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Comment by bhawks

3 days ago

Can't wait to sign into my web browser with my driver's license.

In all likelihood, most people will do so via the Apple Wallet (or the equivalent on their non-Apple devices). It's going to be painful to use Open source OSes for a while, thanks to CloudFlare and Anubis. This is not the future I want, but we can't have nice things.

  • > This is not the future I want, but we can't have nice things.

    Actually, we can if we collectively decide that we should have them. Refuse to use sites that require these technologies and demand governments to solve the issue in better ways, e.g. by ensuring there are legal consequences for abusive corporations.

  • No worries. Stick an unregistered copy of win 11 (ms doesn’t seem to care) and your drivers license in an isolated VM and let the AI RDP into it for you.

    Manually browsing the web yourself will probably be trickier moving forward though.

What's next? Requiring a license to make toast in your own damn toaster?

  • > your own damn toaster

    Silly you, joking around like that. Can you imagine owning a toaster?! Sooo inconvenient and unproductive! Guess, if you change your housing plan, you gonna bring it along like an infectious tick? Hahah — no thank you! :D

    You will own nothing and you will be happy!

    (Please be reminded, failing behavioral compliance with, and/or voicing disapproval of this important moral precept, jokingly or not, is in violation of your citizenship subscription's general terms and conditions. This incident will be reported. Customer services will assist you within 48 hours. Please, do not leave your base zone until this issue has been resolved to your satisfaction.)

"Luckily" you won't have to do only that, you'll need to provide live video to prove you're the person in the ID and that you're alive.