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  1. The Real Reason Behind Online Age Verification Laws

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZTeEN2HT0

    What does online age verification laws actually have to do with the ENABLING of collecting data from children, China's surveillance and censorship laws, and the profits of companies like Facebook, Apple, and Google? A lot more than you think.

    In this episode of Plain Meaning, I break down the real agenda behind the push for operating system age verification. From California's Digital Age Assurance Act to federal proposals in Congress, they have come from the same source. I trace who benefits, what laws get quietly gutted in the process, and why the timing lines up suspiciously with China's own digital surveillance rollout.

    What you'll learn:
    — Why Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta all win if these laws pass
    — How age verification effectively nullifies existing laws that protect you and your children like COPPA and the Privacy Act of 1974
    — What already happened in the UK under the Online Safety Act — and why it matters for America
    — The striking parallels between Apple's product rollouts and China's surveillance
    — Why this isn't about protecting kids at all but more about removing the remaining barriers SO THEY CAN TRACK THEM

    This is Part 1 of the Plain Meaning 12-part Plain Meaning Special Report. Links to all episodes will appear as they're released.

    The Real Reason Behind Online Age Verification Laws
    The rest are coming soon...

    California's law takes effect January 2027. There is still time — but not much.

    #AgeVerification #DigitalPrivacy #OnlineSafety #COPPA #BigTech #ChildOnlineSafety #Surveillance #Apple #Google #Meta #Facebook #DigitalID #PlainMeaning #PrivacyRights #ChinaTech #InternetFreedom #DataPrivacy #OperatingSystem #TechPolicy #ParentsRights #China #PrivacyAct

    #AgeVerification #DigitalPrivacy #OnlineSafety

    #AgeVerification #NationalID #Surveillance #Censorship #PlainMeaning

  2. CentOS Stream vs #AlmaLinux vs Rocky Linux vs Oracle Linux for VPS Hosting This article provides a detailed comparison of #CentOS Stream vs AlmaLinux vs Rocky Linux vs Oracle Linux for VPS ...
    Continued 👉 #operatingsystem #centosstream #vpsguide #ostemplates #centosstream #rockylinux #oraclelinux

    CentOS Stream vs AlmaLinux vs ...

  3. Triglav gem is a fork of the original GEM that is compatible with #Atari ST TOS, provided by a buildin 68k CPU emulator. It runs on #Linux.

    github.com/triglav-os/gem

    #retrocomputing #operatingsystem

  4. macOS is so frequently warning me that this or that app I launch will not be functional when Apple sunsets Rosetta 2 and its Ahead-Of-Time compilation, providing x86-64 -> ARM translation in macOS Golden Gate.

    On the one hand, yes, this is a hard driver to get developers to update their app to native and, as such, provide higher performance and peak integration into the latest OS.

    On the other hand...I've ridden this CPU platform switch train on the Mac long enough (having been here for every one that's happened), that I know many "little" apps that aren't huge moneymakers or maybe aren't any longer maintained will just cease to exist in on the modern Mac platform when this happens, and this saddens me greatly. Some of these apps I use often, even daily.

    I neither look forward to nor praise this coming move from Apple.

    macrumors.com/2026/06/10/macos

    #Apple #Mac #macOS #macOSGoldenGate #Rosetta #Rosetta2 #AOT #JIT #x86 #x8664 #ARM #AppleSilicon #OS #technews #tech #software #operatingsystem #indiedev #legacysoftware #computing

  5. People are upset about debian but debian would have to reject the kernel to reject LLMs. The fish starts rotting from the head. No distribution will be better than the very kernel it runs. The entire ecosystem is collapsing.

    We really do have the 30M lines problem, as Molly Rocket put it. The kernel have always been a single point of failure

    We need a standardized SoC (system on chip) with entire system ISA (instruction set architecture). We need operating systems to be a weekend projects. We need thousands of operating systems. We need open source hardware that will enable that.

    #debian #linux #kernel #slop #isa #soc #mollyRocket #embedded #permaComputing #retrohardware #programming #operatingsystem #os #device #OpenSourceHardware #OSHW

  6. Tasmania Police cancels KPMG contract after $6m spent on incomplete digital upgrades

    Tasmania Police terminated a digital contract with KPMG after spending more than $6 million on incomplete projects that…
    #Australia #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AU #Austrlia #cancelledcontract #dispute #ict #KPMG #operatingsystem #tas #tasmania #tasmaniapolice
    europesays.com/australia/81623/

  7. Tasmania Police cancels KPMG contract after $6m spent on incomplete digital upgrades

    Tasmania Police terminated a digital contract with KPMG after spending more than $6 million on incomplete projects that…
    #NewsBeep #News #Business #AI #Artificialintelligence #AU #Australia #cancelledcontract #dispute #ict #KPMG #operatingsystem #tas #Tasmania #tasmaniapolice
    newsbeep.com/au/869553/

  8. Tasmania Police cancels KPMG contract after $6m spent on incomplete digital upgrades

    Tasmania Police terminated a digital contract with KPMG after spending more than $6 million on incomplete projects that…
    #NewsBeep #News #Business #AI #Artificialintelligence #AU #Australia #cancelledcontract #dispute #ict #KPMG #operatingsystem #tas #Tasmania #tasmaniapolice
    newsbeep.com/au/869553/

  9. 😆 A 13-year-old wrote a whole 32-bit OS from scratch in C in just 14 days, complete with GUI, TCP/IP, and a filesystem. Meanwhile, professional developers everywhere are still struggling to add a new button to their 10-year-old Java apps. 🚀👶
    github.com/Luka12-dev/AurionOS #13YearOldDeveloper #CProgramming #OperatingSystem #Innovation #YoungTalent #HackerNews #ngated

  10. Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin released!

    After 6 months of development of the Plucky Puffin version, especially bug fixes, performance improvements, and feature additions, Ubuntu’s Release Team has released this version! Not only is it released in the original distribution, but also in Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, and all other official flavors.

    To upgrade your system to 25.04, either open the terminal and run do-release-upgrade as root, or open Software Updates and start the upgrade. Make sure that your packages are upgraded first and that you’ve enabled non-LTS upgrades.

    To download this awesome release, check out the following links:

    Stay up-to-date with us by following our blog!

    #2024 #2410 #2410Oracular #2410OracularOriole #Computer #Desktop #docker #Linux #LinuxDistro #LinuxRelease #linuxUpdate #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware #operatingSystem #Oracular #OracularOriole #Oriole #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2410 #Ubuntu2410Oracular #Ubuntu2410OracularOriole #UbuntuLinux #UbuntuUpdate #ubuntulinux #Windows

  11. Z80-RIO (Z80 Operating System with Relocatable Modules and I/O Management) - a general-purpose operating system developed by Zilog in the late 1970s archiveos.org/z80-rio/ #operatingsystem #zilog

  12. , a valued to the is a key ingredient to the engine room of development.

    For example, , based on is web-centric laptop/desktop widely used in education.

    All apps are web apps and the entire experience takes place within the browser, so users do not have to deal with installing, managing, and updating programs.

    Thank you for , !

  13. iOS 16 review: Customization unlocked - Enlarge / The (customized) lock screen in iOS 16. (credit: Samuel Axon)... - arstechnica.com/?p=1884255 #operatingsystem. #gadgetology #smartphone #features #iphone #apple #ios16 #tech #ios