However… ive read the associated analysis of the California bill that reads directly on legislative intent:
quoting he Cali Senate Judiciary Committee analysis : file:///home/jspaleta/Downloads/202520260AB1043_Senate%20Judiciary.pdf
Why are we listening to a person who tried to link a file directly from their downloads folder?
Also the original post that the article is referencing on the fedora forums is suggesting that we remove all networking support from baseline linux as some way to comply/circumvent the law.
I’m sorry, but I just can’t take anything said in that forum post seriously.
bro… wtf should i use now??
Back to Arch??
Back to Debian??
or fuck it go TempleOS…
… sssssssiiiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhhhh
I went with a Fedora distro because the Intel GPU drivers were less of a headache. Guess I must now find another distro…
I would wait and be very vocal about not wanting it in the forums and stuff first.
This isn’t decided and nothing has been added yet at the time of me writing this.
It deserves to be ridiculed and shot down through so that it never makes it through but the problem is Red Hat is an American company.
So I always knew this was going to happen to fedora. Still though, let’s see what happens.
it’s cute how you think IBM won’t comply with their biggest contract holder.
I think they will, but I will wait and see confirmation before I go scorched earth and re install another version of Linux.
I know ultimately that you are right though, but I stills expect pushback and I’m hoping all this shit just gets overturned or an exclusion made for FOSS at the very least.
At least with my Core i7-4702MQ, it worked without much of a hassle on Manjaro.
Does Fedora has a Code of Conduct? Time to update it to either be
- the meaningless “Be excellent to each other!” (as seen in any open source Elon Musk project),
- or to include “protecting diverse opinions” (which is always a code word for “protecting bigotry”) instead of throwing out bigots who often don’t even meaningfully contribute to the project,
- or to the Ten Commandments,
if they really like the taste of the boot. Maybe they could remove “woke” elements altogether for that sweet fascist-controlled US money.
Please don’t mix Bill&Ted with that asshole
Elon was who mixed Bill&Ted into his garbage products.
Youtube requires age verification for some content since many years.
Out of curiosity, who here is still browsing YT without verified age?
Who browses YT logged in with their google account and verified age?
Too bad we don’t have pool here. I would really like to see what % of people complaining about age verification here verified their age in their google account.
I’ve never verified my age for any operating system or website. I use YouTube logged out with an ad blocker
well well here we go again old friend:
sudo pacman -Syu
How bout
Why do some people just have the worst fucking ideas…and why is “some” starting to feel like “most”
Because media propaganda makes it seem as if the majority have certain views. People don’t like to be on the outside so if the media can trick people into conforming then they will try that.
happy fediverse birthday!
Oh, thanks! I hadn’t noticed actually!
Ok well I suggest Fedora Project leader get fucked. Plenty of other good distros bub.
I have a feeling that a lot of those who replied have not really read the article, that contains some nuances. I do not like the idea of age verification, but the project leader’s proposal is apparently not even official (and more like a hypothetical in a discussion thread on their forums.
Please read more than headlines, lol.
But it’s boring and won’t give you the feelingn of being right.
🤣
Dang, am I about to become an Arch user?
If youre not picky and want to use the default setups, arch install is so easy now. The script is very easy to follow and takes like 10 mins to install depending on your network speed. The only “hard” part during the install is connect to the internet. But iwctl takes care of that
It’s a lot easier to use than one would guessed it at first. Much easier, than wrestling with getting the right cmake/gcc versions every time on Debian the moment you don’t want to use not a 2+ years old version of something.
I already got BSD on a spare laptop. Granted it was freeBSD and I think I might switch to OpenBSD since the latter’s foundation is Canadian and not US based.
But yeah if they go through with this I will be uninstalling it off my gaming machine and switching to Arch 100%. I really appreciated that line about it “not being April fools” when it was introduced in their github thread.
Theres also artix which is basically arch without systemd.
For solutions that back on actually “verifying” the age by requiring credit card or government ID, those suck.
As described, this is an administrator self describing the age, which doesn’t mean much to anyone except kids of people who apply parental controls to systems their kids have access to.
Accounts already require your “full name” but we don’t consider that “full name verification”.
This proposal seems to be in the spirit of least intrusive means to let parents opt into this stuff if they want, with no ties to identity compromising third party/state “verification”.
Question is whether this sort of solution that at least gives parents some chance will satisfy the lawmakers long term. For the wave of laws now, it seems to suffice to self attest age.
Accounts already require your “full name” but we don’t consider that “full name verification”.
They don’t require anything. You can leave that empty or just put John Doe. All that is required for an account on a Linux system is a username and a password.
Well strictly speaking the full name field is always there, but a lot of people have the full name “”.
But less pedantic, perhaps require was the writing word, but same principle, put whatever you want in dob field, default to 1970 or something.
I don’t think they were referring to Linux in general, I think it was specifically talking about Fedora
I don’t think fedora has unique requirements for user info
As long as I have root, I’m as old as I wanna be.
Not if age verification is done by a digital signature from the smart card in your government issued ID.
sudo rm /bin/evil-age-verification-binaryOr if it’s done through systemd: git clone, remove the offending code, and compile.
I already skipped all these tedious steps: Void Linux with runit .
so you’re a few steps behind me then, i threw my computers in the trash and started a farm
