It won’t at first. If more essential websites start to unnecessarily adopt it, it will start to lock Linux users out of being able to access the services necessary to exist in modern society.

Imagine if you need age/identity verification to:

• Do banking
• Make online purchases
• File your taxes
• Book a doctor’s appointment
• Apply for a job

The working class isn’t their target audience. They are selling AI to other companies with the promise that AI will be able to increase their profits by replacing expensive and needy meatbag workers.

The AI companies’ goal is to siphon wealth away from other businesses, and the other businesses’ goal is to accumulate wealth by siphoning it away from workers. It will grind the economy to a halt once the lower class can’t afford to spend money anymore while they hoard their wealth. With the way things are going right now, the next step after that will be living in a technofedualist dystopia ruled by the few ultra-wealthy who invested in private compounds and armed militias.

We should be praying for the AI bubble to burst before AI can start succeeding in eliminating workers.

Meta is funding a lot of the lobbyists pushing for age verification laws. Uncoincidentally, Meta both owns a stake in a company providing identity verification as a service, and serves to benefit from not having to moderate its own platforms.

It’s like Secure Boot, but without any of those pesky self-signing workarounds.

“But that’s unenforceable”, some will claim.

And to that, let me remind us all of a little-known concept called cryptographic attestation. If that doesn’t ring any bells, then the term “secure boot” should.

Once this shit passes into law, that’s the next step. Operating system vendors have their private keys to sign attestation tokens saying “John Johnson is an adult” and you’re only getting one if you verify your government ID. When you go to a website, your browser sends your signed token to the website and then the website checks if it’s a valid token signed by Microsoft, Apple, or Google.

But Linux?, you may be wondering. No. No Linux. Kiss it good-bye. Your bank will “require” identity attestation for “extra security”, and your bank doesn’t give a fuck about Linux. Your bank will check against whatever list of public keys they want to trust, and it ain’t going to include anything not backed by a global megacorporation.

The man’s getting a two-for-one special of losing both a flame war and a real war.

That is incredibly ironic.

It relies on the .NET runtime already existing on the system, so it can’t even be excused as a false positive mistaking an embedded language runtime as malware.

Either way, somebody pays Apple $10} a year. After paying them the equivalent of a kidney for the hardware. No thanks.

It’s not. They both expose a POSIX API and userspace, but the underlying architecture is very different. macOS is in part based on the Mach microkernel, and creating a process has a bunch of work related to that.

Even ignoring that difference, macOS has built-in signature checking that suspends a newly-started process the first time its executable is seen.

–no-preserve-root

What language was it written in? I read that Microsoft Defender likes to flag the baked-in runtime of some languages as malware because they commonly shows up in actual nalware.

Whataboutism

Good luck convincing tankies with that definition. They will just claim the definition doesn’t count because “the UN is a Western imperialist facade pushing US propaganda.” The same goes for any source that doesn’t agree with their ideals, for that matter.

Anyone following the thread can see that the “accusation” being referred to is China being imperialist.

It’s actually super simple. Those NPUs and secure processing extensions are going unused, so just have a government-provided model analyze frames before presenting them on the screen. They can even introduce it in an acronym-named act, “Prevent Explicitly Depicted Objectry”. /s

ZZ? ZC? Come on now, copilot. You have more options than simply killing it.

I think you are misunderstanding what is possible with the history API.

Pages can’t read your navigation history.
Pages can’t manipulate history prior to their loading.

The original history API is a careless mistake. It can:

• Tell the browser to navigate forward n entries.
• Tell the browser to navigate backward n entries.
• See the length of the history stack.

Seeing the length is a privacy problem. Allowing arbitrary forward navigation is a usability problem that’s ripe for abuse. Allowing back navigation to be more than a single page is a usability problem.

The newer pushState and replaceState APIs are fine. As their names imply, they push a new URL or replace the current URL in the navigation stack. The URLs are also subject to same-origin constraints, so you can’t just replace the current page with an entirely different domain.

Using a replaceState followed by pushState to insert a dummy marker that runs history.go(1) when the popState event is fired allows pages to prevent users from navigating away from the website. That’s shitty and abusive, yes.

Do you know what else can do that, though?

if (window.location.hash != "no_redirect")
    setTimeout(() => { window.location.hash = "no_redirect"; }, 1000)

Or

<?php
if ($_GET["no_redirect"] != "1")
    echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1; url=?no_redirect=1 />';
?>

Back button hijacking is an infuriating problem, but it’s not a new one exclusive to SPAs. This fuckery has existed for a long time.

Edit: I don’t like the state of the modern web either, but as you also noted, the problem with it is by and large Google’s monopolistic dominance over web browsers and their incentive to not take privacy seriously. The only non-Blink browser engine with any notable market share is WebKit2, and that’s only because Apple is abusing their own position.

SPAs have their place in the ecosystem and can do things that simply aren’t possible with page navigation alone. Don’t blame the technology for developers or more likely their managers being shitty.

Thanks for the correction!

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