#agegating — Public Fediverse posts

Hello good morning ✨ In This Edition:

📟 Short-Form Content:
Of eyeballs for "human verification;" yes can I please get a venti oh shoot I didn't prompt it right; and age gating 🤝 Android getting locked down 🤝 anti-3D printing bills.

📰 Long-Form Content:
Age Gating isn't It, Fam

🌞 Good News!:
Open printers and repairable e-readers; the people are pushing back on slop factories and mandatory ID apps; the EU bans their staff from using AI-generated visuals in official comms; disentangling yourself from "Sign in with Google."

📯 The Post-Script:
Do I belong in tech anymore?; Sam Altman and eyeballs; and how our digital devices put our privacy at risk.

https://technically-good.ca/newsletter/007-2026-04-26/

#tech #newsletter #TechnicallyGood #ageGating #ageVerification #digitalSovereignty #privacy

Hello good morning ✨ In This Edition:

📟 Short-Form Content:
Of eyeballs for "human verification;" yes can I please get a venti oh shoot I didn't prompt it right; and age gating 🤝 Android getting locked down 🤝 anti-3D printing bills.

📰 Long-Form Content:
Age Gating isn't It, Fam

🌞 Good News!:
Open printers and repairable e-readers; the people are pushing back on slop factories and mandatory ID apps; the EU bans their staff from using AI-generated visuals in official comms; disentangling yourself from "Sign in with Google."

📯 The Post-Script:
Do I belong in tech anymore?; Sam Altman and eyeballs; and how our digital devices put our privacy at risk.

https://technically-good.ca/newsletter/007-2026-04-26/

#tech #newsletter #TechnicallyGood #ageGating #ageVerification #digitalSovereignty #privacy

Hello good morning ✨ In This Edition:

📟 Short-Form Content:
Of eyeballs for "human verification;" yes can I please get a venti oh shoot I didn't prompt it right; and age gating 🤝 Android getting locked down 🤝 anti-3D printing bills.

📰 Long-Form Content:
Age Gating isn't It, Fam

🌞 Good News!:
Open printers and repairable e-readers; the people are pushing back on slop factories and mandatory ID apps; the EU bans their staff from using AI-generated visuals in official comms; disentangling yourself from "Sign in with Google."

📯 The Post-Script:
Do I belong in tech anymore?; Sam Altman and eyeballs; and how our digital devices put our privacy at risk.

https://technically-good.ca/newsletter/007-2026-04-26/

#tech #newsletter #TechnicallyGood #ageGating #ageVerification #digitalSovereignty #privacy

Hello good morning ✨ In This Edition:

📟 Short-Form Content:
Of eyeballs for "human verification;" yes can I please get a venti oh shoot I didn't prompt it right; and age gating 🤝 Android getting locked down 🤝 anti-3D printing bills.

📰 Long-Form Content:
Age Gating isn't It, Fam

🌞 Good News!:
Open printers and repairable e-readers; the people are pushing back on slop factories and mandatory ID apps; the EU bans their staff from using AI-generated visuals in official comms; disentangling yourself from "Sign in with Google."

📯 The Post-Script:
Do I belong in tech anymore?; Sam Altman and eyeballs; and how our digital devices put our privacy at risk.

https://technically-good.ca/newsletter/007-2026-04-26/

#tech #newsletter #TechnicallyGood #ageGating #ageVerification #digitalSovereignty #privacy

Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile

LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.

4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future

A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.

4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag

I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.

4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag

I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.

4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag

I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.

4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena

My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.

4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi

Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.

4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag

I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.

Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile

LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.

4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future

A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.

4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag

I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.

4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag

I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.

4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag

I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.

4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena

My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.

4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi

Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.

4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag

I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.

Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile

LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.

4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future

A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.

4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag

I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.

4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag

I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.

4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag

I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.

4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena

My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.

4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi

Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.

4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag

I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.

Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile

LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.

4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future

A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.

4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag

I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.

4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag

I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.

4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag

I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.

4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena

My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.

