schnurritoUsers hate it, but age-check tech is coming. Here's how it works.
無Hope of AGPL Licenser by Bovas De Quincey, an autobiography.
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Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027
cm0002Richard Stallman is the Last Crusader of the Software Freedom Movement
An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification
Tim AbellI've hated having to use Android for YEARS. I would never use iOS.
Now even android is finally bolting the remaining exits.
https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1rexyw1/google_is_lying_to_us_about_the_2026_android/
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Now even android is finally bolting the remaining exits.
https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1rexyw1/google_is_lying_to_us_about_the_2026_android/
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The splinternet: how online shutdowns are getting cheaper and easier to impose
The splinternet: how online shutdowns are getting cheaper and easier to impose - SLRPNK
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/41529978 [https://sopuli.xyz/post/41529978] > > Like many US soft-power initiatives, the programme was imperfect, morally complex and at times at odds with the policies of other governments. Yet it is one foundation of what the internet is: a global commons. Today’s online world is dominated by large tech platforms and awash with illegal content and misinformation. But it is still a structure in which facts, ideas and information accessible from London are largely accessible from Delhi, Johannesburg and São Paulo as well. > > > That could change rapidly. On the one hand is the matter of US funding, now cut or apparently redirected towards a Trumpian, politicised effort to undermine global attempts to regulate US big-tech platforms. > > > On the other is the mounting export of censorship technologies, which are constantly improving and increasingly marketed overseas. These include devices sold by companies in China that give their customers – governments in Pakistan, Myanmar and Ethiopia among others – extremely fine-tuned control over what comes in and out of a country. It is believed that similar technologies are the foundation of Iran’s current shutdown. > > This article unfortunately fails to mention the US has provided a significant portion of the apparatus to China. > > > Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police, government agencies and surveillance companies, an Associated Press investigation has found. > > > And time after time, despite bipartisan attempts, Congress has turned a blind eye to loopholes that allow China to work around its own rules, such as cloud services, third-party resellers, and holes in sanctions passed after the Tiananmen massacre. > > https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/us-government-allowed-and-even-helped-us-firms-sell-tech-used-for-surveillance-in-china-ap-finds/ [https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/us-government-allowed-and-even-helped-us-firms-sell-tech-used-for-surveillance-in-china-ap-finds/]
New York’s New 3D Printing Law, As Written, Is Extremely Harmful And Annoying
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What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under?
What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under? - toast.ooo
> You wouldn’t just out of the blue completely drop support for something existentially necessary for someone to live their life and get to their job day to day would you? > > Wait, you would? What the fuck? Weren’t you the one lecturing me about the ethics of downloading a car?!?? > > > Before Fisker’s 2024 bankruptcy, just 419 Fisker Oceans made it into British driveways. One unfortunate buyer, a marketing manager from Southampton, experienced the worst of the brand’s teething troubles. After taking delivery, her Ocean was plagued by persistent software glitches. Following a call to Fisker, engineers were dispatched to collect the vehicle for repairs, but when the car was due to be collected, it refused to start. Mere days later, Fisker declared insolvency, leaving the Ocean stranded as a 5,500 lb (2,500 kg) driveway ornament for the next ten months with no solution in sight.