So, I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don't hate it. It requires operating systems to let you enter a date when you create a user account and requires a way for software to get a coarse-grained approximation of this that says either 'over 18' or one of three age ranges of under-18s. Importantly, it doesn't require:
Remote attestation.
Tamper-proof storage of the age.
Any validation in the age.
In short, it's a tool for parents: it allows you to set the age of a child's account so that apps (including web browsers, which can then expose via JavaScript or whatever) can ask questions about what features they should expose.
In a UNIX-like system, this is easy to do, with a tiny amount of new userspace things:
Define four groups for the four age ranges (ideally, standardise their names!).
Add a /etc/user_birthdays file (or whatever name it is) that stores pairs of username (or uid) and birthdays.
Add a daily cron job that checks the above file and updates group membership.
Modify user-add scripts / GUIs to create an entry in the above file.
Add a tool to create an entry in the above file for existing user accounts.
This doesn't require any kernel changes. Any process can query the set of groups that the user is in already.
If a parent wants to give their child root, they can update the file and bypass the check. And that's fine, that's a parent's choice. And that's what I want.
I like this approach far more than things that require users to provide scans of passports and other toxically personal information to be able to use services. If we had this feature, then the Online Safety Act could simply require that web browsers provide a JavaScript API to query the age bracket and didn't work unless it returned 'over 18'.
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lol, years ago in highschool I put a copy of the bible from project Gutenberg into a similar site, and that day might have been the longest time I ever spent willingly reading the bible
27 likes, 0 comments - wherehowardgoes on March 1, 2026: "The aurora was clearly visible to the naked eye, but this was already mellow compared to how the light show graced the night sky earlier in the evening.
📍 @bjorkliden_fjallby, Sweden.
Per quanto una situazione possa sembrare disperata, c'è sempre una possibilità di soluzione. Quando tutto attorno è buio non c'è altro da fare che aspettare tranquilli che gli occhi si abituino all'oscurità. Buona notte ♥️
Qatar, the UAE and other Gulf nations have spent years cultivating an image of being an oasis of stability in the Mideast. The current war risks undoing all that work.
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Da Dubai parla il presidente dell’associazione World stundent connection che ha organizzato il viaggio per i 190 ragazzi rimas…
We’re seeing a LOT of reports coming in from a giant wave of these accounts. Please make sure to report them if you see them, then we’ll take it from there.
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.
No imminent threat! A war based on LIES! A waste of blood and treasure! A distraction from the #TrumpEpsteinFiles ! But not for long. Rs, #IMPEACHMENT time is HERE! (removal of President, VP, & all civil officers for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.) #Politics
I found a new favorite place on today's stream walk (topic: meditation). I took screen caps to identify these flowers later. The white is southern dewberry, a species of flowering plant in the rose family (Rosaceae) native to the southern United States and northern Mexico. The yellow vine is false jessamine. A huge one grew up a tall pine in my childhood backyard, scattering blossoms & sweet perfume. Third pic shows the general landscape around the path.
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Well, this probably means that using generative AI for development is incompatible with any foss licensing, but it also means that there’s no such thing as “proprietary” GenAI code.
The loss of Yanar Mohammed is a devastating blow to the feminist movement. Yet her legacy of struggle will remain alive in every woman who reclaimed her life through her support, and in every stand taken against violence and discrimination.
Resident Evil Requiem . Estoy viendo que parece un buen juego pero que no tengo forma de jugarlo (no esta para la switch 1, no para linux, ...)
De modo que esperaré 10 años o más para jugarlo como me suele pasar. Y lo mismo lo disfrutaré en un emulador o algo así
Me niego a comprar una switch 2 o ps5 para un juego que seguramente podrían haber sacado en la switch 1 exprimiendo o comprimiendo o bajando de calidad. Y tendrían ahora mismo ventas posibles aseguradas
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I finally watched "Sex, Lies, and Videotapes" directed by Soderbergh. I remember I used to own the VHS too but never managed to watch it.
Well, it was a nice watch in terms of performances and direction, but the film felt dated to me. As in I don't relate to the dynamics of the characters, which reminded me of my parents' generation.
Then I thought that although it's not my reality (luckily) it's still a reality for many.
I've never heard of that movie. The synopsis I found didn't give away much about the style, like it could be cheap&voyeuristic or super arthouse. Was it a "regular" 80s movie (although maybe dated, as you say?).
@compfu nah it's pretty good in fact. It won Cannes in 1989. It's not a regular Hollywood movie, neither for the direction or the editing or even the plot. But it's still a "regular" film, nothing artsy.
Again, the more I think about it the more I like it in the end, it's just that there are some cliches that rubbed me wrong.
