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  • Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws

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  • I'm sure someone will come up with that. Also, I think it's important that we make clear to the devs of our favourite distros that we're going to ditch their distros if they don't take a stance.

  • Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws

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  • Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws

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  • 😂 That's true! Cthulhu rules! 🐙

  • Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws

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  • 🤝

  • Systemd Introduces Birth Date Support for Upcoming Linux Desktop Age Controls

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  • If it means nothing, then why adding it?

  • Systemd preparing to comply with age verification laws

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  • There's a big difference. Name and email fields were agreed upon by the community itself because they might be useful. This is not decided by the community, it's enforced. What if the law asked for a mandatory "skin colour" field? Yeah no problem, right? let's comply, after all we can put any colour we like there.

    But we must look not just at what's happening now, we must look at what happens later. What if the next law enforces actual 3rd-party age verification? "It shouldn't be a problem for you Linux people, you already have an API in place after all".

  • Systemd preparing to comply with age verification laws

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  • Sorry but that's a stupid comment. What are you, 5 years old not to know how many countries pushed one "law without any real consequence" after another, until people suddenly wondered "how did we get in this hell"? And how many battles the people behind "software" have battled against unjust situations?

  • Systemd preparing to comply with age verification laws

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  • Another patch should be added to rename "Systemd" into "Surveillanced".

  • Ageless Linux - Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

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  • The Cudgel

    A law that the largest companies in the world already comply with, and that hundreds of small projects cannot comply with, is not a child safety law. It is a compliance moat. It raises the regulatory cost of providing an operating system just enough that only well-resourced corporations can afford to do it.

    The enforcement mechanism is the point. AB 1043 does not need to result in a single fine to achieve its purpose. The mere existence of potential liability — $7,500 per affected child, enforced at the sole discretion of the Attorney General — creates legal risk for anyone distributing an operating system without the resources to build an age verification infrastructure. Most of these projects will respond by adding a disclaimer that their software is "not intended for use in California." Some will simply stop distributing.

    The law does not need to be enforced to work. It works by existing. It works by making small developers afraid. It works because the cost of defending against even a frivolous AG action exceeds the entire annual budget of most open-source projects. You do not need to swing a cudgel to get compliance. You just need to hold it where people can see it.

    Ageless Linux exists because someone should hold it back.

    Well done! 💪👏

    We must stand united, stand our ground, protest, react, and turn the tables. The fuckers making these shitty hidden-purpose laws must be reminded that "democracy" means, literally, "the people rule". The people: we.

  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • You were perfectly right, it worked! 🥳 Thank you so much for this extremely useful advice!

  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • Actually I fear that if I tag the community, my reply might appear as a new post in the community, rather than a reply in a previous post.

    According to this source it may happen that replies from Mastodon simply don't show up.

  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • Thanks for the tip! let me try that :)

  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • Thank you for letting me know! If this was the reply you mean, then unfortunately it was from Lemmy :( I still can't see the reply I sent from Mastodon. Maybe just using the "reply" button there isn't enough?

  • This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum.

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  • [This reply is from Lemmy] I replied from Mastodon, but can't see my reply on Lemmy 🤔

  • We can follow the news directly from the source using flipboard over the fediverse

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  • Great info, cheers! 🚀

  • How do I block a community from showing up in "all"? [Solved]

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  • This helped me with another question I had. Cheers!

  • (solved) What is the best tool to mass resize all images in a directory, including sub-directories, while keeping aspect ratio?

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  • Take a look at XnView, it has batch capabilities of that kind, which you can set up through a graphical interface. Ships for linux too.

  • Where should community meta-discussions go?

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  • Good to know, thank you!

  • Where should community meta-discussions go?

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  • Cheers. It seems the best and maybe only option indeed.