Upcoming California law to require operating systems to check your age

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wow, another fail for California. What is their legislature doing? First the 3d printer monitoring bullshit, now this

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• sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Everyone ignoring what is essentially the end of open computing.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In this case it’s the os asking your birthday, not having to prove your identity to use the computer

    Which while still shitty is the only acceptable amount if she verification.

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    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you are unable to recognize this as the trojan horse that it is then you should seriously re-evaluate your observational skills.

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    • bacon_pdp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, no they plan on going full identity validation

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    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This isn’t acceptable in the least. The very fact it seems so innocuous right now is to get opinions like yours circulating to make everyone feel comfortable with it. People have got to stop thinking in the short-term when it comes to privacy.

      “Oh, it’s just one more data point, what can it hurt now? All you have to do is type a number in a box. You don’t even have to provide any documentation to prove you aren’t lying!”

      Their “age verification” method is useless for accomplishing any actual age verification. So why is it still being pushed? Because the groundwork is being laid now for the actual surveillance to be implemented later.

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  • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I never got a cited response to this question on /c/pcgaming: when was this so called “open computing” era?

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    • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, that would have been the entire history of computing right up until the point that the government starts fiddling with operating systems so ultimately we'll have to provide proof of identity to download or install software.

      I know you kids are too young to remember this, but back in the day there used to be a cartoon from The New Yorker, "on the internet nobody knows you're a dog". Very quickly it appears that many jurisdictions are trying to make sure that it is built into the frameworks of computing that everyone will know exactly that you're a dog.

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• favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They can just make you agree that you are not in California when you download.

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  • lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    One distro, I forget which one as I saw it on yt yesterday, changed their EULA to bar Californians from using the OS after that “law” is enacted

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• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fortunately linux users are quite privacy focused so there is sure to be several distros that will ignore this stupid bullshit. Unfortunately the general public are morons and will just accept it without question when it shows up in the majority of OS’s.

  The days of needed a VPN just to install and OS are looming and I am going to do anything I need to never fucking give any OS so much as a fake birthday because I should have to and I don’t fucking want to.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Even aside from the obvious (or at least, should-be-obvious) tyranny, there are so many problems with this as a concept. For example, WTF is supposed to happen when the OS is in a VM spun up by an automated system and has no human user to begin with?

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  • mickus@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Doubt they even know what a VM even is

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• apftwb@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  sudo apt remove ca_age_verification

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• AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Already posted my thoughts on this in the /c/pcgaming🧵

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