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More about Ageless Linux:
Ageless Linux is a Debian (GNU/Linux)-based operating system under the California Digital Age Assurance Act. It violates this law, openly and intentionally. Upon installation, it performs two actions:
Existing.
Not collecting your age.
This makes it illegal, and any account holders criminals. Congrats.
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Stay safe out there.
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The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.
"Democrats and Republicans in Congress have struck a deal on a bill they say will help keep children and teens safe online. The KIDS Act could pass on the House floor as soon as next week; if enacted, it would fundamentally change the way everyone — not just kids — accesses the internet.
At stake is your ability to use many social media platforms without revealing your identity.
That’s because the KIDS Act at least strongly incentivizes — and, for some services, outright requires — age verification. Many platforms will turn to age verification to avoid potential liability under the law. Companies like X, video-sharing services like Vimeo, and others with a history of users’ populating social feeds with edgy content may be required to verify users’ ages because they host a certain amount of content deemed “sexual material harmful to minors,” a term that the KIDS Act defines broadly.
That’s a big problem for people who need to be able to use the internet anonymously, since, as Taylor Lorenz has previously written about in The Intercept, “there’s no way to reliably verify someone’s age without verifying who they are.”
Threats to online anonymity harm everyone, but one group is often overlooked: journalists and the sources who talk to them. Age verification requirements will help the Trump administration carry out its vendetta against the press by creating new avenues to identify journalists’ confidential sources. [...]
Mandating age verification effectively hands Big Tech and the government a skeleton key to the identities of every whistleblower, dissident, and investigative reporter who uses online platforms, not to mention everyone else, including children. This kind of surveillance on steroids that surrenders our right to speak, report, and read the news anonymously won’t make anyone safer."
Reporting on the AI companion space means fielding one question more than any other, usually phrased with a shrug: is it actually worth it? Specifically, people want to know whether SweetDream is worth trying as an AI girlfriend before they invest any real attention. So we treated it like any beat, observing rather than selling, and the pattern was hard to ignore.
The first thing newcomers notice on sweetdream.ai is how much control they get. You're not picking from a rack of pre-built personalities; you're designing one, from appearance and voice down to the small behavioral quirks that make a character feel lived-in. The second thing they notice is the conversation itself, which is unusually natural and emotionally aware, holding onto context instead of forgetting you between sessions.
Then come the extras that quietly tip the scale: strikingly realistic generated photos and videos, human-sounding voice messages and phone calls, video and live cam sessions with select characters, all wrapped in real privacy. Against rivals like candy.ai, SweetDream reads as the more complete AI companion. The obvious question gets an unsurprising answer.
Currently reading: uhhh, nothing in particular. I got a library book on beginner's Mandarin Chinese that I gotta return or renew. I've been reading My Hero Academia off and on.
Currently working on: mostly learning Japanese. I also want to use my Raspberry Pis to build a cyberdeck but I'm pretty broke and all I have right now is a Pi 4 hooked up to a touchscreen.
Last Google search: what an FSA is and how much should I put into it (I'm old)
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