xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Trump Says He's Willing To 'Risk' Your Rights for His Surveillance Powers
The president once said he wanted to kill warrantless electronic spying. So much for that. https://reason.com/2026/04/15/trump-says-hes-willing-to-risk-your-rights-for-his-surveillance-powers/

@mangeurdenuage @phnt @maid @newt part of what made the podcast types on poa.st/elsewhere get mocked (and why that crowd became irrelevant) has to do with this.

They're all about making jokes, telling you shit sucks, and that you should give them money to tell you shit sucks. To quote one website, "The fate of western civilization will be decided by the e-daddy with the largest Patreon."

That's what it boils down to and nothing summed it up harder than the whole GG shit going on. The fact far more people from that movement became e-pundits instead of being gamedevs is telling. I've mixed up Luke Smith, Lunduke, and others in my mind because they fit the mold of "e-daddy who wants money".

Sourdough bagels. This was my best batch yet. Having strong starter is key, these expanded nicely.

@phnt @evan @p @tchambers @kissane @silverpill @Zergling_man I love how these guys completely forget kids have been seeing things they probably shouldn't on the Internet since the 90s and we've pretended it was all fine and dandy for decades and suddenly it became a problem sometime after 2016

Minish Cap's PC port is in the works! I don't like this game very much but I hope that one day we can have a PC port of every classic Zelda game. That would really be something cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6FvJRFeBk

Ok, fellow hackers, I propose a pact: That new EU age verification app thingy ... do NOT help improve it.

Don't publish findings. Don't responsibly disclose insecurities. Don't facilitate them making it bulletproof.

If personal data is directly at risk, by all means, slam their asses into the ground. GDPR them into oblivion.

But on its core functionality this needs to be, to become, and to stay, the most insecure, the most easily circumventable piece of shit code on the planet.

Apparently they rolling out this technology that scans our eyeballs online and forcing people to prove their a 'real human'. I thought the constant harassment of captchas was bad. Somehow they've made things even worse.

@EUCommission If it is for parents to raise their children, then why is age verification needed at all? Parents have all the tools they need already - most devices come with parental controls, and of course they can decide when to give devices at all.

"H.R.8250 - Parents Decide Act"

The US government and masses who support these age attestation and/or verification bills can go fuck themselves. I've been saying that a lot lately. hmm

Basically this is one of a handful of proposed bills that would mandate the speech of developers to include a component that enables nefarious regulations. This is straight out of George Orwell's 1984. It's surveillance of all devices (age does NOT matter here) and in 1984 they were called telescreens installed in every room of people's homes. These two-way devices broadcast propaganda and allow the Thought Police to watch and listen to citizens at all times.

It's not the core component, but what it enables that is the problem. This happened in the UK with similar legislation. Non-MS/Apple users can't access half the web.

The crazy thing is there are potential solutions to these problems, legal or otherwise, but at the end of the day it just shows they have little other purpose than harming everyone.

You don't need an internet connection to have access to a wide array of content that is 'harmful' to minors. Before the internet kids would often pass around their dad's playboys/anarchist cookbooks/etc. Today's equivalent of this is passing around a drive with a significant chunk of the internet on it. More content than anyone could ever hope to explore.

There is also this thing called cryptocurrency, foreign made product, and an underground market.

In Cuba and North Korea we already see this. Despite the internet being non-existent Cubans and North Koreans still have access to a large portion of the same content Americans do.

Europe already has laws since the GDPR passed that results in US news and foreign sites being inaccessible.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/text

It's notable that so-called fact checkkng has manufactured consent for an AI ministry of Truth.

The bill was introduced on April 13th and has been referred to the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce. It's being sponsored by the Democratic party's Josh Gottheimer, with it being co-sponsored by Republican Elise M. Stefanik so it has bipartisan support.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/technology/new-us-congress-bill-proposal-requires-all-operating-system-providers-to-verify-ages

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