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Amoxtli@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours ago

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

www.tomshardware.com

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California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

www.tomshardware.com

Amoxtli@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours ago
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AB 1043 also requires OS providers to pipe a real-time age checker to every app developer who requests it.
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    Simple solution. From now on Linux distros should ship with a big message “NOT FOR USE IN CALIFORNIA”.

    You want to force age verification? No server in all of California will run. Period.

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      Yeah… It says just that in the article. You did read the article, right? I mean you didn’t just read the title and then rush in here to make a comment?

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        Where, pray tell? Out of curiosity I went there to check it out, and the “article” is just 3 paragraphs that just barely expand on the title. Maybe uBlock is triggering some invisible paywall there for me?

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          Keep scrolling there is more, mine has a odd empty ad break too

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            I did scroll down all the way to the comments section, and nothing.

            Disabled uBlock, and sure enough, more of the article showed up.

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        How people farm internet points is serious business

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        Holy shit you can click those?

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      “My name is Microsoft, and I approved this message.”

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        Microsoft’s own servers run Linux. An in-house build IIRC named Azure Linux.

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          And there’s nothing keeping them from adding it themselves for their own in-house use & profit.

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            What does that have to do with anything?

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              If the only server OS legally capable of running in CA is Microsoft’s - be it Windows, or their particular spin of Linux - guess who’s gonna sop up all that government contract money?

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        “We’re every datacenter in Canada e Mexico and we collectively and politely agreed it’s a good move as well.”

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      Ah, the Glock solution.

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