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- Comment on US regulator won't follow Europe's lead and stick higher age ratings on games with loot boxes and daily quests, since it might confuse parents 5 hours ago:
“Daily quests”? You mean like how in Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald you get a berry per day from some NPCs and can check once per day whether Mirage Island was visible…? (I remember a phase in my childhood where I did that every day.) Or whatever is meant by this?
- Comment on 4Chan responds to £520,000 Ofcom fine with AI picture of hamster 12 hours ago:
I hope the UK one day becomes a less anti-freedom country because I would really find it interesting to travel there, but things like this are killing my desire to do so.
John Perry Barlow got it right 30 years ago: www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
- Comment on System76 fighting for open source being excluded from Colorado age checks 1 week ago:
As much as I like open source software, I do not think that these kinds of bills are legitimate even for closed source software.
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- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 1 week ago:
Alright, I agree with you that modern “social media recommendation algorithms” are a bad thing that shouldn’t have been invented, if that is what you’re getting at.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 1 week ago:
I definitely agree with all of that.
But if you “learned the shortcuts to hide” what you were doing, then you were clearly accessing things you actively wanted to see, which was my entire point.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 1 week ago:
OK, if someone actively links me to it, then yes, but there’s also no solution to that because they could just send it (or a screenshot of it) directly to me and circumvent any filters there might be.
I’ve never clicked on a “hot singles in your area” ad, so no idea what that is about.
The entire Internet is of course IMHO about exploring and pursuing novel experiences; but how quickly do you imagine children can get from websites actively recommended by parents to shocking websites? Not very, I think?
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 2 weeks ago:
even I have been somewhat traumatized by accessing graphic content I shouldn’t have
Why did you access it if it made you feel bad? It is (and has been since I remember) very difficult to accidentally run across anything shocking on the Internet.
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- California’s AB 1043 Could Regulate Every Linux Command, and the Open Source World Is Too Quietshujisado.org ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
- Comment on Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act 2 weeks ago:
I’ve previously written that they should just challenge this in court because distributing operating systems is distributing software, is distributing information, is protected as freedom of speech.
What I wonder is why we are only hearing very much about this now that the law has already passed the legislature and been signed into law? Would not the right time have been before those things happened?
- Breaking Down the New Stupid Ageist Californian Law that Requires Age Verification at OS account setupblenderdumbass.org ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
- With developer verification, Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacyarstechnica.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 1 comment
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- Comment on Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy 3 weeks ago:
Yes, and it’s also a bad idea that has no place in a free society for many other reasons.
- Comment on Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy 3 weeks ago:
no you can’t “run your own” for very long if that means you are breaking the law and can be legally punished for not complying with laws like this :(
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 3 weeks ago:
A central principle of data protection is data minimization. Forcing any institution to store extra data in order to know whether they are old enough to consent to data processing is beyond absurd.
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 3 weeks ago:
data protection law as an excuse to require age verification, have we had that before anywhere?
- An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distributionkeepandroidopen.org ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
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- Comment on "Open source Windows" ReactOS is now 30 years old 1 month ago:
It’s not really suitable for production use yet. I ran it in a VM a few days ago, got a BSoD within a few minutes just from doing completely normal things.
As the other comment said, the main usefulness is the fact that there is already a lot of Windows-only software out there and it’s useful to have a way to run all of it on a FOSS operating system, even if Wine is for one reason or another not an option.
- Comment on Wikipedia’s Baltic Battle: Estonian Journalists Warn of Coordinated Pro-Soviet Edits, Lithuania Reports Similar Targeting 2 months ago:
why wikis are unsuitable for anything involving real-life disputes, part 398743425973947
- Comment on US | Supreme Court takes case that could strip FCC of authority to issue fines 2 months ago:
not what the article seems to be about?
commission fined the carriers for selling customer location data without their users’ consent
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- How Apple’s Key Tactic Could Prevent Japan’s Smartphone Act from Improving Browser Competitionopen-web-advocacy.org ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
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