xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

It's sad that someone needs to explain the concept of jurisdiction to Utah's legislators and the first amendment:

"Signed by Governor Spencer Cox on March 19, the controversial law establishes that a user is considered to be accessing a website from Utah if they are physically located there, regardless of whether they use a VPN or proxy to mask their IP address."

You can't dictate who must obey your law to those outside your jurisdiction where your law does not apply. This is of Europe which fails to understand this with the GDPR and apparently Utah with this new anti-VPN law. I get that there may be some sites that fall within the scope of Utah's jurisdiction, but it's doubtful many actually do.

Does this not sound to you like they are prohibiting speech explicitly protected by the first amendment? Sure does to me:

"It also prohibits covered websites from sharing instructions on how to use a VPN to bypass age checks."

I will also point out that similar laws in the 1990s were repeatedly struck down that restricted access to pornography online. Requiring identification is NOT constitutional.

In the 1990s, the Supreme Court struck down age-verification requirements for online content in Reno v. ACLU (1997), ruling that they violated the First Amendment by imposing an undue burden on adults' access to legally protected speech. The case challenged the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which criminalized transmitting "indecent" or "patently offensive" material to minors online and allowed a defense based on using age verification like credit card checks.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-verification-law

We are incredibly proud to grow our Digital Independence Day internationally:

The website https://di.day is now available in english thanks to @edri.

So please spread the word and help us grow this movement!

>host a website where people can get real live videos of people(including children) dying in the most gruesome ways

>still think you have the moral highground over someone who makes drawings

Love bombing the Fedi to celebrate being under half my peak bodyweight.

First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.

#Meta #MetaGlasses #AR #privacy #surveillance #Vermont

Yesterday, one of the younger electricians was telling me about the beauty of the new alarm systems he installs. While acknowledging the quality of my current one, he said, "It uses a SIM card and calls you. The new ones are 4G or Wi-Fi and use the cloud, so notifications go straight to your smartphone, it's not calling anymore."

I asked him, "And what if the cloud stops working? Why should I have to depend on the company’s cloud to receive alerts from my alarm? My alarm is 10 years old and works perfectly. Can you say with certainty that the company’s cloud will still be effective 10 years from now?"

He looked puzzled for a moment, then admitted he had never thought about it.

The real problem is that people do not realize what this means until things actually happen.

#OwnYourData

finally, Dieselpunk gayming

Modified the C-Island netmap a little to mark future points of interest.

When I think about all the top 10 games lists, most of them are focused either on the cultural impact or on the story/sold units.

But does that really define gaming? When I think of gaming as a separate art form, it is defined mostly by emerging gameplay and the depth of functions used to provide your experience.

So, that would make the list look something like:
Factorio
X4: Foundations
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So, what games can you think of, that provide a true deep gaming experience? And is there a good word, that would describe this kind of games? Because I really think, that I am mising the vocabulary to even talk about this topic.

“In Iraq, it took more than three years to reach that high. In Vietnam, it took six years.”

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/antiwar/poll-shows-majority-of-americans-disapproval-of-trumps-iran-war-lower-than-iraq-and-vietnam

#TheFreeThoughtProject

no you cannot have a natural human conversation you MUST stay on topic at all times REEEE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_z9DXsv2rI

"sySTemD is Not That BAD, iDK why PEople Don'T Like IT"

"systemd is basically a microsoft product" - yes, indeed ~

https://web.archive.org/web/20260320044311/https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41205


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3erhbwqIAM&pp=ygUNYnJ5YW4gbHVuZHVrZQ%3D%3D

#linux #opensource #programming #selfhosting

lennart is actively working on a project to enforce age verification on every SystemD-based system even harder, not just through a silly little pull request, but through a corporate entity that verifies the age of the user "operating the system"

@sister_sam I'm not sure that's the point of 'open source' software, but I would phrase the point of free software as being to put the control of peoples machines and devices back into the hands of the end-user.

I think the problem is not that it's not an effective tool against the state apparatus too, but rather that the state still posses a lot of power and is a threat to those who dare operate a system beyond their clutches, develop an app they can't control, etc.

Will they be able to stop cryptocurrencies or privacy friendly cryptocurrencies despite having arrested a handful of developers (Samourai Wallet), threatened exchanges (which in turn have stopped offering privacy coins like Monero), etc? No. I don't think so. However they're certainly going in that direction with hardware mandates that force manufacturing to occur in the United States, mandated lock downs on devices (anything with a modern wifi 5Ghz chip can't be 100% free), etc. And now they're trying to lock down phones, tablets, and computers through laws like that through age attestation and age verification. The UK has already started going after VPN providers because there are 'workarounds' to age verification. Well, there are workarounds if you can install an operating system you control too! That's next. These people are just so stupid they don't realize this quite yet. Once they fail at stopping 'kids' from accessing social media (60% of kids in Australia I believe are STILL able to access social media, proving how ineffective bans are) they will invariably start going after any other means that result in it being possible to bypass their stupid law to 'protect the children'.