schnurritoFeb 28

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55723652

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification - tchncs

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Show threadtty5Feb 28

That’s going to be so much fun for the literal millions of automatically provisioned servers owned by silicon valley companies.

On a related note how do they define a computer? Will smart tvs need it? What about smart thermostats? Cars?

What about desktop PCs with no webcams?

Show threadschnurrito

Apparently, from clicking the link in the article:

(g) “Operating system provider” means a person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

But I fully agree with you that they didn’t think this through very well. Seems that nowadays, politicians see it as their jobs to destroy all the beautiful things that technology built. :(

Feb 28 at 12:24pmWeb
Show threadSternFeb 28

Hey now, dipshit politicos have existed since forever

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill

Indiana pi bill - Wikipedia

Show threadschnurritoFeb 28
That one ended up not passing, and while arguably it was more stupid, it was considerably less harmful.