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this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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They're breaking evil age verification laws on purpose as civil disobedience with cheap hardware
OK, the disobedience was the part I didn't get. Thank you!
Insofar as part availability isn't insurmountably impacted this also constitutes functional resistance to all manor of censorship and surveillance. If you can code, test on one of these
I can, but I probably won't, because my backlog is full and overflowing. But it is cheap... damn.