So we're taking that code out of systemd, right?
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Why wouldn’t they?
"Please stop fighting this distopian law".
A game I payed long in my mobile requested me last week age verification.
Game lost...
AB 1856 doesn’t explicitly say that repos aren’t app stores, but a store’s main obligation under the law is to request an age signal from the user’s OS provider and pass it to developers; an exempt open-source OS produces no signal.
So what's the outcome of that? Are covered applications and application store to treat users as children when they don't get a signal from the OS?
Wait... So if Linux doesn't have the api (sorry, the "signal" 🙄) how will sites that require it respond? What does it mean to be "exempt" - every user is considered to be an adult?
You're exempt from the service too probably.
Are you implying "exempt from the service" means Linux gets blocked?
Ehhh, honestly I'm thinking it's more likely they'll block you. That's how these things tend to go in this age.
Kind of like how more and more of the Internet just outright blocks vpns.
This is my growing experience of using GrapheneOS.
Mostly everything works just fine. But certain apps don't, because they've made a choice to use Play store integrity. And there are more and more of them, including the UK government ID app. So I can't use my phone to verify my identity because I use a version of Android that's more secure than Google's.
And yeah, I can see it going this way with Linux. If you can't be verified using macOS, Windows, or ChromeOS (or whatever the new thing is) tools, then you become a second class digital citizen.
And that's why we need to build better and better tools for everyone.
And why we need people who can hammer it home to our political classes that it's vitally important not to be stuck in an Apple/Google/Microsoft trap.
I mean that's what "exempt" means in this context.
Oh I understand what you meant now.
For now. These kinds of laws always enroach.
My tinfoil hat is telling me they’ll do this to make an outlaw of Linux and block it from services and sites. I hope my hat is wrong.
Death nail for Windows
A new malaphor minted in the wild!
The two expressions you merged were:
- death knell for (thing)
- the final nail in the coffin for (something)
"The final death in the coffin" would have some... interesting implications in a couple ways
Edit: also "death nail" means Microsoft started smoking
Death knell.
I still hoped they'd try to apply it broadly, if only to see the outcome of Ageless Linux
A big win for open source software software.
More of a non-loss, sort of. Digital ID being normalized in any respect is still a loss for everyone.
Linux is now the backbone of everything. It you mess Linux up, so many things will break. They realized this finally.
Time to teach kids Linux