The war on general purpose computing.
Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level
Submitted 2 days ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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eleijeep@piefed.social 1 day ago
artyom@piefed.social 1 day ago
Go ahead. My OS belongs to me. It does what I say. If you want it to tell you I’m an adult, it will.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Before I go full tin foil hat on this theory, I want to know how they plan on making it so the signal is sent client side without the client being able to fake the signal.
Like, this sounds like something that any type of OS that allows you to install a program will be able to bypass quite easily either by always sending the adult signal or never sending the adult signal
Like reading the bill, they explicitly forbid any type of personally identifying information being transferred. It sounds like it’s just a DOB check and if you say you are > 13 or whatever age they have it as it sends a signal.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
So… you know how Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot and TPM enabled, which just so happens to mean you can only use Windows 11? Yeah, they’ve been priming it for a while. Soon they’ll mandate that the browsers have hooks than can read the attestation of the system like Google’s Safety system on Android, and then sites won’t even load if it doesn’t pass.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
So I get what you’re going at, but I did want to add that secure boot doesn’t require Windows 11. And that the main issue with Battlefield 6 isn’t the fact that it has secure boot enabled because you can use Battlefield 6 on Linux with secure boot. The issue is it won’t pass the anti-cheat, which is Javolin if I remember correctly, intentionally disables breaks itself when in a Proton environment.
Being said, I don’t think secure boot is the threat everyone thinks it is. Microsoft was originally not going to let alternative platforms be allowed on the secure boot environment. However, they started facing legal threats regarding it, including a potential ban in Australia and part of the EU stated they were looking into investigating it in regards to anti-trust, so they ended up caving to avoid having a judgment in court. I don’t foresee Microsoft going back to making it so they’re the only one allowed again,and if they do it’s almost certain they’ll be anti-trusted
turkalino@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Secure Boot and TPM are not Windows-only technologies. I’m secure booting openSUSE right now
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Ignorant parents unwilling to monitor their kids or utilize already available tools to aid in preventing access to inappropriate material want devs to do so for them, ushering in a surveillance state.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A-ha. All for the sake of children. Guess what makes my butt hurt: there are still people who buy this. And many of them
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 day ago
AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Next they’ll want you to have a license to program (without AI)
alonsohmtz@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
Let me guess, none of them said this during their campaigns.
Useful idiots only elect servants of the ruling class.
Feyd@programming.dev 1 day ago
Iirc California had a similar proposal to this. I actually think it’s not a terrible idea at the core. It’s basically an API for parental controls. You set up a device (or account on a device) and say “this is a device for a kid” and that gets used for everything. It actually makes a lot of sense to do something in that direction. Part of the reason people are convinced something needs to be done is because managing parental controls across the different myriad services and apps is a labyrinth thattech savvy patents can barely navigate, and less savvy patents don’t stand a chance.
paul@lemmy.org 18 hours ago
Well then the solution is to have some company create a solution to make parental controls much easier.
Instead you’re going to give your ID to Peter Thiel who will use that to connect all of your online activity to a single profile of you. Eventually, when he and Trump and all the other right wing idiots feel emboldened they’ll send Gestapo to your house on voting day to make sure you can’t make it to the polls (or just straight up nullify your vote). And that’s the best case scenario.
Palantir is positioning itself as a crime prevention system that needs access to all of your health, education, spending and other data until they know every single thing about you so they can “predict crime before it happens”.
In 10 years time, the world is going to be a far worse place and people like you will be to blame for allowing it.
Feyd@programming.dev 18 hours ago
Where does it say you give anyone your ID?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
You know it’s a bad idea because it’s literally what Mark Zuckerberg suggested in court the other day.
halfwaythere@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Obviously every device will be required to have both
2.Always on microphone for voice age analysis through stress levels using AI
If you don’t have all three it’s an automatic 3 strikes felony offense and you’re sent straight to labor camps for the rest of your existence no AI needed (silver lining right? Riiiight)
Duh.