No, but I remember once reading an online post where someone didn’t know they were allergic to (certain?) cheese and thought everyone reacted to it the way they did.

The only thing for which I have found that to be true is sushi. Everything else is way easier with a fork.

There are many places other than “disaster response areas” in the world where tap water isn’t safe to drink.

I agree with you when it comes to bottled non-sparkling water at home. But sparkling water doesn’t come from public fountains nor do those exist everywhere you might travel to.

I think it must have been Etch, though I had to look at a versions table to figure that out.

It’s funny because Debian was the first Linux distro I ever installed and used.

Very shortly after my 14th birthday.

So you’re agreeing with me that this was supported by both parties…?

(I’m actually Austrian, not German; I have however read enough about US politics that I’m fairly confident in my statement above.)

Garuda Linux will not implement any age verification measures, since Garuda Linux’s legal jurisdictions have no laws mandating age verification.

Yes. That’s how it should be, that on the Internet you only have to comply with laws where you or the servers you are hosting things on are based, and all other places can piss off when it comes to enforcing their laws.

And it’s how it mostly used to work, but we now live in this world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_indictment_of_Pavel_Durov

One of my childhood dreams was to run my own successful web forum. Now that we live in this world where that means countries might prosecute me because my users have been doing things that are illegal somewhere in the world, that dream is officially dead. >:(

The big deal is that it’s on the heels of age verification bullshit that fascists are pushing through with the help of tech bros, so that they can eventually push all of us into a scenario where we have zero privacy.

That’s a bit difficult to argue in a world where the most prominent of such laws was passed in California, where Democrats control the entire legislative process.

I have not looked up the voting record for it, but would suspect that, like most of the worst laws in the US, it was enthusiastically supported by both parties? Am I wrong about that?

you mean like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutraloaf or what

I thought I’d read somewhere that in Germany, the regional governments do most of the heavy lifting in terms of legislation, with a very limited federal government

The federal government in Germany certainly has more legislative power (in comparison to state governments) than that of the US.

The thing about Germany is that in Germany, there are many areas where federal laws are enforced by state executive branches, which isn’t really a thing in the US.

Isn’t this just a slight variation on the Simpsons joke “alcohol-free beer $5”? 😁🍺

It’s probably going to be even harder to prevent here because due to federation it’s very easy to open multiple accounts across instances and no instance admin has full user data of accounts on other instances…

But it also provides the opportunity to move to instances (and their communities) where the problem is well-managed, if any exist.

wait wait wait reddit is against AI bots? news to me… https://documentingourdecline.substack.com/p/ai-bots-appeared-after-reddit-partnered

(Why exactly would anyone believe that face ID verification can stop AI bots? Have they seen how well generative AI can generate videos of humans?)

We could also use the term “age declaration”.

It’s not by itself an outrageous feature (what does that even mean, outrageous feature). What is outrageous is that governments around the world are starting to think they have the authority to compel this.

I hoped that the answer to this would be in the post body, but no, no opportunity for me to learn about something new. 😕

https://xkcd.com/810/ was oddly prophetic

Kids likely don’t frequent forums like Lenny.

“Kids” being people of what age? Because I started regularly posting to web forums at the age of 10 and if Lemmy had existed then, I might very well have joined it.

Either we quickly find a way to undo the damage government regulation has done to it in the last ~10 years, or we lose all the good it could do for society forever because the coming generations won’t know what they’re missing. :(

Neither in Judaism nor Christianity are the Ten Commandments the only religious rules that exist.

Part of it is an instinct. All mammals, including humans, have evolved to be at least somewhat competent at raising offspring because those that weren’t had an obvious evolutionary disadvantage. Think of how other animals do it; if they can do that, why wouldn’t you?

But it’s a skill like any other, you can read books or watch videos or attend courses about it, or you can ask people who’ve successfully done it before (such as your parents).