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Episode: 4616
Title: Thoughts about age control and further suggestions
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4616/hpr4616.mp3
Transcribed: 2026-07-31 16:15:12 (official HPR transcript)

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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4616, for 2026-04-13
Today's show is entitled, "Thoughts about age control and further suggestions"
The host is Trollercoaster and the duration is 00:10:45
The flag is Explicit, and the license is CC-BY-SA
The summary is "Big Deborah interviews Trollercoaster, who is an avid fan of implementing Age Control."
Hi, my name is Hopper with Maddie Magazine.
Today I'll be interviewing the legendary Triller coaster.
Following the recent System 76 debacle
where they unfortunately came to their local lawmakers,
I've decided to interview today.
Let's begin.
So first off, if it were 1985,
would you want VCRs to have age verification?
And how would you go about implementing it?
Well, first of all, I mean,
I think it's a good thing what's happening.
The System 76 didn't give, they were just visionary.
They know the way the future is.
They need new hackers.
I mean, kids, kids are spoiled nowadays.
They need more challenges.
They need more incentive to be creative.
It's for thinking, right?
Yeah, it's for thinking.
I mean, that's it.
It's as simple as that.
So they are creating new hackers and new smart ideas
for the future of the System 76 can be the biggest brand in the world.
Because why, okay, so they have to.
What will happen?
Well, those age verification will
the scare away the kids being age 16 or 14 or whatever.
I mean, those were my greatest memories from my childhood.
You were talking about the VCR.
Well, I was only 14 when I parents bought a new VCR.
A VCR is a device where you pop in the tape into a machine.
And then you can watch a movie or even record one.
It didn't come with ads and there were age restrictions on videos.
But the age restriction was printed on the box and you could just ignore it if you wanted
to.
And the trick was your dad had to hide the video somewhere where I, as a kid, couldn't
see it.
I'm probably one of my mom neither, but let's not go there.
It was the responsibility of the person popping in the video to decide if it was a fit for
the audience or not.
Nobody was going to sue Phillips for not allowing to watch those movies.
That my dad has stashed away.
So that VCR of ours had a parental lock.
You could enter a code and then the kids couldn't watch certain channels like Playboy
Channel or whatever.
But here I was the smart kid, I was the techie from the house, so mom asked me to install
the VCR.
And well, what did I do?
I installed a parental lock on Playboy Channel, just didn't tell the, I mean, who wanted
to spoil my sister, right?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, obviously much simply times.
I'd be curious to know how they'd go about it if VCR is existed now, but the second question
that I have pertains to firearms.
The first question before I start with these would be, what is your stance on firearms
and or verification of them?
Firearms, I mean, yeah, I don't care about firearms, I don't have any.
But I think it is important, I mean, the logic of the age verification, it's so simple,
it's so universal, it's, and I mean, the tech is there just, you have the biometrics,
you have facial recognition.
So I think guns suggest implemented in two ways.
First of all, if I want to use a gun, the device will do a fingerprint check, whatever,
it will verify my age that I'm an adult and I can shoot a gun because I'm holding
off.
But if you also put an age verification on the target, I mean, all the, the, the campus shootings
are over because no kids will, we'll, we'll get shot anyway, and if, in some case, a
kid gets shot or a kid shoots a gun, well, it's simple, let's sue Smiths and Western,
because it's their fault that the gun shot a kid for them.
So now that you stated your for it, I, I would like to know your thoughts on a couple of
things, and I guess the first one being say that we implemented two, two factor, two
step authentication on firearms.
So obviously we've got the fingerprint scanner on the trigger, however, I don't, I don't
think our fellow lawmakers here in the States would approve just one.
So how, how would you go about implementing a second one, say about through the sites
or what a camera being mounted, what about firearms without proper sites?
Oh, yeah, I don't know another about firearms, but I, I, I would, I would not, I don't
think, as a mess would be a good idea because having an SMS, while you're holding a
gun, I mean, that's quite annoying, and I also don't think a gun has a numeric bat,
so, but I mean, those are implementation details.
