Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age

Post by palmotea » Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

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The left wing constantly says “we started letting women work”. Women have worked for thousands of years. The phenomenon of manipulating women into believing working for a corporation is some kind of “higher calling” is relatively new, and it’s been a disaster for the family unit.

I mean women recognize that they've worked for thousands of years and wanted to start getting paid for it.

Post by throwaway27448 » Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 4:58 PM UTC

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throwaway27448 wrote: post #296

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> If parents/schools don't want to implement it, that's on them Well that's not much of a solution is it now? More like an attempt that we all can see will fail. Harm reduction is not the same as a solution.

But it is an argument against age restrictions since you could just as easily pass a law that instead required schools to enable various filters. You could even require mainstream devices from major manufacturers to support certain filtering standards. And you could require websites to send self categorization headers. There is no valid argument for why ID checks are necessary if the goal is simply to get filtering i…

Post by zimpenfish » Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 5:11 PM UTC

pocksuppet wrote: post #34

zimpenfish wrote: post #20

I wish iOS 26.4 didn't bother because I'm stuck with an immovable "verify you're 18+" flag[0] in Settings even though it was well into the previous century when I was even near 18. [0] I have no credit card and it won't accept debit cards. It also won't use the fact that I've had an Apple account and spent 10s of thousands in my own name at their damn shops, online and real life, over the last 2 decades (and Apple/pa…

You should hope the California law passes, because it'll be illegal for them to verify you're 18+ instead of just asking you whether you're 18+.

Post by gzread » Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 5:29 PM UTC

widowlark wrote: post #532

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How many kids do you have? What software do you use for this continuous monitoring? How do you balance spending 18 hours a day continuously monitoring your children, with also working full-time and being a human yourself? Please elaborate on your personal system because I think you could help out a lot of people. I am strongly against this age verification, I think this is an absolutely, catastrophically terrible ide…

having children is a choice. Therefore, the difficulty of that choice is not really a factor in our lawmaking nor should it be.

Post by gzread » Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

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ab_testing wrote: post #255

Why are Linux operating system providers taking it upon themselves to comply with the California law especially if they are not selling anything. Since it is just a downloadable piece of software then it is up to California state to set up a firewall to protect themselves from such harmful software. Let's say I am a generic linux developer who develops variants of Debian Linux while sitting in my basement in any part…

because the laws are coming with massive fines and penalties that will apply to people not even selling anything unless you can confidently dodge American law enforcement, which is a big ask unless you are solidly anonymous somehow, then you are forced to react in some way