsible for the trajectory of technology...

Or like some forum on economics somewhere in the world would coordinate economics, and make some crazy plan with a super unbelievably literal name like agenda 2030 with the dude at the head saying "you'll own nothing and you will be happy"

I mean... Crazy. Right.

The rich should have already been filleted and cooked.

[–] Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Haha imagine if they were all pedofiles, rapists and total degenerates too. haha. HA HA. No way, too crazy right? Pandoras box is open.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 414 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 points 1 day ago

Sounds like the Epstein Class just wants to know where the children are and make it legal to groom them.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 120 points 2 days ago

Feels weird upvoting this comment. I have to remind myself. It's not you I'm mad at. You're not the one doing this. You're just the messanger.

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[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The cyberpunk dystopia times arrive at last.

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

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Remember: it's up to us to make the cool cyberpunk stuff a reality. The bad stuff is coming no matter what.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 192 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

They can pry it out of my cold dead hands

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 117 points 2 days ago

Pretty much. They‘re essentially outlawing privacy so there will be no point in resisting. This is worse than Orwellian.

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 80 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I feel like there is a line coming with hardware and software and that will be the last of it's type as the move towards subscription based services is forced onto everyone. Its a shame people won't vote with their wallets. It just means I'll have my basement crammed with old tech and I'll go full old man mode and stop keeping up with technological progress.

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[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 88 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago (11 children)

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

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 12 points 1 day ago

Get fucked.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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?" ❌

The word app still makes me cringe hard.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Load “*”,8,1

Stop it. You guys are making me feel young.

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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 123 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] Imhotep@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People might not know who he is anymore. since his veer to the right hes become a lot less relevant to the linux community

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I've literally never heard of this guy before.

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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 78 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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

Oh well.

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[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 33 points 1 day ago

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.

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