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A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
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Re: A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
#212There's an obvious theme with lawmakers in California—they pass laws to regulate things they have zero clue about, add them to their achievement page, cheer for themselves, and declare, "There! I've made the world a better place." There are just too many examples. For instance: - Microstamping requirements for guns—printing a unique barcode on every bullet casing (Glock gen3 cannot be retired, thus, the auto-mode swi…
Headline is wrong, and you didn't read the article. There is no verification requirement. You are a bad HN poster and should feel bad.
All this does is require the user to select a non-verified age bracket on first boot. You can lie, just like porn sites today. I thought HNers wanted parents to govern their children's use of technology with these kinds of mechanisms.
> There's an obvious theme with lawmakers in California—they pass laws to regulate things they have zero clue about, add them to their achievement page, cheer for themselves, and declare, "There! I've made the world a better place."
There's an obvious theme with HN posters about politics—they make cheap drive-by comments about regulations they have zero clue about, based on articles they haven't actually read, cheer for themselves, and declare, "There! I've shown why I'm smarter than all these politics people."
Re: A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
#213I miss the days when politicians just generally ignored computers and left us alone.
Re: A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
#214How wouldn't this also apply to things like useradd(8) or simply automated user account setup, e.g. like cups, sshd, etc? Do we need to add this to vi for use in vipw on UNIX?
Worse. Google has to add this to all the machines in their data centers? Imagine the expansion of DevOps BS this will enable: Vendors will need support stuff like "account holder is 12msec old, and can access adult content". They can even create a special certification for it.
Imagine unattended installations... Which stop to ask you for the age
Re: A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
#215Headline is wrong. There is no verification requirement.
All this does is require the user to select a non-verified age bracket on first boot. You can lie, just like porn sites today. I thought HNers wanted parents to govern their children's use of technology with these kinds of mechanisms.
Re: A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
#216There's an obvious theme with lawmakers in California—they pass laws to regulate things they have zero clue about, add them to their achievement page, cheer for themselves, and declare, "There! I've made the world a better place." There are just too many examples. For instance: - Microstamping requirements for guns—printing a unique barcode on every bullet casing (Glock gen3 cannot be retired, thus, the auto-mode swi…
The incentives are all wrong. You can serve up to 6 two-year terms in the Assembly or up to 3 four-year terms in the Senate, but regardless of which combination you do, nobody in the California legislature can serve more than 12 years combined across both Houses of the legislature. So we don’t have professional legislatures with long-term electability incentives or leadership goals, we have a resumé-building exercise…
> professional legislatures
That should not be a profession.
Decisions should be made by people who are the most informed about the subject matter. By definition you cannot have someone who is the most informed about everything.
Re: A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
#217People who cannot tell what is an operating system and what is not are writing laws
Re: A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
#218Re: A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
#219Richard Stallman's "Right to Read" is disturbingly prescient, as usual.
Stallman has always been right. It's mind boggling just how right he was about everything.
The narratives are changing. All these locks and controls used to be about curbing copyright infringement. Now that AI has more or less rendered copyright irrelevant it's turned into a straight up attempt to control the population. They're barely even making excuses anymore.
Re: A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lobbyists for intelligence agencies. It’s part of de-anonymization so you can be punished for speech online. See UK , Germany and Australia
Interesting theory considering that this California approach does not de-anonymize you, and the approach Germany is working on, as part of an EU wide effort, also does not de-anonymize you.
baby steps