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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
This is unacceptable. And I’m sick of all the fucking workarounds to maintain basic privacy.
This is unacceptable. And I’m sick of all the fucking workarounds to maintain basic privacy.
The Linux exemptions in Cali and Colorado bring up something else if that gets followed on a broader scale: Can’t apps and services just start blocking Linux and start specifically demanding Windows or Mac?
In principle? Yes. It could become a complete cryptographic attestation chain.
I don’t think we’re right on the edge of that rn. But years or decades from now? Who TF knows.
I could easily see things like Discord, Meta, Google, Reddit, and Twitter doing this if it came to that, for instance.
And nothing of value was lost.
Imagine a world where everyone is connected via brain implants. Reality is fully augmented and thoughts are bought and sold while being carefully screened for violations. Only individuals with enough credits can be free in their own minds. What makes us human gets lost as we progress into the singularity.
If they can identify it, sure. But OS fingerprinting is not perfect through a browser, and can be tricked pretty readily.
It’s likely. But I don’t know how much of an effort would be for a Linux based OS to have a pre-made token for that kind of thing.
My work programs from back when I was in accounting, uh, none of them work on Linux. They haven’t even started working on Linux versions.