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corporate computing, years III
that whole legally-required OS age-verification thing is worrying me. big brother testing the waters. luckily its pretty much impossible to apply to most Linux distros, since theyre usually run by communities whom dont need to obey since they arent vendors (Linux is Free!) and thus dont apply, or the distro is being sold and so is probably only being used in headless-server contexts where its impossible for the machine to even get the chance to ask since its all automatic on that front. i dont need to do any radical changes in my uses. still, its worrying. if they think they can do that to entire OSes, whats stopping them from requiring surveillance software, or locking you out of every website, which in this age is like locking you out of basically everything? it would suck! if you had to put your face on everything! luckily it seems to only be applicable to corporations, which to me is just speeding up the process of handing all the internet-things back to the communities, councils and people. i dont like companies holding the internet. for e.x., i feel its unfair the google corps. has exclusive access to the .google URL suffix. infinite jest and the ONAN and all really opened my eyes to how ridiculous its all getting. show us your face before you talk to people on the worlds most used instant messenger. show us your face before you are allowed to play games you own. show us your face before you can even use your fucking computer!
also, related to the blogpost wherein i detail a few names of years, i realized a lot of them arent very memorable, so i want to make up even more. this year is the Year of the Blacksmith Sixth Millennium Hyperweapon, or YBSMH. very memorable. but Year of the Boilbai Resuscitation and Concurrent Diffusion Checkout System, or YBRCDCS, isnt nearly as memorable, even as an acronym. i thought of Year of the Canonical Age-Verifying Codec, or YCAVC, which is based upon the whole impossible-to-implement OS-age-verification fiasco (Canonical is the non-US based company that manages/makes/runs Ubuntu, which is a fork of Debian). i like how its acronym sounds, but its still a genuine-corp. name and i still prefer abstract ones or absurd hypothetical ones, so i want to make up another that has the same letters or similar ones. YCAVK? YCMYK? iunno.
also, related to the blogpost wherein i detail a few names of years, i realized a lot of them arent very memorable, so i want to make up even more. this year is the Year of the Blacksmith Sixth Millennium Hyperweapon, or YBSMH. very memorable. but Year of the Boilbai Resuscitation and Concurrent Diffusion Checkout System, or YBRCDCS, isnt nearly as memorable, even as an acronym. i thought of Year of the Canonical Age-Verifying Codec, or YCAVC, which is based upon the whole impossible-to-implement OS-age-verification fiasco (Canonical is the non-US based company that manages/makes/runs Ubuntu, which is a fork of Debian). i like how its acronym sounds, but its still a genuine-corp. name and i still prefer abstract ones or absurd hypothetical ones, so i want to make up another that has the same letters or similar ones. YCAVK? YCMYK? iunno.