4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi

Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.

4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag

I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.

Weekly output: Internet Archive, Roblox parental controls, Google travel-search tools, T-Mobile yanks free WiFi from United flights, Mark Vena podcast, talking to local user groups, AST SpaceMobile

LAS VEGAS–I’m typing this from a press room in the Las Vegas Convention Center barely three months after I spent too much time in that facility for CES. Credit or blame for this trip goes to a different Washington-area trade group, the National Association of Broadcasters. Tuesday, I will be moderating an NAB Show panel about the state of content creation that features two people who are better at Instagram than me: Juliana Broste and my fellow former USA Today columnist Jefferson Graham.

4/13/2026: Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record, Fight for the Future

A staffer with Public Knowledge e-mailed me a few weeks ago to ask if I would be willing to sign a letter supporting the Internet Archive’s efforts to preserve the history of the Web and possibly provide a quote about how I’d used the Archive. Having repeatedly relied on the Archive’s Wayback Machine to link back to my own past published work, I said I would be happy to do that–having already donated $100 to that San Francisco non-profit in January.

4/13/2026: Roblox Adds Account Restrictions for Younger Users, Expands Age Verification, PCMag

I attended a press roundtable Monday morning featuring some Roblox trust-and-safety executives, allowing me to enrich this writeup of the platform’s changes with quotes from that conversation.

4/15/2026: T-Mobile Grounds Free In-Flight Wi-Fi Benefit for United Airlines Passengers, PCMag

I had the dumb luck to see this change firsthand on a flight from Denver to San Jose Tuesday, then needed the rest of that day to get some responses from T-Mobile and United. The airline’s switch to free Starlink connectivity will fix this problem, but we are months away from that rollout reaching a significant fraction of United’s mainline fleet.

4/17/2026: Like It or Not, Google Wants to Be Your AI Travel Buddy This Summer, PCMag

I wrote up this post off an embargoed copy of Google’s announcement that we had to correct the next day because I had missed two of the finer points of this bundle of news. In my halfhearted defense, it is more work than you might realize keeping track of Google’s ongoing efforts to infuse AI into its existing services.

4/17/2026: How NTT Research’s Upgrade 2026 Helps Silicon Valley Get Ready for The Future, Mark Vena

My industry-analyst pal had do a quick video from NTT Research’s Upgrade conference in San Jose, Calif.–with that firm covering my travel costs–about some of its initiatives.

4/18/2026: 2026 Consumer Electronics Show and Lots More!, Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group/Washington Apple Pi

Despite that title–picked by the organizers at PATACS, pronounced “Pat-Aces”–I spent more time talking about other topics. Among them: my switch from Evernote to Obsidian just in time for CES, the sad state of tech policy in Washington, and my takes on self-driving cars and what’s befallen the Washington Post. As I have in previous appearances before these folks, I showed up with a bag of trade-show swag and gave away all of it.

4/19/2026: Blue Origin Rocket Launches, Then Loses AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Satellite, PCMag

I watched the third launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket on my phone as I was walking up to the security checkpoint at Dulles early Sunday morning, started writing up what I thought was a successful launch, then learned–via painfully slow inflight WiFi–that New Glenn’s second stage had failed to deliver AST’s mobile-broadband BlueBird satellite to the intended orbit. This is a real black eye for Blue that should outweigh its achievement in reflying a New Glenn booster and then landing it on a barge in the Atlantic.

Age gating isn't it.

1. it is a thinly-veiled surveillance information grab
2. it's a digital sovereignty issue
3. online communities can be Good, Actually
4. ... it's probably not going to work
5. age gating means dancing around the real issue of holding Big Tech accountable

(also includes tips for how to get in touch with your representatives if you are Canadian and would like to voice your opposition. The time to do that is right now!)

https://technically-good.ca/blog/2026-04-age-gating-isnt-it/

#ageGating #ageVerification #surveillance #privacy #socialMedia

Age gating isn't it.

