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photon12··on France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites
There's a meta-issue with pushing regulatory requirements that are trivial to bypass: you effectively normalize bypassing regulations and effectively create a culture where regulatory bypass is seen as "not a big deal" even if that wasn't your original intent.

People have been using VPNs because they think region-locking streaming content is something where the risk-reward calculus is fairly obvious, and from what I can see that's a fairly normalized cultural trend.

If you do the same thing with porn, you are now adding another layer of depth to the emergent cultural phenomena.

If you think there needs to be a serious conversation about porn access and psychology, implementing restrictions trivial to bypass only serves to reduce the legitimacy of agents trying to make the case for such education.

Edit: you also see this phenomenon with respect to COVID mask mandates

photon12··on Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3995WX Spotted
Running multiple parallel VMs with Xen or KVM is a plausible example.
photon12··on Major Proposed Changes to Linux From Scratch
Lots of comments so far about using Linux From Scratch to learn about the userspace/kernelspace interaction, and while that's all feasible you can do this on basically any distro.

This week I've been iteratively rebuilding the kernel and glibc and the vDSO on my Ubuntu Server 20.04 install and learning a ton about the interactions, while also having the Ubuntu apt repositories to fall back on for when I want to switch from "learning mode" to "just get this task done mode."

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