On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

: Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS

The Register

@ramonfincken @catsalad Servers: I run an operating system too!

Will California obey the law and inspect all the data centers in California on Jan 1st 2027? ๐Ÿค”

@gimulnautti @ramonfincken @catsalad 'We had to remove Ansible from our cloud deployment as it is fourteen years old and therefore not old enough to access GitHub.'

@thepi @gimulnautti @ramonfincken @catsalad Docker is 13 years old, Kubernetes 12 years. Now you also can't do GitOps anymore.

Oh: What age do current AI crawlers have? Just asking for a friend...

@gimulnautti @ramonfincken @catsalad
All those AI webcrawlers are going to be in a bit of a pickle...
@ramonfincken @catsalad If you think itโ€™ll stay limited to the usa, i have a bridge to sell you.
@ainmosni @ramonfincken @catsalad Well, then maybe that shithole country USA beeds to get treated like North Korea: As a pariah to the world!

@catsalad @ramonfincken Reading through this concept, Iโ€™d like to remind everybody that constantly polling a big wide honking bracket can be used to pinpoint exact details. Replying โ€œunder 13โ€ every day until today (you now reply โ€œ13-16โ€) means today is your 13th birthday. There is zero point in adding brackets when services can already determine your exact age using this method.

California needs to stop writing hopes & prayers and start writing laws which include expert guidance.

@ClickyMcTicker
At least they're not getting it straight away. Makes it harder for them.
@catsalad @ramonfincken
@catsalad @ramonfincken which means they will add it. The whole 'open source' and 'discussion' thing is a veneer over the fact that Shuttleworth is one of those people Big Mad about no more Apartheid, and super into phrenology, eugenics, and loves his pal Thiel.

@rootwyrm @catsalad @ramonfincken it is also well established that he eats his own poop and has a tattoo of heinrich himmler on his balls

i mean if you must slander why not go big

@rootwyrm
This is the wrong place to make up your own "facts" ๐Ÿ˜ก
@catsalad @ramonfincken
@grumpyoldtechie @catsalad @ramonfincken no shit, Sherlock. It's also the wrong place to show your whole ass by leaping to the defense of a lunatic billionaire.