Brazil has something similar. Other US states are working on it. And the UK, some EU countries, Australia and others are pushing for the same. This won’t be just California for long: it’s a worldwide push to make it impossible to do anything involving a computer without first disclosing your real identity to the authorities.
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/online-age-verification-a-complete-global-timeline
It wouldn’t be easy to ban desktop Linux without inadvertently banning Linux servers and IoT devices. So we should let them walk into this quagmire and get bogged down with an impossible task, instead of capitulating at the first opportunity.
It’s not easy, particularly if you developed it and have spent months immersed in all the detail. To emerge from that and imagine coming to it as a new user is pretty hard. I don’t have much to add but I like your advice. I need to rewrite the docs for one of my projects and I’ll be bearing your points in mind.
Maybe one other point I’d add is: have a clear idea of who you’re writing for, and have different levels and styles of documentation for different types of users. Don’t try to satisfy everyone in the same document. Divide the documentation up by intended readership.
It shouldn’t need to reveal DOB to any other party. At most there should be an API that returns a boolean indicating whether the user is a child.* DOB is too much information.
*Edit: Even that’s a bad idea, as others here have pointed out. Let content filtering be done locally based on content metadata and user settings, so no information about the user needs to be broadcast.
DOB shouldn’t be collected at all. Operating systems don’t need to know personal information about their users.
It’s weird that this guy is pushing it with “it’s the law” justifications while claiming it’s so ineffective as to be harmless. If your justification is that it’s ineffective, why not just do nothing? That would be even more ineffective at collecting users’ dates of birth. Why be the guy who does something? He seems oddly eager and strangely confident that all the steps he’s taking to comply preemptively won’t be misused in future, by governments, corporations or hackers.
Even if you give a false DOB, it could be one more weapon in the armory of trackers and fingerprinters.
That’s not reassuring. It sounds like they don’t want home users to be able to get any router they could manage themselves.
TP-Link is a Chinese technology company that manufactures network equipment and smart home products. The company was established in 1996 in Shenzhen.
Fridman, the podcast’s host, defines AGI as an AI system that’s able to “essentially do your job,” as in start, grow, and run a successful tech company worth more than $1 billion. He then asks Huang when he believes AGI will be real — asking if it’s, say, five, 10, 15, or 20 years away — and Huang responds, “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”
Lex Fridman is a fucking moron and his pretentious podcast is unbearable. These people are so dumb and unimaginative. Of course they think the test of general intelligence is the ability to be a profiteering capitalist techbro, and intelligence can be measured in how many billions you can screw other people for. Maybe when the revolution comes it will dawn on them that they were wrong. A person can dream…
And it will be a selling point of Windows 12 over Windows 11!
Or of Linux, presuming it has a decent driver…
Anyone actually trust this?
And you didn’t even think of just inheriting some?
Open source is not a magic bullet but it’s a baseline requirement for trust.
I just stuck a new battery in my laptop for its 9th birthday. Still going strong with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Everything they do is a lie. Everything they do is anti-USA.
had to watch their parents and brothers get liked
Might be worth fixing that typo.
Time for a fork?
Since Comet is integrated with 1Password, the hijacked AI could be steered to open the user’s unlocked vault. Using instructions hidden in English and Hebrew to evade detection, the AI could search for credentials or even change the master password. This resulted in a full account takeover, giving the attacker unrestricted access to the user’s passwords.
Just say no to AI assistants in your browser and OS.
Taxing the billionaires could pay for some of those wars you love to do.