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.
The Ageless Device: Cheap gadgets for violating the California Digital Age Assurance Act
https://agelesslinux.org/hardware.html
74 Comments
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu · 149 pts · 152d
By the way, the current age verification madness is a coordinated lobbying campaign by Meta
EonNShadow@pawb.social · 33 pts · 152d
One more reason for me to fucking hate Zuckerberg.
Add it to the pile at this point...
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 7 pts · 151d
Zuckerberg and Thiel.
org@lemmy.org · 27 pts · 152d
To avoid any responsibility for them not moderating.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 151d
It's more about ad revenue. Advertisers don't want to pay for bots to read their ads.
tristynalxander@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 151d
org@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 151d
Because a bot can’t report an age?
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 151d
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.
org@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 151d
I agree. This is a slippery slope. We need to assassinate each person pushing this law, and everyone who votes for it.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 151d
Obvious fed is obvious.
org@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 151d
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 152d
that sounds like maga simp talk
org@lemmy.org · 6 pts · 152d
The OS level age verification is being pushed by Meta to avoid having to take responsibility for moderation.
Where have you been?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 152d
that's just a distraction maga
org@lemmy.org · 5 pts · 152d
Yes, you’re a maga distraction lol glad we agree
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 152d
👉👈 so are we supposed to kiss now or
org@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 152d
Have the day you voted for, trumpet
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 151d
Please elaborate.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 151d
org has been going around calling everything maga. i am doing what is called the trolling.
dannymon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 122d
Source?
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 122d
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
racoon@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 150d
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 36 pts · 152d
Can someone eli5 the idea? I don't get it, even after reading the page. But now I want one.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 41 pts · 152d
They're breaking evil age verification laws on purpose as civil disobedience with cheap hardware
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 19 pts · 152d
OK, the disobedience was the part I didn't get. Thank you!
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 152d
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
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 6 pts · 152d
I can, but I probably won't, because my backlog is full and overflowing. But it is cheap... damn.
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf · 19 pts · 152d
It's protestware, which is great.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 10 pts · 152d
I agree, but now I am torn because I'm protesting the US as a whole right now.
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 152d
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.
dan@upvote.au · 16 pts · 152d
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.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 6 pts · 152d
This was the part I got. But I wondered how that would help?
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · -28 pts · 152d
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
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 22 pts · 152d
It's not 'hyperventilation' it's obvious fascism
CuddlesMcBubblefun@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 152d
ooh! ooh! Can we restart the systemd wars??
juipeltje@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 152d
Did the init war ever end? (I use shepherd btw)
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 152d
I'm probably okay if we just Fork systemd
forestbeasts@pawb.social · 1 pts · 151d
yes please! We're using OpenRC on Debian right now, it's very nice. Way less annoying than systemd.
-- Frost
CuddlesMcBubblefun@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 151d
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 >.<
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 152d
JFC it's "facism" to return an age bracket?
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 152d
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
brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de · 24 pts · 152d
Wait are they planing to fine non-age verification compliant devices?
org@lemmy.org · -18 pts · 152d
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.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 152d
I mean if we're making shit up, why not say they'll execute you for non-compliance?
org@lemmy.org · -22 pts · 152d
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.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 152d
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.
org@lemmy.org · -17 pts · 152d
Except you’re on the “Alex jones” side here. You just can’t see because you’re a fed simp.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 152d
Lmao, you realize it's a state law right?
org@lemmy.org · -12 pts · 152d
StAtE gOvErNmEnT sImP
Just a magat by a different name.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 152d
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
org@lemmy.org · -13 pts · 152d
So many magats wow
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 152d
Brilliant. I'd like to see how the very uninformed legislators deal with this. They will have to publically re-argue first principles
groet@feddit.org · 1 pts · 151d
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.
Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 151d
I think the grandparent was being sarchastic mate
Edit: at least I hope
msspwn@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 152d
Amazing. Where are the build instructions
parson0@startrek.website · 3 pts · 152d
Coming in Q3
jdr@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 151d
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
pglpm@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 152d
Brilliant! 💪
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 151d
What in leftist infighting hell is even happening in this comment section?
Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 151d
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
tristynalxander@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 151d
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 150d
Radical centrism
Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 151d
Cool name for a band
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 151d
Why can't rest of the world just cancel California.
Four_mile_circus@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 152d
Kaelygon@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 151d