xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation, regarding a new bill that is about to pass in California that mandates everyone ID online (not just age attestation, but like a literal biometric ID on many if not most sites you access):

"By banning access to social media platforms for young people under 16, California is emulating Australia, where early results show exactly what EFF and other critics predicted: overblocking by platforms, leaving youth without support and even adults barred from access, major spikes in VPN use and other workarounds ranging from clever to desperate,"

And the disturbing part I'd like to comment on:

"and smaller platforms shutting down rather than attempting costly compliance with these sweeping bills."

Yea, or they just flat out leave California. There is this thing called jurisdiction and companies that don't operate in California are generally not subject to California law. Particularly laws that don't have equivalents elsewhere (in the extraditing jurisdiction). In other words Canada isn't going to extradite someone from Canada to the US for picking their nose and posting about it online when the US bans it because it's only illegal in the one country. This isn't always the case- but it's usually the case (the US and UK have a one-way thing going where the UK extradites to the US, but not vice versa humorously because the US didn't hold up their part of the deal after signing some treaty recently, but the UK did).

Can we all say it: California, go fuck yourself.

I'll add one more comment, so a company might become subject to California law if they market to those in CA more explicitly or ship their own property into CA (rent DVDs) or pay contractors to fix PCs of customers in California,

https://eff.org/effector/

> do work
> upload
> nobody cares
> no dopamines
> stare off at the wall rest of the day

can't wait to do it all again tomorrow

I take it back I find Valve fanboys more annoying than Bethesda fanboys at this point. I'm kinda annoyed at the mindless dick riding of Gabe Newell when Counter Strike 2 doesn't even have a functioning anti-cheat and they've neglected the game for the last 2 years for everything but stupid cosmetics and updates to make cosmetics look better. Then I see retards going apeshit over an overpriced gamepad because it has TMR. I could put TMR sticks in my existing gamepad for a 5th of the price.

I do like the idea of SteamOS and gaming on Linux but gaming wise Valve hasn't really done anything mind blowing since The Orange Box in 2007 and that was 19 years ago. Portal 2 was alright but I never cared for Dota and I could care less about Deadlock as that will probably suffer the same fate as TF2 and CS2 and just be botted to hell and back with a dogshit anti-cheat.

We don't think any institution or state has the right to prevent families and friends from private chatting, physically or digitally. But the Cyber Authority China (CaC) seems to take offense:

- they made Apple remove #deltachat iOS for mainland china

- their great firewall appears to block some #chatmail relays

- if you ask DeepSeek directly about Delta Chat, it doesn't want to talk

It's pretty sad, really. Everybody on this planet needs, and has a human right to private communication.

>Youtubes CEO and employees gets replaced with indians
︀︀>Youtube becomes a virus

"A suspected YouTube bug is currently slowing down computers and browsers. ︀︀Some users have reported that YouTube is using 100% of their CPU and freezing their tabs"
https://fixupx.com/SeverusChud/status/2051411939901768079 @PG_Kelly @adam

I find it kinda crazy when people put on this whole show about how Xorg is deprecated or whatever but in reality it's works perfectly fine.

Meanwhile Wayland has objectively, measurably and significantly worse latency than Xorg. Not to mention buggy.

Like, I'm just gonna keep using Xorg. This isn't a political stance. It's just better, objectively so, I don't what else to say.

So, I had no idea that Lazy Town was actually a book first and foremost and then a stage play, in which an adult actress portrayed Stephanie. The sequel play's portrayal of her also seems to be an adult. This is moot anyway because yeah, the original story was a book that obviously has no actors at all.

This changes my perspective on the character being drawn entirely. It's pretty important context that I was missing and I apologize for that.

I can indeed be wrong sometimes. Crazy.

@redneonglow @teto also a non-trivial faction of the online right got suckered into neo puritanism, in part so they could carry out their larp of shoving the nerds in the locker rooms.

> Utah's Senate Bill 73 goes into force on May 6, websites subject to the state's age verification law will be legally barred from explaining how to use a VPN to get around age restrictions.

this sounds like god's most obvious first amendment violation

Things aren't looking good for the companies implementing age verification, Roblox just reported:

"As of the end of the first quarter, 51% of global daily active users had completed age verification,"

"Roblox cut its full-year 2026 bookings forecast by roughly $900 million at the midpoint on Thursday, blaming stronger-than-expected headwinds from its mandatory age-verification rollout"

for anyone who wants to play the worst zelda game, you can now play minish cap on pc!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2SiMyWGhQg

okay it's not actually THAT bad, but the kinstone stuff just sucks ass. if there is ever an option to have additional buttons for your gear, play using that, because having the kinstones take up an entire button that can't be remapped is diabolical.