Thanks for making my point for me there bro

I'm going to go ahead and assume bad faith on your part, because otherwise you're very stupid. But nobody in your potential audience is stupid enough to believe there aren't lasting effects to being bombed to shit.

I take your point about this being before the dawn of ubiquitous tech companies, but what kind of chilling effect did the Bell monopoly have?

Do you think about me when you're jerking off, too? I know you do.

It would take an AI to not get bored trying to construct working configs for SElinux

I think age verification at the OS level is a good idea, if it's implemented in a safe, offline, private way. I've explained my idea a few times using two enclaves to perform pattern matches, which I won't get into. The reality is some services should know your age, if a clerk at the convince store can tell if you're 18 before you buy a rub-and-tug magazine, or beer, why can't OnlyFans, or Fetlife?

Let me be clear, I'm talking about sensible, offline, secure, and private age verification. The system will know you're between 18-30, or 30-45, or some other bracket, and not know how old explicitly you are.

Perhaps you did not buy a Tesla. They are probably the most service-hostile vehicle ever sold in the US. Not sure about the UK, I haven't heard stories (horror or otherwise) about service for Chinese EVs yet. They would have to try really hard to be worse than Tesla, though.

Stallman won't mind, he's always said Open Source is free, as in beer. We have to stop associating Open Source with Libre Source, since giving your software out for free, is different from publishing the source code. I've said many times I support Open Source, but I don't think you have to give your work away from free, you have every right to charge, but the user has the right to verify.

I probably give LibreOffice more money in donations a year, than a basic MS 365 license would cost me, and that's fine because I like the product, and the mission. There are plenty of Open-Source products I use, that I donate to because being Open Source does not mean you're Libre Source. Open Source is about being accountable, verifiable, autiable, trustable, not ripped off and abused, and that's where the problem is.

I like to break the terms down, so I'll say: "Open-Source", "Open-Audit", and "Free", as three different statements. You could be "Open-Audit", and "Closed-Source". You could be "Closed-Audit", and "Open-Source", but charge for the software, there's nothing wrong with that. We need to stop mixing terms together, to spite how they may have been used in the past.

Google xkcd extrapolate

s/best/only/

No, I remember owning a calculator watch with phone directory because I could never remember phone numbers, outside of a few I used all the time. Then I got a cellphone and now I don't need to wear a watch.

Simp harder

With three wheels? No doubt they will, insert clip of Reliant Robins here :D

I'd love to see Meta et al's business models banned completely, for everyone... not just kids.

The "engagement plus targeted ads" model should be illegal. It's obviously hugely detrimental to social media users and to society in general.

However, this is likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court. Meta can kick enough funding to the Trump regime to ensure a favorable SCOTUS ruling, and then it'll be business as usual for Zuckopath.

How are you going to make this work? Instead of focusing on single product age verification, why not make a stable, offline, and secure age validation system, and then be able to tell to the battery, for instance you're old enough? I still don't think it's a good idea, but trying to build out a separate infrastructure to verify / validate something like this is stupid.