Kevin BeaumontGossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Jul 1, 2026, 8:39 PMMastodon has automatic age verification built in, no scanning your face
✅ if you join here you're old
✅ you've seen too much shit
✅ you're tired of said shit
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Jul 1, 2026, 8:44 PM@GossiTheDog
The first part is no joke.
Joshkrnlg@mastodon.socialJul 1, 2026, 11:34 PM@ohmu
When I joined, I didn't feel all that old. But decadal thresholds have a way of, well, mixing things up...
@GossiTheDog
Andrew Goldinghuronbikes@cyberplace.socialJul 1, 2026, 8:45 PM@GossiTheDog I want to deny I am old but hell, Strong Bad Email #1 is almost old enough to rent a car.
traecertraecer@techhub.socialJul 1, 2026, 10:31 PM@huronbikes @GossiTheDog "I understood that reference!"
...which is a reference to a 14yo movie at this point.
Intaglio WhitegravenIntaglio_Dragon@furry.engineerJul 2, 2026, 12:40 AM@huronbikes @GossiTheDog Well, do you take off your face and hands before you go to bed?
Guy on the runphilleu@mastodon.socialJul 2, 2026, 5:43 AM@Intaglio_Dragon @huronbikes @GossiTheDog
I'm just at the eyes and ears phase
SaThaRiel :linux:SaThaRiel@social.linux.pizzaJul 1, 2026, 8:46 PM@GossiTheDog But what if I'm too old for that shit?
DanteDante@social.cologneJul 1, 2026, 9:05 PM@SaThaRiel @GossiTheDog filter the shit out of it! 😎
Parade du Grotesque 💀ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.orgJul 1, 2026, 8:54 PMAccurate
Jul 1, 2026, 8:58 PM@GossiTheDog I am using Debian, that's age verification enough I guess.
Joe KC1SRIGeojoek@mastodon.hams.socialJul 1, 2026, 10:57 PMLOL I came here to make this Debian joke.
("The distro for people who grunt getting up out of a chair.")
- Joshkrnlg@mastodon.socialJul 1, 2026, 11:29 PM
@Geojoek
Look, I grunt because life in general is hard, not for physical reasons...
@TheTomas @GossiTheDog 
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈🌹flipper@mastodonapp.ukJul 1, 2026, 9:04 PM@GossiTheDog most young people have never had to hack a gibson over a RJ-11.
Bob K Mertz :distressedUS:bobkmertz@techhub.socialJul 2, 2026, 3:31 AM@flipper
Most young people haven't even seen a RJ-11
@GossiTheDog- Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈🌹flipper@mastodonapp.ukJul 2, 2026, 4:50 AM
@bobkmertz
Most haven't even seen an RJ-45 
Jul 1, 2026, 9:07 PM@GossiTheDog if you're here you're old enough to refer to The Hunt For Red October when someone asks what ping is.
And to be horrified and confused that they've never heard of it.
Jul 1, 2026, 9:14 PM@fencepost @GossiTheDog One ping only.
🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑brouhaha@mastodon.socialJul 1, 2026, 10:45 PM@ajn142 @fencepost @GossiTheDog
Nine for mortal men, doomed to die
Richard Hollowayrichardjh@phpc.socialJul 1, 2026, 10:13 PM@fencepost @GossiTheDog when I was 40 I joined a company with about 150 staff. Turned out I was the oldest employee. I commented that "It's like Logan's Run here" and no one knew what I was talking about because none of them were old enough to have seen it!
I felt old that day.
- Jul 1, 2026, 10:20 PM
@richardjh @GossiTheDog does it help that this year is the 50th anniversary of the film?
- Richard Hollowayrichardjh@phpc.socialJul 1, 2026, 10:50 PM
@fencepost @GossiTheDog I did not know that. *checks Wikipedia* holy shit, I'm only just younger than that film! Every day is a school day.
Phil Thane ✅pthane@toot.walesJul 2, 2026, 6:20 AM@richardjh @fencepost @GossiTheDog Huh. My #1 daughter is 48, how'd that happen?
Stoneface Vimescapnthommo@c.imJul 2, 2026, 4:13 PM@fencepost @richardjh @GossiTheDog oh don't. I saw that at the cinema when it was new. My god, I must have been 21 at the time.
Number6 :syncthing:number6@fosstodon.orgJul 1, 2026, 10:42 PM@richardjh @fencepost @GossiTheDog
It seems like the new organization structure is that all the workers are in their 20s, and all the CEOs/Presidents are in their 80s.
- Richard Hollowayrichardjh@phpc.socialJul 1, 2026, 10:54 PM
@number6 @fencepost @GossiTheDog a company I contract to now is around mid 20s to mid 70s, there are only nine of us and it is the best team I have ever worked with. But I know that is rare.
Jul 2, 2026, 1:49 AM@fencepost @GossiTheDog Glad my colonoscopy was last year..
bit101bit101Jul 1, 2026, 9:16 PMI've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
IRQ jumpers on dial up modems.
I've watched disk defraggers glitter in the dark on Windows 3.0.
