California has passed a law (CO considering something similar) that requires software developers to implement age verification at "account creation." Aimed obviously at applications like Facebook and Instagram and X and whatnot, it is worded in such a way that it would also include the base operating systems themselves -- i.e. Windows, MacOS, and yes, Linux. The problem is that Linux doesn't work that way -- you don't create an account with the OS providers to use their freely offered product, and in fact it's totally impractical for them to do so. It also doesn't address the fact that Linux is the backbone of the modern Internet -- it's what runs the servers that run nearly the entire web infrastructure. (When you go to Amazon and buy something, that entire experience is being run on servers powered by Linux.)
While well intentioned, this is an example of morons who know nothing about what they're trying to regulate... trying to regulate. Time will tell if this gets resolved sanely.
The link below is to a lengthy discussion on this situation on the MX Linux forum. If you care to follow it, pay close attention to names like Dolphin_Oracle, Adrian, Stevo, CharlesV, and timkb4cq. Those are among the actual developers of the operating system I use, and who will have to decide how they're going to deal with this bullshit.
Users of Windows and MacOS and iOS and Android will be similarly affected, but their "walled garden" architecture will make implementation possible if necessary.
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=88023
So the bill will kill Linux? I think those regulators might actually know what they are doing . . .California has passed a law (CO considering something similar) that requires software developers to implement age verification at "account creation." Aimed obviously at applications like Facebook and Instagram and X and whatnot, it is worded in such a way that it would also include the base operating systems themselves -- i.e. Windows, MacOS, and yes, Linux. The problem is that Linux doesn't work that way -- you don't create an account with the OS providers to use their freely offered product, and in fact it's totally impractical for them to do so. It also doesn't address the fact that Linux is the backbone of the modern Internet -- it's what runs the servers that run nearly the entire web infrastructure. (When you go to Amazon and buy something, that entire experience is being run on servers powered by Linux.)
While well intentioned, this is an example of morons who know nothing about what they're trying to regulate... trying to regulate. Time will tell if this gets resolved sanely.
The link below is to a lengthy discussion on this situation on the MX Linux forum. If you care to follow it, pay close attention to names like Dolphin_Oracle, Adrian, Stevo, CharlesV, and timkb4cq. Those are among the actual developers of the operating system I use, and who will have to decide how they're going to deal with this bullshit.
Users of Windows and MacOS and iOS and Android will be similarly affected, but their "walled garden" architecture will make implementation possible if necessary.
So the bill will kill Linux? I think those regulators might actually know what they are doing . . .
I went through a drive thru for a coffee a few weeks ago and the screen wasn't working. It just said Ubuntu with it's little spinny looking logo and I immediately thought of @unclemark
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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So the bill will kill Linux? I think those regulators might actually know what they are doing . . .
I went through a drive thru for a coffee a few weeks ago and the screen wasn't working. It just said Ubuntu with it's little spinny looking logo and I immediately thought of @unclemark
Every time I see the term "Think of the children" I immediately think of this meme...
As for Ubuntu, I think that's the name of the Nigerian Prince whose remuneration I am anxiously awaiting.
It should surely arrive any time now.
A good friend will bail you out of jail, but your best friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying "that was f***ing awesome"
So the bill will kill Linux? I think those regulators might actually know what they are doing . . .
I went through a drive thru for a coffee a few weeks ago and the screen wasn't working. It just said Ubuntu with it's little spinny looking logo and I immediately thought of @unclemark
NAPA runs on Red Hat. They only time we go down is when the Windows clients get fucked up, usually from a borken update.
So the bill will kill Linux? I think those regulators might actually know what they are doing . . .
Make fun all you want, but this kind of shit will end up biting everyone in the ass eventually.
So the bill will kill Linux? I think those regulators might actually know what they are doing . . .
I went through a drive thru for a coffee a few weeks ago and the screen wasn't working. It just said Ubuntu with it's little spinny looking logo and I immediately thought of @unclemark
NAPA runs on Red Hat. They only time we go down is when the Windows clients get fucked up, usually from a borken update.
Red Hat is enterprise. Ubuntu, not so much. Not a fair comparison.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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Red Hat is enterprise. Ubuntu, not so much. Not a fair comparison.
Ubuntu is Debian in fancy dress. The Debian base is solid as a rock. The userspace is too, depending on the version.
