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Something I really really want to emphasize here:

The "age verification" bit doesn't really matter. Even as far as mandating the existence of parental controls is debatable in many contexts.

The "developer liability to know personal information" bit is an existential threat to free software. And the bit that deserves defending from every possible angle (freedom of speech, expression, and privacy law to name a few)

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function subtyping is easy, just remember

you use **contra**ceptives when putting it inside and a **co**pay when taking it out

If the computer is a prosthetic (and it is) then this means we legitimately have to be careful about what software we run, because we are deciding what to make part of our selves, part of our minds
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ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online

I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players

ssh snakes.run to join!

so apparently if a hacker compromises your google account, they can just make it into a "child" account managed by a "parent" account they control, and this completely takes away your ability to recover the account via a backup phone number or email address or similar

(since those require "parental approval" once an account has been made into a "child" account)

this has just happened to a good friend of ours

and it's a known problem and, of course, Google do not have support personnel you can contact

so you are just totally fucking screwed

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