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  • From next week, Australia will require users to verify their age to play GTA Online and other R18+ online games

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  • Hollywood pushes woke content, everyone looks at reviews skipping anything that sucks.

    Game providers push kyc, everyone quits gaming.

    Nope. Don't see any correlation. At minimum this is the signal to put in some effort practicing our surprised face.

    Oh so shocked the industry is bleeding customers.

    With all this new found free time can turn efforts into weapon manufacturing. Share all your weapon designs with your ol' gamer buddies.

  • Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint Eye Age Verification Amid California Law Backlash

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  • Reread aGPLv3 and you are right.

    These are non-commercial licenses: CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, and CC BY-NC-ND

    `These licenses prohibit commercial use by default, and anyone wishing to use the work commercially must obtain explicit permission (a waiver or separate license) from the rights holder.

    A one-time permission from the copyright holder allowing a specific user to use the work commercially. It does not change the license for others, only the recipient gains commercial rights. The original CC BY-NC terms (non-commercial for all others) remain.`

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  • It's less naive than an anti-kyc license. It's very pro kyc, there is just a steep fee involved.

    If said, absolutely no and the gov't says kyc is mandated, that gov't could have a judge strike out that clause. This license would not run afoul of such a law and judges are not going to strike out a fee simply because the effort and costs involved to obtain a waiver from package authors is inconvenient.

    Don't think in terms of prohibition. There is always a way to yes as long as the govt or company can go against the interests of it's stakeholders and it's helpful being open to financial suicide.

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  • Would like to modify aGPLv3+ license and include the following clause

    Web sites, apps, blockchain smart contracts, desktop apps, or scripts that include Background IP in their tech stack and found to advocate, consider, or impose kyc on their users, having not obtained a waiver beforehand, incurs fee of the amount, 10x previous year's GDP of the country with global reserve currency status or largest economy, whichever is greater. User authentication should be limited to the top 2 private privacy IMs. Login walls requiring email verification is kyc. Paywalls that don't provide the option for Monero or offer Monero payment option but not at a discount, is kyc. Physical address verification, although kyc, as long as there is a physical product involved, does not trigger this clause.

    aGPLv3+ already says companies have to seek waiver for commercial use from the author.

    This is how Python package authors say, Sure np there is just a fee involved.

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  • What i'm suggesting is a supply chain attack targeting only imposers of kyc. Only change is the license.

    Each web site is built on a tech stack. With shared tech stacks. There are only a few possible choices.

    Would only have to convince very few authors and it affects the entire planet. Cuz many of these packages are not easily replaced.

    Our tech stacks are hanging on by a thread. Maintenance is very underfunded which screams, at risk! Without the good will of maintainers and them self-funding the maintenance, all the companies making web sites would have have legal liabilities hanging over their heads, if they ever dared to have their web site impose kyc.

    Is there anything else can help to clarify?

  • Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

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  • any sufficiently washed crypto is better than fiat

    Actually not really. opt-in privacy is worthless. Being the only one making private transactions within a sea of users making transparent transactions is worthless.

    paper fiat currency is mostly anonymous for offline transactions between two people.

    For online transactions, privacy is actually very very hard. So not all cryptocurrency are created equal.

    And mentioning ETH and pretending it's a cryptocurrency is misleading. It's PoS (1998 technology). PoW was created to solve the problem of PoS masternodes.

  • Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

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  • Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

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  • How was this downvoted? Does the word fascist hurt your feelings?

    It's an exact summary of what occurred.

    Wait! I have to check. Is this a privacy forum? Yep look at that i'm not lost.

    The US gov't is not a representative democracy. It's influenced only by stakeholders and lobbyists. Not voters who have zero influence on policies. Pay lip service to it, but it's not true.

    So fascist country, is how the poster describes it. I'd describe it as not a representative democracy. And if it's not a representative democracy, it's something else.

    Just like Proton mail is something else.

  • Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

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  • So you buy crypto with cash. Then convert it to Monero then buy the giftcards. Then load giftcard into a digital payment app. The use it.

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  • You misspelled Monero.

    Do not pretend that other PoS (1998 old tech like ETH) or PoW (2009) coins/tokens are privacy coins.

    SHUM

  • Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

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  • What security? What privacy? It's a dodgy company pretending to provide secure communications.

  • Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint Eye Age Verification Amid California Law Backlash

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  • Exactly! Boot lickers (kyc as a thought crime) are also expressly excluded from using packages i've written.

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  • That already happened. Privacy browsers are a reaction to the enshitification of browsers like firefox.

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  • it's more than merely about imposing kyc. "Age verification" entails asking to provide a photo. Which is then sent straight to the US and Canadian govts and compared against other people's photos. It's an intelligence gathering operation.

    This is a fact, not a theory.

    https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona

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  • Cut these States out. Forever. Let them be as examples of what happens. Stop providing them FOSS and maintenance.

    Or

    Will have to write a software license targeting companies and boot lickers imposing kyc.

    I wrote the, not yet published, framework between sqlalchemy and web routers e.g. litestar and FastAPI.

    Will be monitoring this. If it appears distros are more than willing to impose kyc or even entertain the notion (kyc as a thought crime), will expressly exclude them by imposing rates that would bankrupt countries.

    You cannot impose kyc so can use my own packages and expect me to go along with it.

    Also can contact other developers and ask them to switch over to an aggressive no-kyc license from their permissive licenses. Targeting packages known to be used by offending distros or other distribution channels.

    kyc is a cancer. Will enthusiastically hunt it down and ostracize it.

  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • It's worse than that. Already proven the point of this is to get your photo and send to US gov't spy agencies for mass domestic surveillance.

    Like many laws being pushed by the global deep state, this one is already DOA. Cannot stand up in court.

    more in-depth article

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • ... and spoons. The spoon grabbers are coming for your spoons. We need to organize to protect our neighbors cutlery

  • Stop using pickle already. Seriously, stop it!

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  • project cost = sigma(1...n)(risk likelihood of occurring * risk cost), but we aren't discussing every possible risk. Only the one risk.

    The risk of having to:

    • for the app to work, requires compiled components
    • having to be familiar with setup.py. This is referred to as the sewer, which is what is targeted by hackers e.g. xv
    • maintainers who come later being familiar and can maintain packages that incorporate other languages e.g. C or rust
    • possibly neglecting to perform the compile (but lets ignore this)
    • compiler runs a binary written and maintained by the spy agency Google

    or

    Just not doing that

    The only justification for going with protoc, over other methods, could only come down to data serialization speed. But in that case, wouldn't a rust solution be: not only as fast, but also much safer.

  • Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers

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  • Wait waaaaat? Doesn't everyone have a desktop cat. What a sad bunch of losers without the company of even a digital cat.

    oneko wtf!