I wonder what the value of an ad nauseum user is…

SB26-090 was introduced during a Colorado Senate hearing on April 2 and was supported by lobbying efforts from companies such as Cisco and IBM.

That checks out.

And even with the overhead of translating DirectX and Windows API calls.

It works about the same as any other non-NixOS system running a user install of Nix.

nix-env -i neovim

You could also choose to enable and use more advanced features like flakes, but I would suggest not doing that unless you want to dive into the Nix ecosystem.

There is ReactOS, which is an ABI-compatible kernel and operating system. That is as close as we are going to get unless pigs start flying.

Whoever thought of the meme probably doesn’t work in tech. A brand-new AI datacenter is not going to be left unguarded. Doubly so if there’s government data being stored or processed within it.

Good point. I’m not keen on personally comitting fraud, but with the inevitable data breaches in mind, identity verification would do absolutely nothing to deter malicious actors.

Not if they use cryptographic signing.

Browser sends website the signed identity verification, then the website checks the signature against some key in a list of trusted identity verifiers. With the verification responsibility being pushed to the OS vendors, that will be a short list of tech megacorporations. And maybe Canonical or Red Hat, if we’re lucky.

They can’t make it illegal, but with a little frog-boiling, they can make it functionally useless for visiting websites you might need to use. No identity verification = no access, and Linux = no identity verification.

Almost perfect. You forgot to replace “community chest” with “shareholder portfolios”

this is a case where the problem isn’t the corporations: it is the government.

It can be both.

So… it actually makes perfect sense for the companies that dealt with this bullshit to get reimbursed by the christofacists.

If the company ate the cost, sure.

If the company raised the price on consumers to cover the tariffs, the consumers already made the company whole. If the company gets the reimbursement money on top of that, they’re double dipping.

While renting.

Thanks for correcting me. Considering a long is also 32 bits, a “Long Pointer” being 32 bits makes sense.

Identifying the windows string types is fun. The letters are supposed to have a meaning. Without looking them up, my guess is:

LP_ - Length Prepended
C_STR - C string / null-terminated
WSTR - “Wide” string / utf-16
TSTR - I have no idea

The H in HGDIOBJ could mean “handle to” and if I’m remembering right, GDI is a Windows graphics drawing interface.

He got off the couch? That’s worrying; couches are inanimate.

Popsicle = should take a seat over there
One-eyed monster = a fan of Austin Powers

It won’t at first. If more essential websites start to unnecessarily adopt it, it will start to lock Linux users out of being able to access the services necessary to exist in modern society.

Imagine if you need age/identity verification to:

• Do banking
• Make online purchases
• File your taxes
• Book a doctor’s appointment
• Apply for a job

The working class isn’t their target audience. They are selling AI to other companies with the promise that AI will be able to increase their profits by replacing expensive and needy meatbag workers.

The AI companies’ goal is to siphon wealth away from other businesses, and the other businesses’ goal is to accumulate wealth by siphoning it away from workers. It will grind the economy to a halt once the lower class can’t afford to spend money anymore while they hoard their wealth. With the way things are going right now, the next step after that will be living in a technofedualist dystopia ruled by the few ultra-wealthy who invested in private compounds and armed militias.

We should be praying for the AI bubble to burst before AI can start succeeding in eliminating workers.

Meta is funding a lot of the lobbyists pushing for age verification laws. Uncoincidentally, Meta both owns a stake in a company providing identity verification as a service, and serves to benefit from not having to moderate its own platforms.