What with the discussion of age verification it'd be a really good idea to get the iso of your favorite distro(s) _now_ before they take down all legacy downloads without the age verification. It could also be good to keep their torrents seeded.
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2@heavens_feel@poa.st No, people are freaking out over nothing. This California law is an absolute nothingburger.
You don't have to download ISOs now, because first of all it will go into effect in 2027.
And second of all if you actually read the bill you'd know that it never requires any sort of online ID verification. It simply requires the "account holder" to indicate their date of birth. This means if simply adding a date of birth field without any online checks is sufficient to comply.
And also if you as a developer don't live in California you don't have to give a shit.
@SuperDicq @heavens_feel Let me remind you of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
If you don't see it as a trojan horse to figure out who is willing to comply and who is not, only to then try to force more egregious age verification, you aren't seeing the full picture. The point of all of this is to make a base, lawmakers can then abuse to push ID verification and whatnot, because they already have an API capable of doing exactly that.
If you don't see it as a trojan horse to figure out who is willing to comply and who is not, only to then try to force more egregious age verification, you aren't seeing the full picture. The point of all of this is to make a base, lawmakers can then abuse to push ID verification and whatnot, because they already have an API capable of doing exactly that.
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1@phnt@pl.borked.technology @heavens_feel@poa.st Pushing ID verification into GNU/Linux is literally impossible. It's free software, the user can just remove it.