All those moments will be lost in time, like backups on Jazz disks.
Time to power off.
Stefan Baur 8 * 💉farbenstau@infosec.exchangeJul 1, 2026, 9:27 PM
Sidal ♀️anon98@infosec.exchangeJul 1, 2026, 9:16 PM@GossiTheDog most of gen-z wouldn't survive being here.
- Jul 2, 2026, 11:09 AM
- Sidal ♀️anon98@infosec.exchangeJul 2, 2026, 4:21 PM
@Alan @GossiTheDog hey?
Marty FoutsMartyFouts@mastodon.onlineJul 1, 2026, 9:19 PM@GossiTheDog Mastodon is where I come to hear young people complain about being old. 😜
Scott Francisdarkuncle@infosec.exchangeJul 1, 2026, 9:39 PM
8tpercent8tpercent@fosstodon.orgJul 1, 2026, 9:21 PM
Jul 2, 2026, 6:50 AM@8tpercent @GossiTheDog
Ah, that's Minesweeper, isn't it?
Markus Gainesnecromanticnomad@mastodon.onlineJul 1, 2026, 9:31 PM@GossiTheDog I'm 24, but damned if I'm gonna deal with the idiots swarming the rest of the internet. This place and Tumblr are my safe spaces.
Dgchultaeizdgchultaeiz@layer8.spaceJul 1, 2026, 9:32 PM@GossiTheDog You're absolutely right. You nailed it
݁˖ᨳଓ 𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓁 .ᥫ᭡.ִֶָ𓂃angelxxbrielle@mastodon.socialJul 1, 2026, 9:36 PM@GossiTheDog disagree. i just joined and im baby <3
xs4me2xs4me2@mastodon.socialJul 1, 2026, 9:44 PMObviously…
peterfrpeterfr@mastodon.artJul 1, 2026, 9:52 PM@GossiTheDog forgot who wrote that here, but it was something like "I use Debian, that should be age verification enough."
perfection!
tenkumatenkumaJul 1, 2026, 10:00 PM@GossiTheDog true, underage people are too busy hooked in other social media abusive algorithms:
JJguitarfosec@cyberplace.socialJul 1, 2026, 10:00 PM@GossiTheDog I'm old enough that this was my first foray into hacking:
- Number6 :syncthing:number6@fosstodon.orgJul 1, 2026, 10:35 PM
AOL: Always Off Line
Calamity Joan 😷clickhere@mastodon.ieJul 1, 2026, 10:55 PMI'm old enough to remember Cyberbob, the first time around.
Moriel 🏳️⚧️moriel@chaosfem.twJul 1, 2026, 10:14 PMMaybe, but the standard Mastodon software now asks for your birthdate when you sign up. It says this information won't be saved, and there doesn't seem to be any verification of it, but given the way the laws are going I don't think it will be too much longer before the big operators like mastodon.social are required to join in the new ID verification schemes.
There should always be a place for small, private servers, but anyone the governments decide is "commercial" is going to have to give in at some point unless we can stop all of these ID schemes and roll back the ones already in place.
Frank Heijkampalterelefant@mastodontech.deJul 2, 2026, 6:33 AM@moriel
Being genuinely decentralized is the power of the #fediverse. If no single instance gets large enough for the law of age verification to apply we will all be saved from this.
@GossiTheDog
KrazyKatKikoKate@mstdn.partyJul 1, 2026, 10:20 PM@GossiTheDog Concur.
Jul 1, 2026, 10:29 PM@GossiTheDog on mastodon everyone is a cat... and cat are not subject to Palantir surveillance progra... age vérification.
Paweł Pyś 🧩 :gilotyna: 🏴☠️PabloveSky@mastodon.com.plJul 1, 2026, 10:31 PM@GossiTheDog and it's been forever since!
JungYulKim Dotcom Free PressNathanMurdock@mastodon.socialJul 1, 2026, 10:33 PMIf they did, I'd need to pull a twenty years ago photo "Me when I was still young".
- Number6 :syncthing:number6@fosstodon.orgJul 1, 2026, 10:34 PM
It reminds me of the thermos I bought that promises to keep cold things cold and hot things hot.
And I always wonder, how does it know?
TelH90kkarhan@mastodon.socialJul 1, 2026, 10:36 PM@GossiTheDog +9001%
Fennixfennix@infosec.spaceJul 1, 2026, 10:40 PM
Jul 1, 2026, 10:45 PM@GossiTheDog if you hear someone talking about 2009 being a difficult year, you know already ....
- Calamity Joan 😷clickhere@mastodon.ieJul 1, 2026, 10:46 PM
🔘 I'm in this toot and I don't like it
GogumaPictoPulse356@mastodon.socialJul 1, 2026, 10:54 PM@GossiTheDog You are completely right, and if you have a blog you mastered internet
Nova🐧✨technobaboo@ordinary.cafeJul 1, 2026, 11:00 PM@GossiTheDog dang 24 is old? galujingjikldsgnlkjSDNGLIKSDGNJIL
