You people have gone insane.
Stop trying to control every atom of existence and every move people make.
You're sick in the head, not visionaries, not thought leaders.
Go plant a garden and get back in touch with the real world.
No, NOT FARMVILLE!
> genuine question - why was this code pushed now
Zuckerberg has aggressively been bribing politicians to enact this at the State level.
Several news stories about it though you have to search for terms like 'lobbying' and 'Meta' as fig leaves.
We are obligated to ignore stupid laws. To mock them, to flaunt them and ultimately get them removed.
We are not sheep.
An exception is the Zeropatch technique where they dynamically update machine code of the OS in memory on the fly for folks who can't tolerate downtime.
It's certainly not common on unix systems.
Or an IoT device running a 2.6 kernel that is never going to be updated.
Did Dolby break any countermeasures of Snap's copyrighted code in what would appear to be a significant reverse-engineering effort to make this determination?
Or do they only have a suspicion?
This scenario reminds me of the SCO lawsuits when the progress of technology made that company obsolete.
Everyone's (rightfully) bitching about this, and I agree, but none of that solves the problem.
What's the alternative? Give me a TV brand that gives you, ideally, a dumb TV, but alternatively a decent smart TV that is easy to work with.
Responsiveness is an important, and often overlooked, characteristic. It's important.
Brand/model recommendations; go!
Count the number of "former" intelligence officials on his company's board.
Then search for the many photos of him mouth-kissing his father and son (RIP).
They use both carrots and sticks to control compromised people.
I took mine apart and there were two separate display modules for the 4K screen with ribbon cables I didn't recognize so I just put it back together and stuck in an HDMI streaming stick flashed to LineageOS.
I got one around 2008. They were the best of the non-premium 1080p HDMI screens at the time.
The one I got had slightly better test review scores on display quality than the LG that year. The Sony was 20% better for 3x the price.
It lasted about twelve years and by then a bigger 4K with much brighter colors was half the cost in nominal dollars, so probably 1/4 the cost in real terms.
And by then cheap flashable streaming sticks were available as was pihole and fairly easy outbound NAT rewriting rules to keep the beasts contained.
Well nothing we think of as "critical infrastructure" is using consumer routers - and if it were that could and should be remedied quickly without a ban on consumer routers.
So
The best fit is probably an Internet Drivers License and mandatory packet signing for a surveillance control grid and CBDC coming down the pike rapidly.
When in the course of Human Events....
Yeah, not sure if you remember the Vegan Crossfit Pythonistas.
Instead of saying, "we could write a program to..." they would dogmatically intone, "we could write a Python script to..." in almost every situation.
Not sure who taught them the NLP but their dedication was a fervor.
A whole lot of rewriting of fast, debugged, working code got rewritten by them just because Perl, Ruby, and Bash felt like heresy.. For a while python stacktraces were the error message of common use on Fedora.
Now that we know that Meta lobbied for all of these simultaneous "age verification" laws he's losing what little support he still had.
Have you seen that interview where he just has a bottle of barbecue sauce on his bookshelf?
To make him "relatable" they say?
There's a decades old cartoon that asks, "how would you like your tyranny wrapped, in 'stopping terrorism' or 'protecting the children'?
2025 edit: 'stopping antisemitism' as that's all DoJCRD seems to know about.
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. Space is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen to you.
