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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
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Well, it's not "the law", it's your local law. To most people on the planet, it doesn't apply any more than for example North Korea's laws. As far as I can find, Arch Linux is not owned by a foundation or similar legal entity (i.e. which could have been located in California), but the lead developer appears to live in Germany.
I mean they kidnapped maduro and are trying him under new york law so....
So... if the law interferes with your goals, apparently it is now perfectly fine to just ignore it.
That seems to be the approach the US government is taking.
I mean yes, the dems have been breathlessly going on about how that thing that Trump's doing is illegal but nothing seems to happen. There is no opposition at all
Germany has a similar law already active
But yes, neither such laws nor the implementation into systemd is in any way positive and should be fought
Is that a single word? O_O
Kinda. In Germany, we put many words together, to form a new word.
Jugend = youth Medien = media Schutz = protection Staat = State Vertrag = contract
Thanks for the clarification ! And how do you know which word can be put together? Sorry if this question is kinda hard to answer :/ don't if it's to long and needs some complicated grammar or something like that, i'm genuinely curious !
Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatungsstelle is my favourite German word
Oh my god :/
Yes!, and german words can even get bigger!