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If you can feel a very small tinge of existential horror when you read the words "try to", congratulations, you're a true *nix devotee.
If legislators get grumpy about this, just gently thwap them with your handy copy of The Unix Haters Handbook and tell them you're working as hard as you can under the circumstances.
The problem with that whole situation is the way the law is written the developer is the one held responsible if a child circumvents the check to access adult content. Therefore, developers will have to pay hefty fines unless they:
-1: Have a way to positively make sure the person enters their age is telling the truth; and
-2: Lock this value from being changed by the user afterwards.
Or: Region lock the OS.
One can see how incredibly problematic this is for both privacy and true ownership and control over your own machine. There is also a lot that needs to be figured out in the law such as what will happen when someone inevitably finds a way to hack the system to circumvent it, especially the region lock. Ultimately, big tech has deep pockets and can shrug off the fines but small nonprofit open source projects will be killed by them.
This law is specifically designed to kill nonprofit-run and private software like Linux.
Making the vendor culpable for a user bypassing a software lock is absurd but then again so is this entire bill.
All of this seems impossible to enforce in the FOSS ecosystem. People can just fork the software and remove any restriction they don't like. That's kind of the whole point of free software. Users are free to use their devices however they like, including in ways that are not intended by the devloper.
You're right. Computing devices need to be locked down in such a way that prevents consumers running software that isn't signed by an approved/licensed software vendor owned and/or favored by an oligarch and existing general purpose computers need to be made illegal. We don't need "hobbyist programmers" anymore, humans have no place writing code.
This law is specifically designed to kill nonprofit-run and private software like Linux.
I do not know if that is true. Most of the political hacks writing these bills have zero understanding of computers and do not even consider Linux in the equation. They see Windows, iOS, Android and macOS.
This is more aimed at mom and dad with three children who have tablets for all the shits and take no responsibility for what the kids do with the devices.
Linux devs will just step back from releasing code packaged with installers and users will have to compile and set any given program up themselves.
I use MacPorts and Homebrew for what I need.
I've started to believe that in fact, the political hacks do know what is going on with tech. They just do this shit anyway... Because they are sick at heart.
I feel like it is too late. People still do not care and will never care... We've lost.
You are correct that they have zero understanding of computers. But what you are missing is that they are consulting "experts" who are essentially just big tech lobbyists.
Just set up an audio based check, prompting the user to make dial up modem connection sounds into the microphone. If you do it well enough, you're good and old.
unsigned char age_bracket_low = 0;
unsigned char age_bracket_high = 127;
export AGE=OLDENOUGH
Akahually at my work we used a third party authentication PAM module that uses the gecos field for username mapping.
Looks like your company shall be sacrificed for standards compliance reasons.
The best part is that this can be POSIX compliant too!
Is this the year of linux from scratch - desktop?!
Every time I login, I'm going to send a selfie to my Congress man or woman with a meme text on the top and bottom. Maybe it could just be "fuck asshole" at the top. And "I'm an adult" at the bottom.
If I have to age verify to my OS, then I will just want the human race to nuke the entire planet out of existence. Itβs better to be dead than succumbing to pedophile lawmakers.
Yes! Go get it. Exactly what needs to happen.
Hoping for the day one of the elites pushes a button, launches a nuclear, WW3 entails, and we all fucking perish. Its clear the world's gonna end, might as well save all the trouble and end it now!!!