New state laws are pushing age verification into macOS and Windows. By 2027, logging in might require a facial scan or government ID.

This is unacceptable. And I’m sick of all the fucking workarounds to maintain basic privacy.

  • straussbelial@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 minutes ago

    This only seems to apply to just one country and not “everywhere” 🤨 (mainly regarding open source software)

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    22·
    14 hours ago

    I thought open source projects were except from this, thus won’t be a requirement on Linux

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      11·
      12 hours ago

      That doesn’t stop apps and services from blocking Linux and specifically requiring Windows or Mac.

        • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          7·
          11 hours ago

          You’d be cut off from most of the web best-case, potentially even the entire web worst-case if this moves up the chain to the ISP level and ISPs start requiring trusted OSes like Android, iOS, Windows, or macOS to even access the web, at which point the entire global web becomes an NK-style intranet, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some legislators are actively considering taking it that far.

          • BCsven@lemmy.ca
            6·
            10 hours ago

            If it gets like that them I think everyone moves to some darkweb or something

              • BCsven@lemmy.ca
                3·
                9 hours ago

                At some point it could get to that, but even Chineae residents find a way out of being blocked. If it gets totally restricted then maybe we go to a peer mesh net and bypass ISPs.

            • 4am@lemmy.zip
              2·
              10 hours ago

              How will you order your meshtastic radio if you cannot access the web, and how long will it be before it’s made illegal anyway?

              No one will know about the disappearances because the news comes from the cloud companies. Like it never happened.

              I swear some of you are still out to brunch, still think that we’re not all seen as disposable prisoners

          • ArsonButCute@programming.dev
            2·
            9 hours ago

            This is probably a bad take but like, good?

            Most of the web is trash nowadays anyway. We should all go back to Gopher and Finger, or other similar modern implementations of the same ideas like Gemini, Spartan, and Titan. Those are small enough to easily roll out over mesh networks that can’t be easily governed.

            Http is dead. Long live the internet.

            • zwerg@feddit.org
              1·
              6 hours ago

              Gopher runs on top of the internet, so that solves nothing. Finger is… more or less useless in this context.

              You would need a whole new physical layer, and maybe replacement for the TCP and IP protocols. The later is probably doable, the former will struggle unless/until there are lots of users with the new hardware.