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Despite signing it, Newsom issued a statement urging the legislature to amend the law before its effective date, citing concerns from streaming services and game developers about "complexities such as multi-user accounts shared by a family member and user profiles utilized across multiple devices."
then why did you fucking sign it in the first place??
words cannot describe the depths of my seething hatred for the complete, museum grade, massive piece of shit that is Gavin Newsom
People already hate him this much, and he wants to run for president. Because Democrats didn't lose badly enough last time.
Why not parents responsible for their own goddamn kids? Stop interfering with the rest of our privacy for this bullshit. Parental controls have existed for decades. Fucking use them.
Because this isn't about parenting or children, it's about a creeping surveillance state
OK Newsom, you've lost me. I enjoyed your chaotic responses to the drumpf but you've officially lost me.
He's not even making most of those responses to Trump. His social media manager is doing it. He's still just another Howard Schultz. "I like the idea of equality as long as rich people don't have to reduce the rate at which they become richer."
So now when I spin up a VM at my sysadmin job I have to tell the server I'm an adult? Does anyone actually know what the fuck we are doing here? What an absolute clown show.
This is what happens when boomers never die and stay in office for a lifetime. They don’t understand technology but are allowed to make the laws that govern their use.
Nha boomers are not the cause for this shit. Smart ass marketeers and tech bro pushing for more precise target identification and thus more reach for them are to blame. And those I stumble upon are definitely on the younger side.
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.
Despite signing it, Newsom issued a statement urging the legislature to amend the law before its effective date, citing concerns from streaming services and game developers about "complexities such as multi-user accounts shared by a family member and user profiles utilized across multiple devices."
Then why the fuck did you sign it if it wasn't ready and needed amendments? Is this what you're going to do as president too?
Rhetorical, of course. Note how he doesn't say he disagrees with the bill, just that it needed to consider family devices.
If this is who wins the primary, we are done. We're basically already done, for sure, but him winning the primary would be the final nail in the coffin.
It’s just a simple DoB input, which can be local afaik
Even entering DoB is imo too much of a privacy breach. In my view, they should just take the highest age bracket described, apparently 18+, and then ask that on OS installation: "Are you over the age of 18?" If the user says yes, it installs, and every app is hardcoded to receive that 18+ bracket when checking demographic. If they say no, then it simply replies that users under 18 may not install it under the laws of California.
Considering the massive number of servers running Linux used in the industry, this sounds like a good way to kill the Tech Industry in California.
This is a gift to Microsoft.
This law only applies to computers used by children. The law explicitly defines "users" as minors. It does not apply to machines used solely/primarily by adults. It does not apply to servers, or other machines with no local users. It won't affect the tech industry directly.
This law effectively prohibits your children from (legally) using anything but Microsoft/Google products until they are 18.
With this law, Linux cannot be installed on a school computer. With a FOSS OS, the local systems administrator would be considered the OS provider, and would be liable under this idiot law.
How will this affect embedded os like freertos or vxworks? There are lightbulbs that have operating systems these days, am I going to have to show ID to turn on my light?
Is this only for Californians? Only Americans? Or everywhere?
The Californian law only affects California.
Individual OS vendors might decide to implement it in a way that affects other places as well, e.g. in the past, Valve decided they'd rather not implement age verification for Germany and just stopped selling all porn / super violent games in Germany. Maybe they'll now implement it for Germany and California.
microslop and or palintir stink all over this, mroe than likely its the latter.
uhhh. So would I need to get everyone who uses the household pc to verify age? Whats stopping a child from using the family pc that was age verified by an adult?
The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age, setting AB 1043 apart from similar laws passed in Texas and Utah that require "commercially reasonable" verification methods, such as government-issued ID checks.
I hate Newsom but this seems like a non-issue.
If it was a non-issue they wouldn't introduce this to begin with.
There's not a single good reason to why an OS would ever need to know someone's age.
Yes but Newsom says funny things about bad orange man, so he's got my vote.
