I disagree. A widely useed digital id in itself is dystopian due to the one-click deplatforming risk, and if you require age checks everywhere for regular discussion forums like Reddit then it’ll be widely used.

Might not be much left to go to, if people everywhere give up on protesting and this is adopted widely. I recommend sending an email even if it seems pointless.

on paper I’m not against it

Perhaps you should be, since there doesn’t seem to be a non-dystopian way to do age checks on the internet at a large scale (as in, for more than e.g. sites dedicated for porn, and other very narrow examples). See Cory Doctorow write about Age Verification of any kind: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/ Or look at this EU wallet writeup: https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/-/work_items/13

That would be even more dystopian however. There doesn’t seem to be any good way to do age verification for big internet services without basically removing all anonymity online. Zero knowledge proof doesn’t seem to necessarily save you either, see Cory Doctorow talking about it: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/

As far as I can tell, you seem to be right and this seems to be a EU thing: https://leminal.space/post/37117472 (Sorry for just redirecting to another post, but the topic is relatively complex and I did a write-up over there.)

They sure will if everyone rolls over without even trying to protest. Consider contacting your representative: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm Or for the EU: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#delegates

There are many who think there’s no sufficiently secure, risk-free way to do that verification.

See this write-up about the EU wallet: https://gitlab.opencode.de/bmi/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/-/work_items/13

Or Cory Doctorow on Age Verification of any kind: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/

As far as I can tell, it’s not Reddit’s fault: https://leminal.space/post/37117472 But I could be wrong. Read the details for yourself, and if you don’t like it then consider contacting your representative to complain (this isn’t ChatControl related but they have a useful contact list).

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-force-age-checks-online Consider acting now if you don’t want it to come to other US platforms, too…

I’ll just run away real quick for no reason… 😓

If you haven’t contacted a representative yet, I suggest you do it. After that, it’s time to continue with the hopelessness 😵‍💫 relatable for sure…

Regarding Switzerland: https://www.privately.eu/post/swiss-safetytech-setting-the-standard-in-privacy-first-age-estimation-technology-greatly-reducing-the-need-for-id-checks

I think the only way we’re getting out of this is if people start protesting to their representatives way louder and in way greater numbers.

For anybody reading in the EU, consider emailing one of your representatives and demand they undo this age verification surveillance stuff: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#delegates (Site is unrelated, it just happens to have a list of representatives.)

For anybody in the US, find your representatives here: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

It might be a short-lived safe haven, regarding the US: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-force-age-checks-online

If you’re in the EU, it might come sooner than you think: https://leminal.space/post/37117472

Lemmy will likely be affected too: https://hachyderm.io/@ell1e/116844253291555343 At least for the large enough instances or something, I’m not 100% sure about how it works but I read about some micro service exception that may or may not apply to some.

I agree the kernel devs appear to think they can outsmart the LLM slop problem.

But unless they were able to suddenly get way faster at reviews without a quality drop, which I doubt they did, this indicates it’s not working out: https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-declares-massive-ai-fueled-code-surges-as-the-new-normal-for-linux/

As far as I could tell, no specific cases of plagiarized code in the kernel were cited.

You should look at the studies for that. Given the rate of it, in my opinion it seems like the question is rather where these plagiarized items are not whether they exist.

I wish they would stop putting AI code into the kernel though. That also appears to be degrading security, among many other issues. There’s a longer list here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e12330b9-c29e-45ca-9375-9e3d13426d85@horse64.org/T/

I know this is a weirdo hope, but I personally would wish to see KDE take a more clear stance against LLM code submissions, and to move away from relying on systemd so much. But I suppose most regular users would prefer more tangible features and changes.

A simple sync would show you when it actually finishes. However, it has system-wide effects. Perhaps KDE could lobby for a similar action to become available that is limited to e.g. a specific process id?

Bug report asking them to undo it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2046154