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California passes law requiring age verification checks for all operating systems | Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online (www.gov.ca.gov)
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AB-1043 "Age verification signals: software applications and online services."

Text https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

Other info https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

California AB 1043 signed. Mandatory os-level, device-level, app store, and even developer-required age verification for all computing devices.

Edit: altered title from "ID check" to "Age Verification check"

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 155 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Good luck enforcing that on Linux.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 118 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's probably the point.

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft and Google lobbied for this to prevent open source from encroaching on their terf

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Likely yes, though it won't matter to me. I'll recompile from suitably modified source code if it comes to that.

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 21 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They might try to stop Linux from booting at all with locked bootloaders.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That would be the point at which things - expensive, crucial things - would start catching on fire for reasons that has nothing to do with anything I might be doing.

[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Like what? I believe you but I'm interested in the implications of this bill

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

that would basically destroy the internet considering how many servers - including microsofts own sites - run on linux

[–] Zeon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Libreboot.org

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's precedent that source code is protected speech, so maybe Gentoo is about to become a lot more popular.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And who doesn't enjoy using 90% of their system resources to compile the 10% remainder all the time?

[–] msage@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

You can compile while doing other things.

Any recent (AMD) cpu will handle it just fine.

Even most games struggle to utilize many threads.

Gentoo is also amazingly easy to use.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

You can use binary versions if you want.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

reinstalling OS is fairly easy. I expect utlities to "correct age error".

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The bigger distros will probably do it, especially any that have an organization to fund their development.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That have funding from American organizations, or are an American organization themselves. Possibly even Californian only.