"There's no call for that sort of crap."

Depends on who you threaten. Celebrating Charlie Kirk's death should be treason punishable by death, celebrating Robert Mueller's death? Just another day. Death threats against doctors at health clinics A-OK, it just depends on who does the threatenin'

Anything can go away. People need to realize who the enemy is and what the rules actually are. We now have a Constitution that does not apply to the President, we have major media that is corrupted by billionaires and controlled by political parties, we now have a corrupt Supreme Court with a supermajority of partisan, Catholic justices. Linux can go away tomorrow, just like citizens can be gunned down in the streets and military veterans can get deported. Go ahead, connect that contraband Linux box to the internet, nothing bad will happen, right?

I'm sure Elon Musk will have an answer though. Just buy the Musk linux edition he invented. He's world's foremost linux authority, after all, and no one knows free speech like he does. Probably worth a 100B government contract.

Why keep saying "politicians" here? I know why, just look who posted it.

Age verification is an outgrowth of the christian nationalism, it is a core part of Republican identity politics. Stop voting Republican and stop supporting politically active chiurches. Bet you won't say that though. Instead, you need to pretend that Democrats are to blame...in Florida!

"...does very little to prevent children from accessing adult material online. "

It's not intended to. Its purpose is to own the libs. You should know about that.

Right, it is a non-functional solution that fails to solve ANY problem. Great virtue signaling though!

Requiriing a trusted source other than the OS (because the OS cannot do it) does not mean that age is not the OSes "business", it means that two components have it as their "business".

But understand that in this case, some people want other people to break the law. They aren't willing to be accountable themselves.

No he didn't. What evidence do you have that says otherwise? Particularly when the remedy is to break the law.

It is when the government says it is. Literally the easiest question there is.

Elaborate. Why does this law need to be "worked around"? And how does NOT adding age information in a database serve that purpose? In what world does a judge accept an argument that there isn't a way to determine age because there isn't an entry in a database? Or that an entry cannot be added on a judge's order? Just what argument gets won because of your "workaround"?

It appears you claim to be an "actual adult" here, too bad you lack the intellect of one.

Slavery was once legal because there were not laws AGAINST it. Laws don't make things legal, they make them illegal.

"Having a plan is great but this fight is far from over."

Not sure what you mean by not over, but there are ways to fight unjust laws besides committing crimes.

"They run as a rectangular banner at the bottom — part of a widget that also shows news, the weather and a calendar. "

False, they run in an optional screen saver, not when the display is being used for interaction. It's not a "widget", it's a screen saver, and only a transitional one.

"...and that overall pushback has been negligible."

Right, because the ads run in a screen saver, and no one sees the screen saver. They've walked away already.

"Bosworth thinks it's wrong to take away the new feature as a condition."

The screen saver is NOT a "new feature", and most users aren't aware it exists. I personally have not seen it.

"Wanting to keep the widget but not the ads..."

He wants to see an animation for 2 minutes before his screen goes dark? After he's done using the fridge? Please.

"He hasn't seen another since."

I've never seen one at all. That's because I use the fridge and then leave, just like everyone else.

"One 27-year-old plans to return his refrigerator after the entire display "lit up with a full-screen ad for Apple TV's sci-fi show Pluribus," according to the article. The all-caps ad beckoned him "with an oft-used refrain directed at protagonist Carol Sturka: 'We're Sorry We Upset You, Carol.'""

Doubt it. This article is really trying to lie to you.

funny how this /. webpage has 5 ads on it, wonder how many yours had when you posted that?

There's nothing wrong with using AI tools to review code and identify issues, real humans will review those issues and solutions after all. It's a far cry from what the AI industry claims AI tools will be useful for, specifically writing all the code in the first place.

Writing good code requires creativity, hard work and accountability; reviewing code is all over the map, it doesn't require creativity and does not come with accountability. Sounds like something AI might be suited for.

Have you ever noticed why no one celebrates Patch Tuesday in the pub? It's because they're waiting by consoles waiting for stuff to break.

Windows, client and server, are a house of cards. This goes far back in history. The citations you challenge are each provably wrong. Ever wonder why the cloud isn't rife with Windows servers? There's a reason for that. Cloud Native Windows is almost an oxymoron. Linux and to a lesser extent, BSD, have taken over that space.

In so many ways, Windows is now a legacy data OS in data centers and for good reason. It's developer community has all but collapsed. It's backwards compatibility with other house-of-cards platforms like dot-net have put ball-and-chains around its neck.

The additions of tawdry pre-release-in-production AI with Co-Pilot causes new train wrecks each and every day.

No serious services developer uses Windows as a new development platform. The metaphors you diss are a dodge. You know exactly what the remarks are about. Windows continues to be a sieve for security. Linux and BSD are far more difficult to breach, correctly configured-- and it doesn't take much.

As a developer, if you are one, Microsoft is putting you to the pasture. Have fun eating oats.

Apple has never offered a product that justified a large chassis. It used to be lots of slots, hard drives and other storage that justified it. Macs have never been about that, and those days are long gone.

"...used to be a reasonably affordable machine for the capabilities it offered."

No, for the reasons above. Macs never offered these capabilities before and doesn't now. Apple's vision has always been a "Studio", a "trash can", the big desk side chassis with 4 hard drive bays never made sense.