This is unacceptable. And I’m sick of all the fucking workarounds to maintain basic privacy.
Also, if you think the Fediverse is gonna be safe from this, then I have bad news for you. Also, decentralized networks in general could be targeted by this sorta thing if what happened to A/I is any indication.
What happened to those Mastodon instances and to A/I is proof that even decentralized networks can be targeted by censorship.
True, the fediverse isn’t immune from oppressive governments having physical access to its servers or users.
It does, however, prevent easy worldwide censorship possible with corporate social media, especially those HQed/hosted in SilV.
I’m waiting for the selfie required logins. Right now, you log into YouTube or anything else with that user base and they want a selfie and a phone number. YouTube even asks for your address. You can skip. For now.
Sorta feels like iOS Face ID played a role in normalizing this for the general public
Selfies always read as less secure to me. Possibly problematic on bad days or Halloween.
Fingerprint or tapping a code makes more sense.
Oh, yeah. Like those memes with selfie logins to unlock a toilet or fridge.
You log in and then the AI agent will summarize what you’re watching and contact the authorities in case it flags you suspicious? How dystopian!
If it does it will be the last thing it does
My collection of hoarded media waits eagerly if this forces me to say goodbye to the internet outside of work obligations
Work is an interesting point. Maybe working with a computer (a till, a barcode scanner, a stock checker, a multimeter) will be the thing that gets people scooped up and compliant first - even if you are using a work device, on a work network, on the business premises. If you want the $10 an hour: “gotta scan your ID, or you can’t activate the wafflegrill”
Exactly. Hoard now, watch/read/listen later (and now as well).
snickers in arch linux
Giggles in Gentoo.
No, it won’t. Or I’d just uninstall that package.
Stallman calls this “Service as a Software Substitute” (SaaSS): users operate weak “thin clients” while the real computing happens on someone else’s server. He argues this creates dependence and oppression because users cannot control, inspect, modify, or reliably access the software handling their data. He develops this argument in “What Does That Server Really Serve?” (2010).
Stallman was right!
……about software at least.
The Linux exemptions in Cali and Colorado bring up something else if that gets followed on a broader scale: Can’t apps and services just start blocking Linux and start specifically demanding Windows or Mac?
My work programs from back when I was in accounting, uh, none of them work on Linux. They haven’t even started working on Linux versions.
If they can identify it, sure. But OS fingerprinting is not perfect through a browser, and can be tricked pretty readily.
Apps will get your age range from your operating system using an application programming interface (API). In other words, they’ll ask the operating system for your age range and get a response.
It’s likely. But I don’t know how much of an effort would be for a Linux based OS to have a pre-made token for that kind of thing.
Can’t apps and services just start blocking Linux and start specifically demanding Windows or Mac?
In principle? Yes. It could become a complete cryptographic attestation chain.
I don’t think we’re right on the edge of that rn. But years or decades from now? Who TF knows.
I could easily see things like Discord, Meta, Google, Reddit, and Twitter doing this if it came to that, for instance.
And nothing of value was lost.
Will someone just hurry up and build a wall around the usa?
We’re building it as fast as we can!
It needs a roof too.
Please don’t give our government more ideas, they might actually do it
The wall is for the rest of the world, the usa had its chance to be decent and chose to be the exact opposite for many decades. Now even with something as revolting as trump, the people still show no sign at all of ever waking up and being decent.
Claudia Sheinbaum suddenly sits up in bed, in a cold sweat
“¡Mierda! ¡Teníamos con qué pagarlo!”
I was born in 1900. I said that the first time I entered a porn site and if something I will be consistent all my life.
Scaned ID will never be targeted by hackers in order to set up some massive identity fraud, right? Or even if they try, the vibe coded online verification would be so secured that it is impossible for hackers to steal the datas, for once, isn’t it?
Who could already tell that it would be a massive security breach?
Future keep so big surprises for us ̂ ̂
And I’m sure there’s no chance the info won’t just be sold off to some AI company at the first possible opportunity. Also a reminder that when Musk was doing his DOGE thing they were just dropping into government offices and installing their own servers that do who-knows-what.
bet you $100 it won’t?
Oh well back to C64
Lol, run a real OS you technotards. I use arch Linux btw.
Cool kids use Omarchy! Go kill yourself!
mine won’t :)
