If you want a real answer, it is for the situation where the owner of a device would like to respond on a non-privileged user’s behalf. A kid being asked ‘hey, you have to be 18 to see inside, pinky promise? ;)’ by a website is not secure. And there are plenty of sketchy, privacy-invasive third party solutions to lock down devices, but a system-level universal age attestation api would make it a lot easier for parents to control what their child sees, assuming the internet adopts it broadly.

It’s not meant to even inconvenience adults who own their own devices. People complaining about this must have trouble opening child seals on their medicine.

I would be opposed to that hypothetical proposal. This real proposal, helpfully linked, has none of that. It’s the same way how I’m in favor of energy independence but oppose fracking. How I’m in favor of legalization and hate the idea of phillip-morris joints. Just because two policies have a vaguely similar idea of ‘protecting children’ doesn’t mean they are equal.

Nobody is pretending, we just know how to read. There are real threats to privacy, there are real age verification bills going around everywhere. This isn’t one of them. Technical details matter, and this proposal preserves children’s privacy while giving parents more control of their devices.

The correct word is attestation, not verification. It’s an incredibly important distinction.

There’s no bypassing required, there’s literally no verification required. The post title is incorrect.

In the hypothetical world where an operating system, independent of any legal requirements, decides to require age/id verification, I will simply not use that particular operating system.

The law only applies to OS providers. I, as a user, can legally input 1675 as my birth date.

I can ‘indicate’ whatever the fuck I want with no consequences. That’s not the same as age/id verification.

I don’t see anything in here about verification.

As a Guix user, I recommend Ubuntu. If you stick with it, there are specific distros for gaming, but, Ubuntu has such a large user base it makes it very easy to get answers to questions that are specific to your distro. Ubuntu makes it easy to install nvidia and other ‘3rd party drivers’, it’ll just work. I do recommend installing software in the terminal, the Ubuntu app store I feel has some rough edges.

Well, the alternative ROM scene has been active as long as Android has, so I kinda doubt Google hasn’t thought about whether their software is actually soft and squishy like the name implies, and easy to remove or modify.

I think you might be right, but it’s a little silly to think Google would only install spyware on a tiny fraction of their phones that they somehow had a premonition that GrapheneOS would be installed on.

The user base of Pixel phones is small? What?

That’s a dumb take. Rights are intrinsic to all people, they can’t be taken away, even if they are violated. Everybody experiences various levels of human rights violations, but nobody has fewer rights because of the crimes commited against them.

Yeah. Sorry I didn’t see this.

I don’t think he waited. The entire ICE hiring spree and deployment strategy seems to be designed to cause conflict with civilians. The officer involved was violent in the past already and rewarded for it instead of punished. The idea is to put unprepared people in unfamiliar territory with loaded weapons and tell them that everyone else is out to kill them. This has been an ongoing attempt to cause violence, since Jan 20th, that is only now becoming impossible to ignore. I don’t think there has been any sharp escalation, there have been plenty of ICE murders all throughout last year. It has been getting more violent over time, and will continue throughout the next year at the very least.

The official, maintained syncthing app is available on Android through the Termux ‘pkg’ manager.

Worse or better on policy, I think the next speaker won’t publicly fellate Trump nearly as much, which is notable.

But, in that case there’s a crime, there’s a body. I don’t think there’s any underlying assertion of illegality here. If this becomes standard legal practice, that it’s illegal to destroy data in general, all paper shredders would have to be thrown out.

Wtf are you talking about? They are carrying guns, they shot back. What they were doing was illegal, and it doesn’t justify murder but let’s not pretend these are morally upstanding people, walking around DC with guns loaded. They are there to instill fear.

You’ll have to brew your own run conditions I think. For me, it’s not a big deal, just a bunch of documents and pictures and not much gets added every day. But termux does have access to network state, and I’m pretty sure syncthing accepts stop and continue execution signals, so a shell script shouldn’t be too difficult. Another possible option is to use termux:tasker.