Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO

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@spherulitic IANAL, but I would expect that GDPR only applies to data that you actually collect, not to what your software reads but does not send home

definitely a waste of time (feels like an error in drafting by the legislature tbh?), but like. a trivial waste of time

@spherulitic I don't see where AB-1043 requires any of this? beyond possibly having to query the age value in the first place (which *does* seem kinda bonkers if no applicable law requires you to actually do anything with it)
@spherulitic it is my professional *technical* opinion that the API required is quite straightforward

@recursive if I was mad about this, what good would QRTing it do

but also this is just a fact that is true; same as how you can tell how high-quality crude oil is by tasting it

@jamey get the Asenshi or Okay-Subs release!
Finished my rewatch of Little Witch Academia. If you haven't seen it, it might just be exactly what you need atop today's backdrop of [gestures broadly]. It may not have concrete ideas for how we can build a better world, but damned if it doesn't believe it's possible. 10/10.
I guess my takes here come down to:
1. of all the age verification/declaration kerfuffles going on lately, this one is the least-invasive small potatoes imaginable
2. not sure why this has to be said, but you have absolutely no right whatsoever to demand that other people die on the hill of your choice
3. given that some people are going to reasonably choose not to die on this particular hill, it's entirely reasonable for upstream infrastructure maintainers to provide a trivial API surface that downstream consumers can choose to expose or not

@wwahammy @dalias @whitequark the most obvious candidate is Valve? and I'd expect it'd be very possible to come up with cases for Canonical and perhaps Framework

the preponderance of the evidence standard simply means "more likely than not", and any competent AG is going to be able to convince a judge or jury that at least a few thousand kids have probably used Steam Decks in California

@dalias @whitequark you may well get the fine if the court rules against you and you'd been out of compliance the entire time without a preliminary injunction in place (and who knows if a court would grant one for this)

this is not risk any business should be expected to take

@dalias @whitequark like, even if you *did* intend to take this to court, the correct de-risk is clearly to implement the extremely simple required API in advance, so you can roll it out quickly and not end up in contempt if the court case doesn't go your way