Dafuck? Are you saying this won’t be the case? I mean, it’s not exactly what OP asked but I think a real life functional example of OS-level age checks that already exists is a valuable contribution to the conversation. Do you disagree?

Honestly feels like you’re the “low effort troll” here here swarming a bot army for some votes. Blocked.

Red fash mask-off.

Yes. For example, on iOS It’ll work like this once this is no longer “in error” https://www.theverge.com/tech/884306/apple-age-verification-uk-users-ios-26-4-beta

I don’t know about the new law in California, but here in the UK the age verification push is happening is because our young people are overwhelmingly left-wing and progressive, and get their news online and not from our captured legacy media, and the right-wing establishment doesn’t like that, so they’re trying to block young people from internet access.

Edit: wtf is with the downvotes? Do y’all support this shit? Here are some sources to back up what I said:

https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/voting-intention -

In the UK: 49% of 18-24 year olds are voting for the Green party, highest of any party by far. 27% of 25-49 year olds are voting for the Greens, with only 19% for Reform (the far-right party).

This trend reverses once you look at the age groups over 50, with 50-65 year olds favouring reform at 29% at Green’s 16%, and over 65s favouring reform at 33% to Green’s 6%.

Furthermore, the other demographics factors like gender and even region(!) don’t demonstrate such a clear correlation, and this is further confirmed by another recent poll done where the surveyed were asked to pick between a left-wing coalition and a right-wing one:

Our elderly consume vastly more print and specifically television news than our young people - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/adult-and-teen-news-consumption-survey/news-consumption-in-the-uk-2025-research-findings.pdf?v=400636

See specifically figure 4 from page 9:

This is very inconvenient for a primarily right-wing establishment. I could see similar dynamics playing out in California though i don’t know enough to say for certain.

Obviously I don’t think this is the only reason that age verification is being implemented, especially as it’s seemingly being done all around the globe all at once, and often companies with known links to Peter Thiel and Palantir and the defense sector are involved, such as with e.g. discord and Thiel did allegedly say he explicitly wants to make a surveillance state. Obviously countries like the UK have been speed running that goal for a while so, make of that what you will.

There’s also seemingly bi-partisan support for this issue from establishment parties, arising from tech ignorance of the boomer class and more genuine, and well-meaning concerns about the spread of misinformation from social liberals and progressives, especially where their country’s young people are turning to far-right misinformation.

I think the combination of these two factors is likely what is pushing the specific law OP is referring to in California, though this is just speculation as I’m not familiar with it’s state legislature and their political makeup.

The recent push for these sorts of laws in Europe also could be explained by the fact that those countries can use regulation as leverage in trade negotiations with an increasingly beligirent united states because they know that Trump’s regime is beholden to the tech oligarchy that amassed around him - the same oligarchy who would stand to lose money if these regulations were implemented because they own the platforms primarily targeted by this.

This last reason is further compounded by the fact that Elon Musk has genuinely been artificially promoting far-right content, including his own, on his platform, and he has been since he acquired it. Considering how many people use twitter, its a genuine risk to the political autonomy and democratic integrity of countries like France, which is also investigating twitter for the algorithm manipulation.

This holds as a general principle, but it’s also a principle based on research 60-40 years ago.

For instance in your example, If you bought S&P500 Jan last year in USD and then convert it to EUR in January this year, you would’ve lost money just because the dollar fell so much relative to the Euro.

You’d still be up on a longer term scale and even if you cashed out now you’d be up (though not 17%) because the dollar bounced back somewhat.

I’d say that this is a good principle but not a certainty and still needs to be considered in terms of a gamble.

She is so based honestly. I’m very grateful to her taking these unfortunately controversial positions and standing up for our battered community. Greens are our only hope at this point.

Okay, I see the light. Thank you for explaining it to me!

Idk seeing the amount of intellectual dishonesty and lack of integrity people have nowadays I strongly doubt that former hypothesis, I feel like an idiot because I do things the hard way because I believe it to be beneficial for my personal growth while hordes of people claim to be geniuses with less than no information on a subject.

I think the latter is it.

Far be it from me to argue with Steinberg, fair enough. I must be wrong.

I guess I just don’t see how there was ever a barrier in the first place. The amount of juniors who couldn’t code their way out of fizzbuzz who think they are geniuses has exploded in recent years, I largely count myself amongst them too, with job interviews being as competitive as they are, and a big old green commit history being seen as a plus and people buying stars and such, I just don’t see how this was anything but an eventuality with or without AI, not unlike the endless barely valid CVE slop too.

Idk, but I don’t see why commits of shit code from AI are any different from commits to shit code from fleshbags.

Shit code is shit code.

If the maintainers of the project have their review game on point then shit code will not be in the repo, if they don’t, then AI or not, shit code will be in the repo.

So, I see no reason to panic and raise alarm about AI commits.

If anything hopefully some LLM assistance can take the weight off the absolute saints among us that are unpaid maintainers of crucial FOSS repos, like for instance with the whole XZ situation.

Vibecoding or outsourcing your brain to proprietary tech is a choice like how using an assembly line plant to stab yourself in the balls is a choice. You can choose to use tools in non-idiotic ways as well.

I’d be far more concerned over stuff like Immich getting bought out by a company with all sorts of links to the shadiest blokes going amongst the ultra-rich.

Edit:

Please also see the excellent rebuttal to my take below. I’ve changed my mind.

Voyager sounds pretty rough, try Jerboa instead, that’s the good one.

Huh? I watched it in the app (Jerboa) and it was no problem, I downloaded it too, and sync’d to my immich server, of course 🤓

Human moment

That’s really cool. Lots of innovation in defense tech these days. Seems like it can output 230 V AC / 50 Hz? Kind of cool alone that it can output AC from a battery, I heard that’s kind of difficult to do well?

I wonder how you charge it.

Incredible article, the insight into how this all shaked out it provides is so interesting

We can only hope for riots at this point.

If you think this is cursed… Try playing steam games over X forwarding xD

It’s cool though!

Just use sponsorblock, uBlock, privacyBadger, Dearrow, consentomatic and that one that blocks the JS LAN scans (port authority?)

What’s that file browser? It’s pretty neat.

Idk how I feel about the bold condensed font in the settings menu on the bottom right but still really well done rice.

So this ambxst a window manager or like a full DE or something? No idea what a “shell” is in this context, like an MS-DOS shell lol?

Don’t they mean “boomer” as in “30 year old boomer” meme? Or even just as an insult?

I’d like that honestly if it wasn’t so unpredictable. Sometimes I actually do something and do it well and I get shit for it, sometimes I literally do absolutely nothing the entire week and it’s all smiles and praise, it’s weird and for a long time it put me into a really anxious uncertain place. Now I just try not to care, I’ve accepted I can be fired anytime for any reason anywhere. But that also kinda sucks.