Jeremy Soller 🦀These are my personal opinions about the operating system age bracket law passed in California (and coming to Colorado): https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/1rfqyf8/comment/o7q34wu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
joostruis@soller So distros should implement this in the installer, e.g. Calamares. ( Not that I agree, but technically, that is what is required to be compliant )
elle@joostruis @soller it's completely unenforceable scare-ware. I would recommend hard-forking any distro attempting "compliance".
@elle @joostruis Why do you believe it to be unenforceable other than wanting it not to be?
@soller @joostruis outside of proprietary OSes, how do imagine it is enforceable? they going to force backdoors into every Linux / BSD install? you going to add this spyware into Redox?
@elle @soller Ok you completely lost me there. Backdoors? I am trying to understand the implications and what is required IF any distro wanted to implement what is asked in that bill. As I read it, and I do not personally agree with such bill, there needs to be some check in the installer asking if the user is at a certain age criteria when living in a certain area / state. Just a checkbox.
@joostruis @soller what I'm saying is how are they possibly going to verify that every distro contains a check in the installer? what about distros which don't have an installer, like source-built distros (where removing such a check would be trivial)? they would literally have to compromise, and/or control every distro maintainer. what about maintainers / distros outside their jurisdiction? it's unenforceable outside of those who wanted to do this anyway