tangotaylor

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by tangotaylor 5d ago
Thank you, I'm glad someone brought up SB 1119. I hate it. California already has BPC §§ 22601-22606 to protect people from chatbots encouraging self-harm and I don't see a legitimate reason why they had to ratchet up the restrict
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by tangotaylor 5d ago
> children with shitty parents deserve as much safety and support as they can get too. I had an abusive caregiver as a child and I can confidently say that age-gating websites wouldn't have done shit to help me. The way to protect t
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by tangotaylor 24d ago
That song at the end, where on earth does it come from? It says > From LINUX Unplugged 680, “Go Hack Yourself” (Jupiter Broadcasting) but I couldn't find any mention of it in that episode.
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by tangotaylor 28d ago
> When identity documents are uploaded, they are encrypted using a master encryption key derived from the user’s passkey during authentication. ONE still sees identity documents in the clear the first time when it verifies them, right? O
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by tangotaylor 1mo ago
Yeah we definitely have. Here's me and another dev opposing AB 1856 (would have criminalized open source in the name of age assurance): https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/279266#t=10... And here&#x27
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by tangotaylor 1mo ago
> A joint statement by Buffy Wicks, the lead author of AB 2273, Jordan Cunningham, another AB 2273 author, and 5Rights Foundation states, “The Bill is practicable and realistic, drawing as it does on the UK’s Age Appropriate Design Code
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by tangotaylor 1mo ago
This article puts it well: "Bad defendants make bad law". https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/everyone-cheering-the-so... I am not a fan of this case. The plaintiff suffered from severe emotional an
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by tangotaylor 1mo ago
> In a past life I had to argue every year to renew a license for a profiling tool that cost about 20 EUR a month. I’ve heard since that everyone at the company is now getting a Claude subscription, even non-programmers. Underrated quote
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by tangotaylor 2mo ago
> I'm not even sure what you are arguing against. I am against legally requiring devices to transmit a signal that the user is a child to websites. What I want instead is to handle any content blocks client-side. Instead of legally
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by tangotaylor 2mo ago
> that solution has already failed. Yes, granted, a globally enforced whitelist probably wouldn't work. I'm referring to bespoke lists that parents control. I know plenty of parents that use this. e.g. here's Apple's
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by tangotaylor 2mo ago
> Parents can lock devices into "child mode" that emits "user is child" headers. Websites can then block. CA tried this with AB 1856. I wasn't a fan of this (neither was EFF) because of the privacy and tracking c
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by tangotaylor 2mo ago
I dunno about the other states I feel like we need a better coalition lobbying California lawmakers about AI innovation because I feel like they're doing a lackluster job. For example, Buffy Wicks introduced AB 2023 (passed the Assembl
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by tangotaylor 2mo ago
Giving the age verification mania the seriousness it deserves. I approve.
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by tangotaylor 2mo ago
Kudos to EFF (especially Molly Buckley, Rin Alajaji), Oakland Privacy, and all the engaged FOSS developers who made this happen.
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by tangotaylor 2mo ago
There is some bad science behind these laws: https://kidsplaytech.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Panic_Fi...
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by tangotaylor 3mo ago
The plan is to show up at the Public Safety Committee hearing on Tue June 30th. 8:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 Louis Rossmann and David from 3D Printing Nerd should be there. They were at the last one on June 23rd and planned to show
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by tangotaylor 3mo ago
I'm glad EFF's people have the guts to fight this. This debate is very emotionally charged and I think many reasonable people are uncomfortable with the legal panopticon being constructed to "protect the kids" but they&#
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by tangotaylor 3mo ago
Yes this is true. I should caveat that we distributed the tool among a team and we didn't want to ask them to all edit their daemon.json with an ever-expanding list of IP addresses.
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by tangotaylor 3mo ago
My favorite use of this is peer-to-peer transfer of Docker images. The Docker CLI only allows you to use registries authenticated with HTTPS but there's an exception where it allows HTTP transfers over localhost. So, if you use SSH tun
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by tangotaylor 3mo ago
I hate this. It's understandable Anthropic would do this to limit their liability against minors getting harmed. Especially with laws like California's AB 2023 in the works, where parents can sue a chatbot maker if the chatbot har
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by tangotaylor 3mo ago
> These laws exist because social media is extremely damaging to children There actually isn't much evidence of this. Most of the thrust for this hypothesis comes from The Anxious Generation , which was written by a moral psycholog
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by tangotaylor 3mo ago
Agreed. The Heritage Foundation even admitted it when promoting KOSA: "Keeping trans content away from children is protecting kids." And I think a lot of this is projection from parents who massively struggle with social media. It
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by tangotaylor 3mo ago
I wish we could just have microtransactions to buy access to individual articles at a time. Like physical news stands letting you buy a newspaper or magazine. There are so many times where I've bounced away from an interesting article
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by tangotaylor 4mo ago
I first used the contact form on their website and sent a written message so they have my position in writing. Since they might get a flood of written correspondence, I also called their district office and either talked to a staffer or lef
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by tangotaylor 4mo ago
If you’re in CA, definitely leave messages for your state senator and assemblyperson. I already did and their staffers replied that they got the message. This and AB1043/AB1856 just make me so mad. These politicians apparently think th
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by tangotaylor 4mo ago
Honestly you're probably right, code is a better term. I copied that language from Colorado's SB26-051 bill which also has a FOSS exemption and they use the word "software". I'm not a lawyer but I'm hoping that
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by tangotaylor 4mo ago
This is a potential loophole. Companies could have an "open source" OS but restrict installations like Tivo did in the 2000s (i.e. "Tivoization"). Or they could allow installation of modified software but restrict functi
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by tangotaylor 4mo ago
I appreciate this. In discussions with lawmakers, one point we try to get across is how damaging these age assurance laws to the economy and personal freedom, by scaring people away from contributing to open source software and making them
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by tangotaylor 5mo ago
I think they get away with it because it's a dual-use technology. They have this tool that could end the world and people want in on it because they want the power. The answer to the burger analogy is that it's the wrong analogy.
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by tangotaylor 5mo ago
Finally the media is catching on. Lee Vinsel's criti-hype article nailed this 5 years ago, before we even had the chatbot economy we do now: https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-cr...

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