1. it is a thinly-veiled surveillance information grab
2. it's a digital sovereignty issue
3. online communities can be Good, Actually
4. ... it's probably not going to work
5. age gating means dancing around the real issue of holding Big Tech accountable

(also includes tips for how to get in touch with your representatives if you are Canadian and would like to voice your opposition. The time to do that is right now!)

https://technically-good.ca/blog/2026-04-age-gating-isnt-it/

#ageGating #ageVerification #surveillance #privacy #socialMedia

Age gating isn't it.

1. it is a thinly-veiled surveillance information grab
2. it's a digital sovereignty issue
3. online communities can be Good, Actually
4. ... it's probably not going to work
5. age gating means dancing around the real issue of holding Big Tech accountable

(also includes tips for how to get in touch with your representatives if you are Canadian and would like to voice your opposition. The time to do that is right now!)

https://technically-good.ca/blog/2026-04-age-gating-isnt-it/

#ageGating #ageVerification #surveillance #privacy #socialMedia

Age gating isn't it.

1. it is a thinly-veiled surveillance information grab
2. it's a digital sovereignty issue
3. online communities can be Good, Actually
4. ... it's probably not going to work
5. age gating means dancing around the real issue of holding Big Tech accountable

(also includes tips for how to get in touch with your representatives if you are Canadian and would like to voice your opposition. The time to do that is right now!)

https://technically-good.ca/blog/2026-04-age-gating-isnt-it/

#ageGating #ageVerification #surveillance #privacy #socialMedia

438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/14/438-experts-said-age-verification-is-dangerous-legislators-are-moving-forward-with-it-anyway/

438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/14/438-experts-said-age-verification-is-dangerous-legislators-are-moving-forward-with-it-anyway/

438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/14/438-experts-said-age-verification-is-dangerous-legislators-are-moving-forward-with-it-anyway/

438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/14/438-experts-said-age-verification-is-dangerous-legislators-are-moving-forward-with-it-anyway/

「子供のソーシャルメディア禁止法」は何を履き違えているのか

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://p2ptk.org/privacy/5527

「子供のソーシャルメディア禁止法」は何を履き違えているのか

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://p2ptk.org/privacy/5527

「子供のソーシャルメディア禁止法」は何を履き違えているのか

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://p2ptk.org/privacy/5527

「子供のソーシャルメディア禁止法」は何を履き違えているのか

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://p2ptk.org/privacy/5527

Well, we don't decide what the customers decide to ship, or where it goes. We don't enforce policy like that; our job is just to provide a neutral platform for others to use to accomplish their goals. We don't even know what they ship - we just build the train cars. We don't even know where Bergen-Belsen is.

This is a post about #systemd.

#AgeVerification #AgeGate #AgeGating #identification #deanonymization #anonymous #fascism #fascist #compliance #ComplyInAdvance #DoNotComply #DoNotComplyInAdvance #resistance #freedom #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #coconspirator #accomplice #DeathCamp #ConcentrationCamp

Well, we don't decide what the customers decide to ship, or where it goes. We don't enforce policy like that; our job is just to provide a neutral platform for others to use to accomplish their goals. We don't even know what they ship - we just build the train cars. We don't even know where Bergen-Belsen is.

This is a post about #systemd.

#AgeVerification #AgeGate #AgeGating #identification #deanonymization #anonymous #fascism #fascist #compliance #ComplyInAdvance #DoNotComply #DoNotComplyInAdvance #resistance #freedom #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #coconspirator #accomplice #DeathCamp #ConcentrationCamp

Well, we don't decide what the customers decide to ship, or where it goes. We don't enforce policy like that; our job is just to provide a neutral platform for others to use to accomplish their goals. We don't even know what they ship - we just build the train cars. We don't even know where Bergen-Belsen is.

This is a post about #systemd.

#AgeVerification #AgeGate #AgeGating #identification #deanonymization #anonymous #fascism #fascist #compliance #ComplyInAdvance #DoNotComply #DoNotComplyInAdvance #resistance #freedom #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #coconspirator #accomplice #DeathCamp #ConcentrationCamp

Well, we don't decide what the customers decide to ship, or where it goes. We don't enforce policy like that; our job is just to provide a neutral platform for others to use to accomplish their goals. We don't even know what they ship - we just build the train cars. We don't even know where Bergen-Belsen is.

