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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev
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Apparently this will include Linux...

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[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It isn't enforceable on the personal level, but every commercial distro will need an implementation (and let's be honest, they will each create their own) to sell pre-installed or to offer service for public and private device fleets.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago

Let's just add it to systemd

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 1 point 5 days ago (1 child)

Meh, adding an age question to adduser wouldn't be that bad, we could even replace the current room number question

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Can't wait to create all my accounts using the Unix epoch.