A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.
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A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.
This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.
@wwahammy But the *heatmap* Eric! Think of the commit heatmap!
(Somehow I feel like /s is required here because *gestures*)
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"It's not going to be repealed," ok, but like, can we? Can we build a plan to get this reversed? I'm about to complain on the daily to my state reps, because I sure as hell didn't ask them to pass it, and they sure as hell didn't let me know this was even in the works.
If I got backing, I'd even do the work of getting a prop going to repeal this, I'm not even joking. Or should some other options be explored first? Is anyone else taking these steps? Can anyone hear me? Where is the pushback against this?
@crypticrainfall Start with the EFF (https://www.eff.org/) and Fight for the Future (https://www.fightforthefuture.org/), I'd say
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@artemis @smn @wwahammy This whole OS age thing is beyond stupid. Do these politicians even know what an OS is for? This seems more like an issue to take to app developers like Grindr (which unless they have a pic and look 40 years old, we're not talking. Plenty of children on there). I know for me, who is highly allergic to kids, and very untrusting, verification on those sort of things would be a good thing. But not just so I can login to my Mac and use Logic and Xcode
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Lobby the fools that inflicted this on you
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@artemis @smn @wwahammy This whole OS age thing is beyond stupid. Do these politicians even know what an OS is for? This seems more like an issue to take to app developers like Grindr (which unless they have a pic and look 40 years old, we're not talking. Plenty of children on there). I know for me, who is highly allergic to kids, and very untrusting, verification on those sort of things would be a good thing. But not just so I can login to my Mac and use Logic and Xcode
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@gringlegrif @artemis @smn @wwahammy *sigh* I should have known. Only something this sleazy could come out of Mark Zuckerberg's office. Why can't hookers just come out of his office instead. It's always this bullshit.
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@gringlegrif @artemis @smn @wwahammy *sigh* I should have known. Only something this sleazy could come out of Mark Zuckerberg's office. Why can't hookers just come out of his office instead. It's always this bullshit.
@praetor @artemis @smn @wwahammy someone on Reddit figured it out.
Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html
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@praetor @artemis @smn @wwahammy someone on Reddit figured it out.
Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html
@gringlegrif @artemis @smn @wwahammy Well, if Europe (as usual always the over-acheivers...can't wait till I move to Norway) has zero knowledge identification technology, and Meta is behind this not wanting that...pretty easy to surmise why they want it. I fucking hate advertisers and marketers. I really, really do. We used to beat up the marketing kids in college.
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A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.
This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.
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A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.
This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.
@wwahammy Yikes
these public safety types are going to far -
@praetor @artemis @smn @wwahammy someone on Reddit figured it out.
Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html
@gringlegrif @artemis @smn @wwahammy I don't know how old you all are, but when they released Windows XP with the call-home feature...people started pirating Server 2003 that didn't have that. Could run games, etc. I'm a server dude, this can't be put into server OSes. it would never pass a whole slew of regulatory requirements for server operating systems. I'd start calling my laptop a server
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A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.
This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.
@wwahammy apart from security fixes I don't see any earth-shattering reason to improve these modules, so is a security-fix only maintainable version possible?
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@wwahammy apart from security fixes I don't see any earth-shattering reason to improve these modules, so is a security-fix only maintainable version possible?
@mahadevank sure, anything is possible.
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RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593
@wwahammy the possibility of a free Internet is gone unless we start punishing these people.
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@artemis @smn @wwahammy This whole OS age thing is beyond stupid. Do these politicians even know what an OS is for? This seems more like an issue to take to app developers like Grindr (which unless they have a pic and look 40 years old, we're not talking. Plenty of children on there). I know for me, who is highly allergic to kids, and very untrusting, verification on those sort of things would be a good thing. But not just so I can login to my Mac and use Logic and Xcode
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@wwahammy @artemis @smn it does, but I don’t think that license change is meant to be a whole solution, and I’m not sure what better thing those orgs could do.
Until it is stopped, maybe it would be better if the ones not located in California just ignored it; it’s not like they can impose California law on the entire world
@ShadSterling @wwahammy @artemis @smn I actually think that the license change and/or a website note saying "don't download this if you're in $jurisdiction" is an excellent response.
It's not like CA or the UK or Brazil can actually police who downloads what OS, and it removes legal liability* from the distro without actually affecting access or changing the code to support surveillance. The distros *do* need a way to avoid legal liability.
If in the end this leads to a situation where most Linuxes are officially banned in most of the world but people routinely ignore that ban, that's a good thing actually because it trains people to ignore bad laws. If some jurisdictions escalate to more invasive measures that target users, that's where you'll actually find a political base to resist this.
* I'm not a lawyer, but I have seen decent-sized orgs go this route.
