> On Apr 28, 2026, at 12:21 PM, Brian L. Stuart via 9fans <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 04:56:29AM -0400, gnufan42 via 9fans wrote:
>> Has anybody here heard about the new Parents Decide Act? Unlike AB 1043
>> which only requires the OS to provide an age signal, this new law actually
>> requires the OS to verify user's age (with ID, for example). I also found a
>> website that catalogs this kind of law worldwide: https://tboteproject.com/
>>
>> Honestly I'm pretty pessimistic about the future of computing...
>
> In many ways this is just one more step in the general direction
> that has been pushing me away from mainstream computing for decades.
> It's why I became a Windows-free zone, I'm working on becoming
> an x86-free zone, and I rarely even use Linux. As most people
> know, I've already got my private language so I can ignore all
> the people out there who think they know how to program and want
> to tell me. I've also begun thinking about returning to some of
> my old work and building my own hardware designs with a bunch of
> parallel Pi pico chips.
>
> It all started going downhill when we let people use computers
> that didn't come as a bag of chips that had to be soldered.
> "Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right." It's
> enough to make me wish I had gone into Math or Physics. Call
> it gate-keeping if you want, but computing was a hell of a
> lot more fun in the '70s and '80s when people had to have a
> few working brain cells before they got near a computer.
> Instead we've ended up with a world where all the snot-nosed
> kids are scared of assembly language instead of recognizing
> that it's the most fun way way to program and everything
> else is a compromise driven by suits' desires to make things
> as boring as possible.
>
> If I seem crankier than usual, it's because I've crossed the
> threshold and am now 1000000 years old (in binary, of course).
> And I'm sick and tired of seeing an intellectual discipline
> that I've devoted my life to reduced to a trade and commodity
> controlled by moronic wastes of oxygen that inhabit governments,
> c-suites, and standards committees. And in case you're wondering,
> this IS holding back.
>
> BLS
>
on the other hand, it’s always been defense contractors all the way down.
sl
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