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So I run my app in a linux container under windows and I'm exempt from age verification? Isn't android linux under the hood? I'm sure the law is not so easy to get around. How does it work?
I know it sounds like a joke again, but the GNU/Linux Linux distinction is kinda important semantically.
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
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That sounds horrible
You don’t say. Here are some things to radicalize you: • 2012: https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-w... > • 2003: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ > • 1997: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html.en >
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#206Hope you all are excited for the most important parts of the internet to be completely unusable by default on Linux in a few years.
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I know it sounds like a joke again, but the GNU/Linux Linux distinction is kinda important semantically.
GNU is not particularly relevant here either; age verification rules were never going to affect glibc, bash, coreutils, GCC, Emacs, or any other GNU packages that I'm aware of, and would have equally affected Linux distributions built without any of them. (You could imagine that in the future there's a mandate to somehow tie age verification into boot integrity mechanisms such that GRUB would be affected, but I don't…
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So I run my app in a linux container under windows and I'm exempt from age verification? Isn't android linux under the hood? I'm sure the law is not so easy to get around. How does it work?
It sounds like since Android is a commercial repackaging of Linux it's in scope and Google gets to figure it out.
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I credit Minecraft with getting an entire generation comfortable using command line statements.
when a coworker asked how i remembered the argument for increasing java heap size, i just said "oh from a previous job" :X
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#210Excellent. From now on all kids will become linux natives. The decade of the linux desktop is coming!
I credit Minecraft with getting an entire generation comfortable using command line statements.