This is a post about #systemd.

#AgeVerification #AgeGate #AgeGating #identification #deanonymization #anonymous #fascism #fascist #compliance #ComplyInAdvance #DoNotComply #DoNotComplyInAdvance #resistance #freedom #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #coconspirator #accomplice #DeathCamp #ConcentrationCamp

Ageless Linux

An interesting response to unworkable, ill-advised and ultimately pointless age gating for OS providers.

Everyone will eventually be taught to lie about their age. Everyone will have a birthday on the 1st January 1970.

https://agelesslinux.org/

#Linux #AgeGating #Protest

Ageless Linux

An interesting response to unworkable, ill-advised and ultimately pointless age gating for OS providers.

Everyone will eventually be taught to lie about their age. Everyone will have a birthday on the 1st January 1970.

https://agelesslinux.org/

#Linux #AgeGating #Protest

Ageless Linux

An interesting response to unworkable, ill-advised and ultimately pointless age gating for OS providers.

Everyone will eventually be taught to lie about their age. Everyone will have a birthday on the 1st January 1970.

https://agelesslinux.org/

#Linux #AgeGating #Protest

Ageless Linux

An interesting response to unworkable, ill-advised and ultimately pointless age gating for OS providers.

Everyone will eventually be taught to lie about their age. Everyone will have a birthday on the 1st January 1970.

https://agelesslinux.org/

#Linux #AgeGating #Protest

14 year old Max has the right diagnosis (designed to maximise engagement), politicians have wrong solution (bans which require everyone to be policed on the internet). The problem is the business model so politicians need to regulate *that*.
#SocialMedia #AgeGating #OverPolicing #AttentionEconomy

https://news.sky.com/story/is-social-media-messing-up-our-kids-spains-battle-against-doomscrolling-schoolchildren-13509592

14 year old Max has the right diagnosis (designed to maximise engagement), politicians have wrong solution (bans which require everyone to be policed on the internet). The problem is the business model so politicians need to regulate *that*.
#SocialMedia #AgeGating #OverPolicing #AttentionEconomy

https://news.sky.com/story/is-social-media-messing-up-our-kids-spains-battle-against-doomscrolling-schoolchildren-13509592

14 year old Max has the right diagnosis (designed to maximise engagement), politicians have wrong solution (bans which require everyone to be policed on the internet). The problem is the business model so politicians need to regulate *that*.
#SocialMedia #AgeGating #OverPolicing #AttentionEconomy

https://news.sky.com/story/is-social-media-messing-up-our-kids-spains-battle-against-doomscrolling-schoolchildren-13509592

14 year old Max has the right diagnosis (designed to maximise engagement), politicians have wrong solution (bans which require everyone to be policed on the internet). The problem is the business model so politicians need to regulate *that*.
#SocialMedia #AgeGating #OverPolicing #AttentionEconomy

https://news.sky.com/story/is-social-media-messing-up-our-kids-spains-battle-against-doomscrolling-schoolchildren-13509592

Another failed attempt at fining a American company. #Ofcom #Agegating

Reddit fined £14m by UK data watchdog over age verification checks | BBC News

https://youtu.be/rg-M2r396bE?si=Jn3GE4vFWYvAVJta

Thanks to Pirat_nation and Mr_T for sharing this.

A bill sponsored by State Senator Matt Ball and State Representative Amy Paschal (both Democrats) would require operating systems to provide "Age Attestation".

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051

Firstly, if I understand the bill correctly, the correct term is age-gating:

PROVIDE AN ACCESSIBLE INTERFACE AT ACCOUNT SETUP THAT REQUIRES AN ACCOUNT HOLDER TO INDICATE THE BIRTH DATE OR AGE OF THE USER OF THAT DEVICE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AN AGE SIGNAL TO APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE IN A COVERED APPLICATION STORE

Also known as self-declaration, age-gating means requiring users to self-declare their age or birth date before accessing a site.

