would like to have a wee little word with all the people who said everyone was overreacting to the california OS age signal legislation

[hardpenguin13@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko This is insane, impractical, and unenforceable under any normal circumstances. What, we want to prevent minors from using technology now? For what purpose? It doesn't make any sense at all.

[daveburb@mastodon.au]

@eniko
Probably sponsored by Microsoft.

#uspol

[cureneckbeard@gensokyo.social]

@eniko Makes the default state of a computer unusable until the user doxes themsef to a third party. Technically outlaws retro computing, or anything that isn't internet-connected, doesn't have a camera, or can't be updated to support verification. Trivially bypassed with fake ID. a friend who looks older, or a copy of Garry's Mod.

It's an utterly insane idea, and I'm angry that it's gotten this far.

[mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@eniko and all they had to do was to ban social media.

[skellysoft@mastodon.gamedev.place]

Well, time to accelerate plans to get myself onto an older OS, set up a little bank of offline only PCs, and get a Pixel 8 so I can install GrapheneOS. Balls.

[distractal@hachyderm.io]

@eniko I’d like to especially call out the people who said putting that shit in systemd was nbd and who mocked people who called it obeying in advance.

[thestonedonkey@beige.party]

@eniko well it'll be great staying on the current version of Linux forever.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@eniko You might have a hard time finding someone that stupid here.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@hardpenguin13 @eniko It's for data harvesting purposes only. You don't even need to, and probably should not, entertain or respond to the outrageous lie that this is about protecting children.

[d_rift@beige.party]

@eniko How is a server supposed to verify an age? Of whom, when it has no 'the user'? What about their smart fridge? The espresso machine, next? They make no sense. (They are very dangerous.)

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@crazyeddie sadly, i saw them here

[raffkarva@sunny.garden]

@mms @eniko

Not social media. Algorithms, Advertising and Profits.

[pamela1960@kolektiva.social]

@eniko I'm 65 years old, I'm not going to start verifying my age now.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

this is doing numbers so i invite you to check out our very gay and also very age appropriate mario-like https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116399618237129994

seriously, kids love it. anyway i'm sure the fascists out there would love it if kids were never able to play anything like it so i guess get it while it's hot?

[yon@sakurajima.moe]

@eniko The intent was always to get Stasi back. It has never, and will never have anything to do with age. It’s all about registration so they can monitor every tiny thing we do.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@eniko Saw this coming. It should have been nipped in the bud, but of course nothing is anymore.

This is literally within not an operating system's scope. Just because they don't know what an OS is doesn't give them a valid excuse to screw over the entire world with their stupidity.

[jenzi@mastodon.social]

@RaffKarva @mms @eniko willing to lose social media too if i have to, but the algorithm is cancer

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@eniko I immediately messaged my representative about this.

This is incredibly alarming, and it’s the thin end of a wedge of surveillance the US government is about to insert into every tech product.