Should have been a massive red flag when he found out she attends a catholic girls school… “Student at a catholic girls school” does not at all say “this is a fully grown adult woman” in any language. That didn’t give him any pause at all, so I’m not that surprised when a paragraph later he is explicitly told she is underage and his only real concern is getting caught by the chief of police father…

Someone warned him when he did it, that’s how he knows it is illegal now…

Amazing, thank you for the in-depth (but simple enough) explanation!

OH. So like, it’s a situation where the “lock” has 2 keys, one that locks it and one that unlocks it. You keep the “unlock” key on your person and never let it out of your sight, but let the “lock” key just gets distributed and copied anywhere because all it can do is LOCK the door, and it really doesn’t matter who locks the door so long as only you can unlock it.

That is very interesting. I still don’t quite understand how it technically works, because I thought if you encrypt something with a key, you could basically “do it backwards” to get the original information… This is probably due to getting simplified explanations of encryption though that makes them analogous to a basic cipher (take every letter, assign it to a number, add 10, convert back to new letter - can’t be read unless someone knows or figures out the “key” is 10) and now it is obvious that it is significantly more complex than that…

But I am much more confident that I understand the ‘mechanics’ of it, so thank you for the explanation!

Considering they don’t want your address or name, how the hell would that work anyway? This had to be a joke…

I find the best way to torment Linux ISOs is using the live environment exclusively to:

1. Bing search “how to burn iso to usb” 1a) immediately change search to “how to burn iso to usb linux”
2. Bing search “windows 11 install free iso” 2a) download the first link that is an iso
3. Follow instructions from step 1a 90% to the letter using the iso from step 2a, changing the 10% ignored until it “works”.
   3a) bonus points if you try to write the image to the same USB the live environment is on - if the “chosen” method allows this, congratulations secret ending unlocked, skip to step 6.
4. Bing search “is windows 11 free install safe” 4a) change search to “is windows 11 free install safe reddit”
5. Either unmount the live USB while it is still running, or just hard power down the computer, without even closing the browser.
6. Plug USB drive directly into USB power wall adapter and never plug it into a computer again.

Now, before you ask, yes, you absolutely could do all of this in a VM, but I’ve found it is more tormenting if there is real actual hardware wasted and/or at risk of damage. Linux is the natural enemy of consumerism, so buying a 12 pack of flash drives just to do this on a thinkpad over and over until the thinkpad dies really hurts the linux ISO to their core.

Okay, but like, if the carrier sees all your texts, don’t they also receive the public keys and can then also decrypt the messages?? I’m genuinely curious how this works. The more I think about it, the more I am convinced I don’t understand how any encryption works because the intended recipient needs the key to decrypt it, and if I’m giving them that key, but my traffic is also being watched… doesn’t whoever wants to snoop get the key too??

I feel like I have to be missing something because this just sounds like having an encrypted flash drive that you leave out in the open for someone else to grab, but it has the password written on the side of it in sharpie.

They try to do it all the time, but there is actually some push-back from the law - google recently lost an anti-trust case, the eu passed laws to protect “side-loading”, etc. This new legislation gives them a legal backing. “Oh no, I’m sorry you can’t get your app store working on Android. We aren’t stopping side-loading or other app markets, we are just complying with the legal age-verification requirements”.

They already know the age of their users… They bloody well know. They backed that bill because it gives them a legal leg to bully out smaller 3rd parties and solidify their respective monopolies.

The entirety of what little remains of independent media discovered the apparent undiscoverable over a month before our Tech-corp’s AI super-intelligence overlords. Amazing.

I do like the look of that form factor a lot… And I don’t see any major red flags in the specs that make me think it won’t work with Linux… Thanks!

It requires every Operating System and “App Store” to know the user’s age. It requires every piece of software installed to receive the age-range token. It could be catastrophically bad for the open source community - the bill does nothing to define how these tokens are communicated and received. The largest players in the industry can use their market share to exert control over how it happens and bully anyone that doesn’t get on board. For example, Google could tie it to the Play Integrity/Services and effectively kill 3rd party roms and possibly even open source app stores like fdroid, or all side-loading entirely if it was tied into the Play Store enough.

The bill isn’t specifically a privacy dystopian nightmare, but it is still a dystopian nightmare. We need the government and mega-corps to have less influence and control over our devices, this gives them more.

I’m pretty sure I watched some random youtuber’s video explaining how circular this shit is nearly a month ago… I guess it’s 2025, so human observations doesn’t matter, what matters is “what does the AI think”.

The CA bill is also dystopian nightmare fuel… The US isn’t going to build an enormous firewall like other countries have, we are just going to pass a bunch of stupid laws and threaten companies to block our citizens from access instead. Put the burden of building the wall on someone else, the modern American Way™!

An entire generation of fuck-wad parents that just gave their kid a tablet and zero supervision instead of actually raising them are now using their failings as an excuse to control the population; control their devices, control their habits, control their knowledge, and control their thoughts.

My god this. I can’t count the number of times I’ve thought “I wish I could buy a steam deck with the controllers ripped off”. At a point, I’d take that and then a cheap nokia flip phone that can do wifi-hotspot and call it a day. Separate all the bs I do on my phone from the calling and texting part.

Holy shit this comment came out swinging… A+ job.

I’ve mostly been using https://alexandrite.app/ on both PC and mobile. I have Jerboa installed as well as back-up but only occasionally use it.

Luigi Mangione fixed most of the bugs in Civ 6 regarding the UI.

The horse’s opinion is wrong?

Same dude, lmao.