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Off Topic Discussion / New California Law for 1984
February 28, 2026, 18:51 |
A new California law requires that all operating system providers (mind you the emphasis is on "providers", not simply developers) incorporate age verification and usage monitoring routines directly into their API. Stiff penalties await all those who won't comply, with no exceptions made for open source or vintage operating systems. Such a law only makes sense, if tampering with said code afterwards is also made illegal. Other US states and governments worldwide are already preparing to follow Gavin Newsom's move and that means, that soon every operating systems - be it recent or vintage - that is also distributed in those areas must have a government approved set of monitoring APIs built directly into the opsys core. Once the ability exists to monitor us all ("and in the darkness bind them") it'll only be a question of time until AI supported permanent monitoring of Desktop and tablet devices will have become common place. In Germany we already have laws on the books that punish sarcastic jokes being made about mainstream politicians. The UK and Germany also don't allow certain critiques of current social and cultural developments. "Denial" of global warming, insisting that humans only have two sexes. The list of potential violations is very long already and growths longer by the day. I always knew the day would come, when our last best refuge be turned into our electronic guardian. I just didn't think it would happen that fast. |
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Feedback & Ideas / Re: Twenty years of System 7 Today
January 14, 2026, 14:26 |
Do we even know if he hasn't joined Steve Jobs already? |
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Pulled the plug on Google.
January 11, 2026, 13:50 |
My new year's resolution was, not to make any new year's resolutions from here on out. The days of "moral purity" are long behind me. When you're young you tend to see the world in white and black. But mine has turned all grey by now. Maybe its the glasses, but maybe its just the way things really are. Nevertheless, good luck to you Sir! |
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Software / Re: Xlisp-Stat Lorenz Attractor
January 09, 2026, 20:00 |
Dear Spintronic - I get an error msg when trying to reply to your mail. "recipient does not exsit". So, I am psoting it here: >>I'm afraid I got neither. I just saw your link about the Xlisp app and since I am fanboy of the fight between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein, I got interested.<< |
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Software / Re: Xlisp-Stat Lorenz Attractor
January 09, 2026, 12:20 |
Shouldn't it run on Xlisp for 68k, too? |
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: It was 40 years ago ... in Mac history
January 06, 2026, 23:17 |
Quote from: Chuq von Rospach via Bolkonskij and chances are that something will come along to make it obsolete (soon, and it isn't out yet, contrary to Amiga and Atari fans) but the Mac will take the fanfare as the pathburner into the next generation (with a footnote to Xerox where it really belongs... Yeah, bad mouthing the Mac truly proved to be the smart thing to do with the benefit of hindsight. Btw. what's "a Xerox"? (satire off) |
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: To preserve or to use?
January 05, 2026, 15:45 |
@snes1423 - One guy's "tin-pot dictator" is another guy's national hero and freedom fighter. Last time I checked roughly half of the American electorate would luv to see the orange ogre jailed for crimes too numerous to list them all here. The rule of [international] law doesn't exist to protect the good guys from the bad ones. Every shotgun can do that. It exists to protect society from itself. Because "good" and "bad" are as subjective and changeable as the mood swings of the fashion industry. I've been on this earth long enough to remember that kind of victory dance many times over. Yet the headaches start the morning after - and too few care to remember those. |
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: To preserve or to use?
January 04, 2026, 20:46 |
Happy new year and if you don't use it then its of no use. |
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: System 7 song (AI)
January 02, 2026, 20:32 |
Hope you used LegacyAI for this. 
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News & Announcements / Re: Website and forum moved to their new home!
January 01, 2026, 14:37 |
Are you still stuck on planet earth, like the rest of us? |
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Jokes Jokes Jokes
December 31, 2025, 20:45 |
@Bolkonskij - That last one gave me shivers! |
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Feedback & Ideas / Re: System 7 Today wishes Merry Christmas!
December 28, 2025, 12:59 |
@snes1423 - I wish they were. But they're mostly addicted to cow manure, aka "bullshit". Now Mistress von der Leyen has come up with a wonderful new idea: To vaccinate" us against misinformation by "pre-bunking" wrong ideas. Its like a government controlled pair of scissors in your head - or maybe your keyboard's circuitry? - that's supposed to auto-prevent the spread of "bad info" through the Net, w/o much need for human intervention. I feel so much better already. |
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Feedback & Ideas / Re: System 7 Today wishes Merry Christmas!
December 28, 2025, 00:04 |
@snes1423 - Having already legalized cannabis in Germania our beloved leaders are now contemplating on legalizing cocaine, too. Truly, this is "the best Germany of all times" (official quote from our likewise beloved head of State). |
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Feedback & Ideas / Re: System 7 Today wishes Merry Christmas!
December 27, 2025, 13:24 |
@snes1423 - I don't do alcohol, because of family background. But believe me in days like these I wish I would, I wish I could. |
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Feedback & Ideas / Re: System 7 Today wishes Merry Christmas!
December 26, 2025, 15:28 |
What I need is a lifeline out of here. I'll sell my soul for a one way ticket away from this place. |
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