I mean, I really don't care how they implemented for me.
The thing is the liability should lie with the person who created the gun, just like
the liability lies to the person who creates the operating system.
That's simple, and I mean, it's so easy.
So let's not, let's not over complicate things, let's not, not go, go into those details,
because those will cause a headache to the policy makers that they can just leave, leave
that stuff over to the, to the people who create stuff.
So what is your stance on anything containing dangerous objects, so catch and drawers,
knife blocks, gun safe, any of that?
Ah, but that's, that's a good idea, I mean, let's sue IKEA for allowing access to knives,
because let's, let's be honest, I mean, how many kids haven't got their fingers?
So indeed, I mean, a kitchen drawer, it's a minus.
They can contain all kinds of dangerous stuff knives and spicy stuff and batteries.
I mean, kitchen drawers should keep a log of its contents, and should only open to
adults if containing sharp objects or dangerous objects, of course.
If a minor manages to open a drawer and cut itself, the kitchen manufacturer should
be held liable, because obviously they didn't care enough about the safety of our kids.
Those landlords who have to replace the whole kitchen, don't worry, Microsoft will be offering
like kitchen as a service.
A cast, we'll start, we'll start, oh, yeah, you'll have to, when you buy a new house,
you'll have to have a government-medated cast provider.
Okay, yeah, that makes a lot of sense, man.
Okay, so for my next question, I would like to ask your opinion on a way to make this a
bit easier for those who are authorized.
So would you advocate for a government slash jurisdiction mandated NFC chips in our hands
in order to open kitchen drawers or knife blocks?
And furthermore, could we extend this to motor vehicles?
That's a good idea, actually.
I mean, if everybody would just like, shoot a chip in there, in their finger or in their
hands, they wouldn't even have to think about where they put their phone or where they left
their idea.
I mean, it's just there.
We have nothing to hide, right?
So why should we worry?
Everything's fine.
Well, as it may be, we can implement its GPS straffer in there too.
Yeah.
Well, there are kids, I mean, how many parents worry about where are my kids?
I just imagine, instead of search from station, kids now get GPS injection, it's, I mean,
it's, it's a thing, but by the time that they're one year old, they don't remember
any more.
They don't care, and you can just always know where your kids are, isn't that a piece
of mind?
Oh, that's great.
Oh, that's perfect.
So one more thing here, who would be authorized to determine whether or not you are psychologically
fit to open a kitchen drawer?
Well, that's an AI, of course.
That's simple.
I mean, and, but let's, let's, let's not be too short-science.
I mean, we've been talking about kids here and kids there and kids and kids and kids, but
there comes a certain age where your brain capacity starts declining.
I'm not talking about myself here, okay?
But at a certain point, we will be expecting having reaching a certain level of maturity,
and then your brain starts to deteriorate.
Some smart and serious people start trolling their communities with sarcastic podcasts, and
they could be Muslim, Muslim, and a student as a being advice.
That's not the mistake that those kind of people get access to sarcastic things.
So I'm confident that certain companies would be glad to offer a maturity training.
If you commit to share your training data with a platform that they also happen to offer.
So if you want to remain access to the knives and to the spices, you need to have
like maturity exam every two years to renew your maturity level.
I mean, it's, it's just part of that kitchen as a service.
I probably forgot to add other scenarios.
I think you can think of other ones too.
But I mean, there's a comment section under this episode.
So please add your ideas, add your suggestions, because I think the lawmakers really need
our insights because they are so narrow minded.
Yeah, it's pretty bad.
I mean about it, but I just, yeah.
If you agree with me, now is the time to reach out to your lawmakers.
Tell them how happy you are with this new legislation and ask them to expand it into other fields.
Oh, yeah, how have you disagree?
Yeah, man, to late for you.
If you live in other areas, inside or outside the USA, don't hurry, just let your local legislators
do their work.
Be sure not to contact them with your futile remarks because you would only annoy those
dedicated lobbyists, having lunch with metal people already trying to convince policy makers
in your area too.
Ask, I think we covered it.
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