Or in this case, when setting up an OS-level account.
Age assurance would also be an acceptable term, as it covers all forms of detecting a user's age.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/to-read-this--please-upload-photo-id

As I understand it, it requires all operating systems to ask for their user's age when creating a new account. That age can then be accessed by applications on the device, who are required to use it unless they have evidence the user is a different age. Applications are forbidden from sharing this information with a third party for purposes other than age assurance.
Any OS-level account created before 1 January 2028 is required to verify its user's age before 1 July 2028.

Violations may be punished with up to $2,500 in civil fines, unless the violation was intentional, in which case the fine is up to $7,500.

#Colorado #AgeAssurance #AgeGating

Thanks to Pirat_nation and Mr_T for sharing this.

A bill sponsored by State Senator Matt Ball and State Representative Amy Paschal (both Democrats) would require operating systems to provide "Age Attestation".

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051

Firstly, if I understand the bill correctly, the correct term is age-gating:

PROVIDE AN ACCESSIBLE INTERFACE AT ACCOUNT SETUP THAT REQUIRES AN ACCOUNT HOLDER TO INDICATE THE BIRTH DATE OR AGE OF THE USER OF THAT DEVICE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AN AGE SIGNAL TO APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE IN A COVERED APPLICATION STORE

Also known as self-declaration, age-gating means requiring users to self-declare their age or birth date before accessing a site.

Or in this case, when setting up an OS-level account.
Age assurance would also be an acceptable term, as it covers all forms of detecting a user's age.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/to-read-this--please-upload-photo-id

As I understand it, it requires all operating systems to ask for their user's age when creating a new account. That age can then be accessed by applications on the device, who are required to use it unless they have evidence the user is a different age. Applications are forbidden from sharing this information with a third party for purposes other than age assurance.
Any OS-level account created before 1 January 2028 is required to verify its user's age before 1 July 2028.

Violations may be punished with up to $2,500 in civil fines, unless the violation was intentional, in which case the fine is up to $7,500.

#Colorado #AgeAssurance #AgeGating

Thanks to Pirat_nation and Mr_T for sharing this.

A bill sponsored by State Senator Matt Ball and State Representative Amy Paschal (both Democrats) would require operating systems to provide "Age Attestation".

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051

Firstly, if I understand the bill correctly, the correct term is age-gating:

PROVIDE AN ACCESSIBLE INTERFACE AT ACCOUNT SETUP THAT REQUIRES AN ACCOUNT HOLDER TO INDICATE THE BIRTH DATE OR AGE OF THE USER OF THAT DEVICE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AN AGE SIGNAL TO APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE IN A COVERED APPLICATION STORE

Also known as self-declaration, age-gating means requiring users to self-declare their age or birth date before accessing a site.

Or in this case, when setting up an OS-level account.
Age assurance would also be an acceptable term, as it covers all forms of detecting a user's age.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/to-read-this--please-upload-photo-id

As I understand it, it requires all operating systems to ask for their user's age when creating a new account. That age can then be accessed by applications on the device, who are required to use it unless they have evidence the user is a different age. Applications are forbidden from sharing this information with a third party for purposes other than age assurance.
Any OS-level account created before 1 January 2028 is required to verify its user's age before 1 July 2028.

Violations may be punished with up to $2,500 in civil fines, unless the violation was intentional, in which case the fine is up to $7,500.

#Colorado #AgeAssurance #AgeGating

Thanks to Pirat_nation and Mr_T for sharing this.

A bill sponsored by State Senator Matt Ball and State Representative Amy Paschal (both Democrats) would require operating systems to provide "Age Attestation".

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051

Firstly, if I understand the bill correctly, the correct term is age-gating:

PROVIDE AN ACCESSIBLE INTERFACE AT ACCOUNT SETUP THAT REQUIRES AN ACCOUNT HOLDER TO INDICATE THE BIRTH DATE OR AGE OF THE USER OF THAT DEVICE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AN AGE SIGNAL TO APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE IN A COVERED APPLICATION STORE

Also known as self-declaration, age-gating means requiring users to self-declare their age or birth date before accessing a site.