I literally can't stop screaming in my pillow about people who heavily rely on hashtags being dubbed "spam" by overbearing algorithms/moderation that shadowban a group of people broadly and randos with a personal vendetta (regardless whether an algorithm is present on a given social network or not)
when certain users engage in actual deceptive behavior like *checks the trending feed* claiming to give away free laptops/appliances and then not bothering to be transparent and reveal that the offer is restricted to academics living in a specific region (unless users actually click on the link and investigate the fine print further)
No better than actual spammers who post get-rich-quick schemes in the comments to multiple unrelated posts...
Celebrating 20 Years of Xubuntu Xubuntu first joined the Ubuntu family as an official flavor in June 2006. Fast-forward 20 years, and Xubuntu is a fan favorite—fast, lightweight, easy-to-use, and easy-to-recommend.
Announcing the Xubuntu Anniversary Wallpaper Contests (yes, plural)!
Xubuntu 26.04, releasing in April, marks 20 years of Xubuntu as an official flavor. Time flies!
First, we're opening up a community wallpaper contest. Six images will be selected and included in 26.04, and the winners will receive Xubuntu stickers.
Second, we are asking the community to select two past wallpapers to be remixed for 26.04. Pick your favorites!
Hezbollah Officially Enters War Against US-Zionist Barbaric Aggression
Hezollah, the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon, announced that it launched a salvo of missiles and a swarm of drones at the Mishmar HaCarmel air defense site south of Haifa late Sunday into early Monday, stressing that the operation was in retaliation for the assassination of Iranian Leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei and in response to ongoing zionist attacks on Lebanon. This action offiicially marks their inclusion into the war against US-Zionist gencodical arrogance. Below we publish their communqiue.
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
“Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought because they were wronged, and indeed Allah is capable of granting them victory.”
— Truthful is Allah, the Almighty, the Great
In revenge for the pure blood of the leader of the Muslims, His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Imam Sayyid Ali al-Husayni Khamenei, may his sacred soul be protected, who was unjustly and treacherously shed by the criminal Zionist enemy, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, and within the framework of responding to repeated Israeli aggressions, the Islamic Resistance targeted, in the middle of the night between Sunday and Monday, 2 March 2026, a salvo of precision missiles and a squadron of drones at the Mishmar HaCarmel missile defense site of the Israeli enemy army south of the occupied city of Haifa.
The leadership of the Resistance has always affirmed that the continuation of Israeli attacks and the assassination of our leaders, youth, and people gives us the right to defend and respond at the appropriate time and place.
The Israeli enemy cannot continue its aggression, which has lasted for fifteen months, without facing a warning response to stop this aggression and withdraw from the occupied Lebanese territories.
This response is a legitimate defensive action, and the responsible parties must put an end to the Israeli-American aggression against Lebanon.
“And victory is not but from Allah, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.”
"America is exhausted of foreign entanglement. I'm exhausted," said John Deaton, a Marine veteran and Republican challenging Democratic Sen. Ed Markey for Senate. Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Republican Party is backing the war.
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"Latifúndio jurídico, político, econômico, mediático é a parte que te cabe deste latifúndio" (POR: português)
"Legal, political, economic, and media landholdings are the part of this large estate that belongs to you.
Disagio mentale e povertà, un legame perverso @anarchia Reso noto giorni fa, il Rapporto delinea lo stato allarmante di salute psico-fisica della popolazione italiana e in particolare dei giovani e delle donne. Quello che emerge dalla ricerca è «un peggioramento strutturale della salute mentale, con effetti rivoluzioneanarchica.it/disagi…
Researchers warn that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls.
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US #Defense chief #Hegseth on #Iran war: there would be “no stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically correct wars”. A war without rules of engagement is a war crime theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
The thought leader is the person in charge of taking lightweight, unserious thoughts and giving them intellectual gravitas by filling them with lead pellets. Often mispronounced LEE-der instead of the correct LED-der.
saying things that people with capital like to hear, but in a way that makes workers feel is positive, maybe even good for the world even though it isn’t really.
the imperial equivalent of a thought liter where 1 thought leader equals 1.35 thought liters, except in Louisiana and Canada where it's 1.4 thought liters
Well actually “thought” is an acronym for “that Hegelian oppressive undertaking growing hegemony thereabouts,” so naturally a thought leader is someone effecting such a thing.
So you create a "thought leader", a simple, child-like thought, to draw in all those incredulous morons, er I mean, valued customers, to all your other more complex, well crafted and far more expensive thoughts.
CENTCOM posted, “As of 4 pm ET, March 2, six US service members have been killed in action. US forces recently recovered the remains of two previously unaccounted for service members from a facility that was struck during Iran's initial attacks in the region. Major combat operations continue. The identities of the fallen are being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification.”
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