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Simple solution. From now on Linux distros should ship with a big message "NOT FOR USE IN CALIFORNIA".
You want to force age verification? No server in all of California will run. Period.
Ah, the Glock solution.
"My name is Microsoft, and I approved this message."
Microsoft's own servers run Linux. An in-house build IIRC named Azure Linux.
And there's nothing keeping them from adding it themselves for their own in-house use & profit.
What does that have to do with anything?
If the only server OS legally capable of running in CA is Microsoft's - be it Windows, or their particular spin of Linux - guess who's gonna sop up all that government contract money?
And why would this particular law exempt Azure Linux only and specifically?
Wow, I've really got to spell it out for you, huh? Azure Linux will not be exempt - Microsoft will add the required routines to it, and if they are the only ones to do so, then they soak up the server market in CA.
ETA: I doubt that will wind up being the case as other commercial vendors will not want to be left behind, but we were discussing the theoretics.
So you literally got mad at a made-up scenario in your head?
Please point out where I got "mad."
Yeah..... It says just that in the article. You did read the article, right? I mean you didn't just read the title and then rush in here to make a comment?
Where, pray tell? Out of curiosity I went there to check it out, and the "article" is just 3 paragraphs that just barely expand on the title. Maybe uBlock is triggering some invisible paywall there for me?
Keep scrolling there is more, mine has a odd empty ad break too
I did scroll down all the way to the comments section, and nothing.
Disabled uBlock, and sure enough, more of the article showed up.
Supposedly the age verification thing that's needed is the equivalent to a porn site verification. Just enter a birthday that's in the 1800s, and you're set. This is still a bad direction to go towards though, as it'll set precedent for future bullshit.
Exactly. Today you can enter Jan 1 1800 and it will take it. That's not the problem.
The real problem is the precedence it sets. An asinine rule gets passed and companies adhere to it, meaning they are enforcers.
Tomorrow when laws require real verification, like ID scan then they've already agreed to be the gate keeper for said asinine laws. It's harder to back out at that point.
It's all surveillance and it should be stopped.