Or in this case, when setting up an OS-level account.
Age assurance would also be an acceptable term, as it covers all forms of detecting a user's age.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/to-read-this--please-upload-photo-id

As I understand it, it requires all operating systems to ask for their user's age when creating a new account. That age can then be accessed by applications on the device, who are required to use it unless they have evidence the user is a different age. Applications are forbidden from sharing this information with a third party for purposes other than age assurance.
Any OS-level account created before 1 January 2028 is required to verify its user's age before 1 July 2028.

Violations may be punished with up to $2,500 in civil fines, unless the violation was intentional, in which case the fine is up to $7,500.

#Colorado #AgeAssurance #AgeGating

With news that the #UK is considering #ageGating #VPNs, here's your periodic reminder that you don't need to pay a #VPN service (and potentially have to do an age-check, in future) to have a VPN.

For the last ten years, I've just been spinning up cheap VMs running #WireGuard on cloud providers when I need a VPN, and then throwing them away afterwards, for a cost of usually less than 8 cents (USD) per hour.

🔗 Here's how: https://danq.me/run-your-own-wireguard-vpn

With news that the #UK is considering #ageGating #VPNs, here's your periodic reminder that you don't need to pay a #VPN service (and potentially have to do an age-check, in future) to have a VPN.

For the last ten years, I've just been spinning up cheap VMs running #WireGuard on cloud providers when I need a VPN, and then throwing them away afterwards, for a cost of usually less than 8 cents (USD) per hour.

🔗 Here's how: https://danq.me/run-your-own-wireguard-vpn

With news that the #UK is considering #ageGating #VPNs, here's your periodic reminder that you don't need to pay a #VPN service (and potentially have to do an age-check, in future) to have a VPN.

For the last ten years, I've just been spinning up cheap VMs running #WireGuard on cloud providers when I need a VPN, and then throwing them away afterwards, for a cost of usually less than 8 cents (USD) per hour.

🔗 Here's how: https://danq.me/run-your-own-wireguard-vpn

With news that the #UK is considering #ageGating #VPNs, here's your periodic reminder that you don't need to pay a #VPN service (and potentially have to do an age-check, in future) to have a VPN.

For the last ten years, I've just been spinning up cheap VMs running #WireGuard on cloud providers when I need a VPN, and then throwing them away afterwards, for a cost of usually less than 8 cents (USD) per hour.

🔗 Here's how: https://danq.me/run-your-own-wireguard-vpn

Flooding the zone is once again the preferred tactic of choice for pushing abusive legislation in #Portugal

Not as egregious as 100+ changes to labor laws, but PSD still couldn't resist sneaking in #ChatControl together with #AgeGating whatever online platforms the state wants to surveil.

Flooding the zone is once again the preferred tactic of choice for pushing abusive legislation in #Portugal

Not as egregious as 100+ changes to labor laws, but PSD still couldn't resist sneaking in #ChatControl together with #AgeGating whatever online platforms the state wants to surveil.

Flooding the zone is once again the preferred tactic of choice for pushing abusive legislation in #Portugal

Not as egregious as 100+ changes to labor laws, but PSD still couldn't resist sneaking in #ChatControl together with #AgeGating whatever online platforms the state wants to surveil.

Flooding the zone is once again the preferred tactic of choice for pushing abusive legislation in #Portugal

Not as egregious as 100+ changes to labor laws, but PSD still couldn't resist sneaking in #ChatControl together with #AgeGating whatever online platforms the state wants to surveil.

So, You’ve Hit An Age Gate. What Now?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/so-youve-hit-an-age-gate-what-now/

So, You’ve Hit An Age Gate. What Now?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/so-youve-hit-an-age-gate-what-now/

So, You’ve Hit An Age Gate. What Now?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/so-youve-hit-an-age-gate-what-now/

So, You’ve Hit An Age Gate. What Now?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/so-youve-hit-an-age-gate-what-now/