Just put a "not for use in the state of California" disclaimer somewhere. Then automatically set every user's birthday to January 1st, 1970.

California does not make laws for the entire country or the entire world. Perhaps "Linux" should be distributed from elsewhere and offer zero compliance, from a location outside CA jurisdiction. I know there are some distros that are published from the EU for example.

Unenforceable and lacking jurisdiction.

You know why they're quiet? Because they don't answer to anybody.

Do it. See what happens with the internet when suddenly no Linux will boot without manual intervention.

Roughly 1 in 8 Americans are Californians.

We are TIRED TO BE ALL RHE WORLD ALWAYS HARRASSED BY USA 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

As is this bill is waaaay too broad. It seems the legislative body recognizes that so hopefully there will be a significantly narrower definition for what applications require age assurance. If you live in Cali call your state reps, and voice your concerns! I do like the idea of age verification via device attestation, way less invasive than uploading a pic of your ID to some chuckle-fuck 3rd party that is gonna get hacked. I would like no age verification being forced, but it looks like that is not gonna happen.

Because nobody is going to comply, it will go completely unenforced, and nothing will happen.

LOL login command line....

Error can I see your face please?
Nah! I got no camera and this is CLI.

Hmm okay, I guess.

We have no control over our government

At this point, I'm waiting for Europe to fork Linux if this happens

But why? Apart mass surveillance

And how would this be enforced?

Good luck with that, I guess California will exclusively use Windows then.

I can't imagine they'll enforce this on every flavor of Linux. Also, pretty sure it's just asking for a box where you enter your own age at installation. Nothing even verifiable. What would the penalty for not doing it even be?

All I hear is parents in politics are "too busy" to setup adult blocking on there kids devices. Witch means these parents shouldn't have kids if u can't parent and research how to do the setup for setting the age content on Apple and microsoft and android platforums. Its all a google search away but i guess it easier to make laws for developers than to be a parent ? .Well as I see it Texas blocked Pornhub like turning on a light switch ,I say we just block CA from the rest of the USA if parents can't parent or these "adults" that can't parent need to get better on their pull out game or put on a condom not my problem you can't parent ur cum pets. 

Here's the thing, open source is big business for the likes of Canonical and Red Hat. There is no need for any of this to be in the linux kernel, or even in the window system. It is a pretty trivial feature to implement as a simple add on, and those who sell Linux based OSes and support contracts will ensure that they can continue to do business in a market as large as California. The law is clearly not perfect, but it's also not awful. My understanding is that it does not mandate any kind of age verification, only age declaration. The idea is to let a porn website or similar ask the browser "Is the user 18 or older" and get a response based on an age provided when the user account was created.

If you accept that there is content on-line which small children should not access, then it follows that some type of age verification beyond "Click here only if you're old enough" is necessary. Something like this, baked into the browser and/or OS, is kind of the least bad option. When you look at the kind of AI age verification garbage some web sites and apps are starting to do, an age signal baked into the OS actually starts to look pretty good. If this gets adopted widely and sites start to take advantage of it to skip the "I'm totally old enough" button, I'll be happy to tell my OS what my birthday is... Jan 1, 1970.

First, the open source world isn't monolithic, by definition. Second, why should "the world" in general care about the plans from some unhinged regional policymakers from a country that bet on isolationism?

Everybody go change your grub.cfg to change every entry title to read "I'm over 18 and I want to run Ubuntu" or "I'm over 18 and I want to run Arch".

Then add an "I'm under 18" entry that does the "halt" Grub command.

Flathab does lowkey need an optional 18+ toggle, I was like wow linux is great they should use this in schools, then saw some sextoy applications and was like yeah that would get that shutdown and swapped with something more appropriate real quick

Honestly the whole article comes across as fearslop that Lemmy will eat up

Tension with Open Source licensing

Not really, open source licenses make sure that if you can get the app, you can get the code, they don't typically require that your application MUST be available to children.

No central authority

Having an API that covered applications can hit and verify if the user is a child or not, doesn't require a central authority, that's good.