jwzMar 21

Ageless Linux.

The Ageless Device: A physical computing device designed to satisfy every element of the California Digital Age Assurance Act's regulatory scope while deliberately refusing to comply with its requirements. The device costs less than...
https://jwz.org/b/yk43

Show threadhackillu
@jwz You're in California. You gotta do something. You don't have to talk to legislators and can probably find someone else who will and can. But you can totally do protests in the street or something. I'm pretty sure you can tell legislators that they just outlawed owning a computer or a smartphone before 18 and this is not how most programmers alive learned stuff. Tell them that requiring peoples ages for the 1984 surveillance ad network is too much. And that they're outlawing Linux/FOSS OSs.
Mar 23 at 7:25amWeb
Show threadhackilluMar 23
@jwz I mean, crap, they're short of wanting to see my ID for me to use my computer. This is stupid and outrageous beyond belief. As if corporations kafkaesque surveillance system for showing useless ads wasn't enough. This is straight out of Hackers. Apparently I can't use the device I own the way I want. They also want my biometrics if I want to run my own program on android, or install an APK not from the Google Play Store. Putting cameras on TVs wasn't 1984 enough, now they want to see my ID.
Show threadhackilluMar 23
@jwz Look, there's a bajillion developers in California. I'm pretty sure half of them will have a clue what a data leak is and how often they happen. Like the Discord ID leak last October.
Show threadjwzMar 23
@hackillu Dude stop telling me what I oughta do
Show threadhackilluMar 23
@jwz Alright, man, will do.