I’m pretty sure that won’t be the case.
Their real intent won’t be to enforce it on self-installable systems, but more like, to enable companies to make that thing mandatory on systems that they sell.
And since the companies want to do so, they will use it to create a “verification” system that helps them feed people’s everyday face data to AI, to enable doing studies on people’s face changes depending upon various stimuli that said companies will be collectively applying to those people.

e.g.

• if you have a period and it is showing on your face, then the next time you need to pick up your phone, the AI will know you have one.
• you got a tattoo anywhere visible, now they know that
• they know the rate at which your facial hair grows and how much you get it cut, so when you open your phone after shaving/trimming/salon-stuff, the company now has that in its database

This is corresponding to PayPal et al. starting with requiring a selfie to “verify” that it’s you.
Well guess what happens when one of those AI companies gets an order from someone that wants to systematically frame you for paying for something illegal via PayPal? They get the highest quality AI selfie generated such that even your mother won’t know it isn’t you.
Oh and don’t go on saying they won’t want to do that. Cell Phone service providers will make fake claims of their customers having activated VAS, just for a few extra pennies a month (this is already happening, even without AI).

if the govt is mandating something

I’d rather the govt. not go around mandating stuff that only empowers those who want to use it as an excuse for mass-AI-voyeurism.

So as a parent, you want every person on planet Earth, making a software, to bear the burden of making sure your child cannot use their software without your consent?

You already have the option to buy something with parental controls.
You can also pay someone to add a parental control feature into an Open Source OS and install it for you.

But you’d rather use the politician?

But does the law require that?
From the interpretations I have seen, it doesn’t even require real verification, just a way to tell the app, the age of the user.

The user needs to tell the system what their age is, so if I get up and a 15yo sits on the computer, they need to change the environment variable before starting any program.
No need for higher privs.

That’s a wash basin

associated “age signal” API for applications to query.

I’d just add an environment variable.
Nothing more required.

Not acting superior.
Just don’t have friends.

markdown is so easy to learn

Only for those who want to.
Although someone playing DnD would probably not mind putting in the few minutes required.

This should open it to being used collaboratively.
Then I can convince wherever I work, to use this instead of going with other MS stuff?

Amateurs

What did you just say?

The researchers suspect this would help shrink the ozone hole that forms over the South Pole every year,

Ok, so there seems to be a silver lining.
A lesser Ozone hole during a certain period.

Now just to know if the Ozone decimation is winning over this little phenomenon.
Either way, the LEO satellites seem to be to big a mess for their worth, unless you are just considering their military worth.

I see. Guess it’s just a me thing.
If I much them continuously, then on top of feeling spicy, I get that other feeling, so I tend to take little bites, while eating other stuff.

Your comment is non-inclusive to trans personalities.
For anyone that identifies as a black hole, all mass is calories.

I’m happy with the result.

pop people like a kitten in a microwave

Does a kitten really pop in a microwave?
I would expect it to just boil as things normally do.

that will decimate the ozone layer in 15-30 years.

🤦
I always thought of de-orbiting just to burn-off as a waste, but now this.

Yeah, without cooking, if you eat too many pieces, they give a weird pain in the chest, which can be stronger than onions, if you have a good quality radish.

Yeah, that claim is pretty dubious.
If it has almost no calories, then it has almost no mass.
To get the approximate amount of calories in a piece, just measure its weight to get the mass (M in kg) and use the formula M * c * c * 0.2390057, where c is the speed of light in m/s.

What about herbivorous humans :P

Yeah, despite the older traditions, it is nowadays not recommended to shit directly in the crop area. And turns out traditions of a time only work at that time and place, which might depend upon other, seemingly unrelated traditions.

But it would still be better off under the soil than on a paved street.

I guess I understand another reason for that in China. Because most of them ate some sort of meat, shitting in the fields might have ended up being a bad practice.
But still, what’s up with shitting on the streets? Did they somehow just rely on the dogs to clean up the streets?