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I’m a DevOps engineer and my employer runs a lot of Linux instances in AWS. I’d love for these politicians to explain to me how age verification of Linux web servers should work for auto-scaling environments where instances are spun up and terminated automatically based on traffic volume. I’d also like to know if I should be using the age of our CEO, the age of our company (thanks to Citizens United), or something else.
It's the 20s version of "the internet is a series of tubes". They couldn't explain it if they wanted to, but all they care about is that the bribes are still spending.
Obviously corporations just become exempt from the law. And any laws, any not.
I'd like to see them pair a bluetooth headset to a phone.
How old is that headset ?
If it's over 18 years old, does it automatically pass age verification
only 18 years or younger headphones qualify for consideration.
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These are politicians, after all.
Honestly I wonder if this is why the amendment is being suggested. AI products in particular are likely to be interacting with a lot of websites that will be required to verify ages, and I'm sure California in particular is loath to make waves that might throw that revenue stream into doubt.
Come on, can't be that tedious. What could it be 200-300 instances tops per day? My kid sister does that many selfies.
Obviously uhhhh uhhhhhhh put your ID in a GitHub secret and uhhhhhh social security number and uhhhhhh
politicians are far to stupid to know any of that. The only computer they know is their phone and maybe a laptop.
Also, is each docker container a "computer" of its own? After all, I could use different distro base images!
You are required to have age verification. We licence our age verification on an instance basis. An instance is defined as whatever makes us the most money, or alternatively causes you the most pain.
You know. A worst case scenario.
Yeah, I don't even know what you're talking about, and that makes me extra certain that politicians definitely don't know what you're talking about. It is nice to see them perhaps taking into account expert opinions on this subject, but 1 for 100 doesn't make for a good average.
The govt…. Uhhh…. Finds a way (to fuck shit up)
Good points, and well put!