Hello,

I've receive your messages loud and clear. You want more cat pictures. I have 12 "cat blocks" on VXUG already. Each "cat block" is 2,000 pictures. I'll add like, 37 more blocks.

I will work on uploading tonight

https://vx-underground.org/Archive

I make them smaller "blocks" because last time I bundled them all together it was over 162GB and several thousand people tried it download it at once.

It resulted in 100TB of data attempting to be pulled and our infrastructure imploded.

tl;dr ddos via cats

My computer hard drive sounds like a bunch of loose change bouncing around inside a dryer.

No idea what that means

It suddenly stopped. Now it sounds like a bunch of fish gurgling under water.

"Because of Claude, a practicing physician was able to vibe code an app to work with his patients. With AI, anyone can be a software engineer!"

Correct. Likewise, anyone can be a Doctor now. Claude, diagnosis my patient, make no mistakes.

You don't need to visit a Doctor. Visit M.D. Smelly Smellington's AI healthcare facility (The M.D. stands for Madeup Doctor).

United States Colorado Sen. Matt Ball and Rep. Amy Paschal have authored bill SB26-051.

SB26-051 would require Operating System, such as Windows or Linux, to perform age verification on users which then third party apps can leverage via API to ensure someone's age.

You can read more about it in the link below. As is tradition, this is a proposed bill and is not officially law. It is just a proposal. There is no guarantee it would pass into law.

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202602/colorado-moves-age-checks-from-websites-to-operating-systems

>be me
>have influenza type a, like 3 weeks ago
>recover
>omg thank god
>fast forward
>visit family
>they have a bunch of kids
>running around
>coughing
>smearing boogers everywhere
>haha im immune
>fast forward to thursdays
>cough
>hehe throat tickles
>saturday
>coughing up mystery goop
>ears popping (???)
>fatigue
>body aches

I'm gonna say something no one has the balls to say. We need to BAN children. Children need to be CRIMINALIZED. They're disgusting creatures and create plagues (except my son, he's perfect in every way imaginable)

I've never gotten this sick until my son was born and we started spending more time around other family members and their children.

WHY ARE THEY SO DISGUSTING? WHY DO THEY MAKE DISEASE? This kid ran up, said "Uncle Smelly, can I have a hug?". I said, "Haha, of course kiddo".

HE COUGHS IN MY FUCKING FACE. WHY WOULD HE DO THAT? IS HE INSANE

/me flips desk

Meanwhile on Xitter, games are extremely mad about this new Xbox CEO being a woman and also being Indian. I know absolutely nothing about her, but I decided to make a post praising her for her success. As expected, gamers are MAD. Conspiracy theories are floating around that I am actually an Indian living in INDIA. Some have speculated I am a SIMP and Microsoft CUCK.

I am sick, but enjoying reading comments from GAMERS about this DEI INDIAN WOMAN and how she is RUINING GAMING

tldr bored, sick, made silly post, gamers mad.

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2025416657024266362

I made that post about that Xbox CEO lady intentionally inflammatory. I knew gamers would go schizo and start screaming at their computer monitors.

It made me giggle. I said, "hehe gamers are gonna be so rustled".

I subsequently went to nappy noo noo city (my favorite city)

I woke up this morning to an absolute slobberknocker in the comment section. New conspiracy theories have surfaced that I have been larping as an American for 6.5 years, and am actually a man located in India.

Others have speculated I am actually a homosexual, "a simp", and some other mean stuff.

It's all very silly shenanigans.

My favorite comments were those who wrote "you're brown" and informed me they'd be unfollowing me and/or blocking me.

I couldn't believe it.

I thought to myself, "that random person on the internet, who I have never met, seen, interacted with, or even knew existed, has expressed dissatisfaction with my post to such an extent they had to inform me of their departure".

Consequences have never been the same.

Chat, I've got excellent news you're going to love. I'll break this down into two parts. I'll provide the mega tl;dr because most of you are lazy. Then I'll do the actual explanation.

tl;dr Mark Zuckerberg is proposing age verification should be handled at the Operating System, at least on mobile devices.

Non-tl;dr
Meta is being sued because a bunch of people said Meta intentionally made platforms such as Instagram addictive to kids. The people suing Meta assert Meta didn't provide any safeguards to protect kids from Instagram addiction.

One person suing Meta claims Meta messed her up, fried her brain (I'm super paraphrasing, she didn't literally say that). She sued TikTok and Snapchat. They settled for an undisclosed amount. Google and Meta are fighting this lady.

The court case is getting funky. Meta and Google first questioned the validity of the term addiction, because addiction in the legal and/or medical sense would indicate a medical or life threatening emergency.

Additionally, Meta and Google assert they're shielded from liability because of some old ass laws about stuff, blah blah blah, and they have no control over what people post. Hence, her addiction to Instagram is not a real addiction and it is her own fault because she chooses to view the content. No one forced her to view the content and she knowingly violated Meta ToS when she made an Instagram account (or her parents allowed her, whatever).

The people suing cite statistics that over 4,000,000 users on Meta platforms are under the age of 13. Meta (or Zuckerberg, rather) retorted that it is virtually impossible to accurately determine someone's age online.

Mark Zuckerberg has proposed some sort of digital national ID in the United States which is handled at the Operating System level. This shifts liability away from 3rd party platforms. Mark Zuckerberg's proposal coincides with the United States KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) which (in extreme summary) would place age verification stuff at the Operating System level.

While KOSA was successfully introduced to the United States Congress, it is currently under evaluation by a bunch of different committees. If the committees agree this bill sounds good, it will then proceed to the House and Senate for approval. Of course, there is no guarantee it would pass. Furthermore, the bill has been in limbo for almost one year.

Anyway, basically Zuckerberg is endorsing KOSA because it shifts liability away from Meta and onto Operating System vendors. Zuckerberg did not state how he believes KOSA could be implemented on Linux (it's literally impossible).