This feels like the first step toward having a 'license' to use a computer. Utterly ridiculous. Its still not clear to me what purpose does this serve.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 10:21 AM Clout Tolstoy <[email protected]> wrote: > 1984 called and they want their TVs back. > > I really am having a hard time seeing what good this will do beyond > companies saying well, we have a system for that and it's a user problem, > instead of not doing the destructive things they happen to be doing. > > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 7:15 PM Paul Lalonde <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The entire effort is another law designed for differential enforcement. >> You won't have any problem at all until you offend the wrong people. Even >> if you won against the charges you would be bankrupted. >> >> Paul >> >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 2:14 p.m. hiro <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 10:49 PM adventures in9 <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> What are the requirements on the external services for asking for the >>>> age? >>>> >>>> Say we just add an age as something that can be entered in with >>>> auth/changeuser. What is the requirement that any 9P service I share >>>> has to ask for an age? >>> >>> >>> if you really want to know, you will only find out in a lawsuit. but >>> good luck convincing them to sue you for booting a research operating >>> system. you might not be important enough to get that level of attention. >>> >>> please also don't forget that people might be baiting your attention >>> with these ridiculous "laws". if they tricked you to go into (and question) >>> such specific details sadly means they already defeated you. common sense >>> dictates you should reject the whole thing, not some minute implementation >>> detail of the thing. >>> >> *9fans <https://9fans.topicbox.com/latest>* / 9fans / see discussions > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans> + participants > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/members> + delivery options > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription> Permalink > <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T75f981946d8422d1-M32bff7e97a0d06273f505752> > ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T75f981946d8422d1-M9c4b0ce7ba1752b70ba3d8f5 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
