The Ageless Device: Cheap gadgets for violating the California Digital Age Assurance Act
They’re basically minimum-viable products that by design can be used to violate the law in California when the Act goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.
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By the way, the current age verification madness is a coordinated lobbying campaign by Meta
One more reason for me to fucking hate Zuckerberg.
Add it to the pile at this point...
Zuckerberg and Thiel.
To avoid any responsibility for them not moderating.
It's more about ad revenue. Advertisers don't want to pay for bots to read their ads.
Because a bot can’t report an age?
We're talking the goal. Actually implementing it successfully is another matter entirely.
You need to be thinking beyond just this law. Once you make it mandatory for all sites to use age verification, you then pass other laws to patch the holes in the system. Look at the DMCA. They made it a felony to bypass copyright restriction technology. They could write a law making it a felony to bypass age verification tools, even if you yourself are over 18. Just like it's currently a felony to use technology to bypass copyright protection tools, even for media that you've legally purchased.
I agree. This is a slippery slope. We need to assassinate each person pushing this law, and everyone who votes for it.
Obvious fed is obvious.
See, talking about solutions just get shut down by people who don’t actually want solutions. If you think protesting and calling your bought-and-paid-for senator is ever going to change the world, you’re going to be very sad.
that sounds like maga simp talk
The OS level age verification is being pushed by Meta to avoid having to take responsibility for moderation.
Where have you been?
that's just a distraction maga
Yes, you’re a maga distraction lol glad we agree
👉👈 so are we supposed to kiss now or
Have the day you voted for, trumpet
Please elaborate.
org has been going around calling everything maga. i am doing what is called the trolling.
Source?
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Can someone eli5 the idea? I don't get it, even after reading the page. But now I want one.
They're breaking evil age verification laws on purpose as civil disobedience with cheap hardware
OK, the disobedience was the part I didn't get. Thank you!
Insofar as part availability isn't insurmountably impacted this also constitutes functional resistance to all manor of censorship and surveillance. If you can code, test on one of these
I can, but I probably won't, because my backlog is full and overflowing. But it is cheap... damn.
It's protestware, which is great.
I agree, but now I am torn because I'm protesting the US as a whole right now.
California is adding a requirement for age verification for operating systems (or something like that) so each one of these violates that law by booting into linux.
Not just California. Several other US states are considering (or will be rolling out) similar laws, and Brazil's version has already rolled out this month.
This was the part I got. But I wondered how that would help?
Except it's not age verification and as see n by the systemd fork over this, the people hyperventilating over adding an API are making less secure systems
It's not 'hyperventilation' it's obvious fascism
ooh! ooh! Can we restart the systemd wars??
Did the init war ever end? (I use shepherd btw)
yes please! We're using OpenRC on Debian right now, it's very nice. Way less annoying than systemd.
-- Frost
I've got a huge soft spot for OpenRC, my first experience with Linux was installing Gentoo on a junker PC i'd patched together from scavenged parts in like 2007. I actually worked from a printed out version of the handbook >.<
I'm probably okay if we just Fork systemd
JFC it's "facism" to return an age bracket?
Do you know what it's going to be used for? I'll give you a hint they're not being subtle we've said it out loud
Wait are they planing to fine non-age verification compliant devices?
Well yeah. And since no one is ever going to provide their real age, they will probably set jail time and photo ID upload requirements.
I mean if we're making shit up, why not say they'll execute you for non-compliance?
Hey everyone, found the fed simp. Hilarious name “rioting pacifist” telling us everything is gonna be fine, just like history has always proven. lol.
You should be “strawman fed” for your next username.
Honestly the level of delusion around this is Alex Jones Turning the Frogs gay, there is a shred of truth but that's about it and you're our here popping vines over a PR that does very little.
Except you’re on the “Alex jones” side here. You just can’t see because you’re a fed simp.
Lmao, you realize it's a state law right?
StAtE gOvErNmEnT sImP
Just a magat by a different name.
hey, EIGHT DAY OLD TROLL, just since you haven't got the education level to read legalese, don't take it out on other posters here
So many magats wow
Brilliant. I'd like to see how the very uninformed legislators deal with this. They will have to publically re-argue first principles
Why though? How does this force anybody to do anything? They will fine anybody 2500$ for handing this to a kid and call it a day. Maybe even move closer to the maximum fine because it is a deliberate breaking of the law.
I think the grandparent was being sarchastic mate
Edit: at least I hope
Amazing. Where are the build instructions
Coming in Q3
Why do we need to wait three months for them to prove this works?
Here's e.g. instructions for using a cheap screen with the base board: https://milkv.io/docs/duo/Accessories/ST7789
Brilliant! 💪
What in leftist infighting hell is even happening in this comment section?
For some people the world is black and white, I think that law is considered bad by everyone, but for some people complaying to state regulation is a crime against humanity itself.
It is either puppies or genocide, no in-between, so adding two lines of code for json support of an age field in a systemd module warrants you to be publicly shamed, called names and probably harrassed irl.
The guy probably just wanted to be able to continue using linux at work, and without that crap he will have to go back to windows
Radical centrism
Cool name for a band
Why can't rest of the world just cancel California.