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• Post #3198880

  Stop, if we observe their gender then we collapse the wave form into a single gender. Schrodinger’s gender.

• Post #967716

  Do you have a source on the udev thing? I have not heard of this.

• Post #955943

  So fucking true. Once you get more than a hundred systems or so it feels like something new to resolve every day. Especially when your work let’s people with no idea what they are doing have root on different servers. I have dealt with issues ranging from someone uninstalling subscription manager (RHEL) and then clearing the package cache to people replacing chronyd with ntpd for… Reasons? I guess?

• Post #949441

  Sure I can chime in here. You did actually read the post correct? Not just the title? The original poster, Jef, is talking about implementing a Unix socket or a dbus protocol similar to what apple already has. They are literally just referencing their definition for a struct. So no this will not be ID verification, it won’t ask for face scans, and it won’t necessarily send the data anywhere. The article is just using the big A word as some boogeyman to generate clicks and further rile up t...

• Post #703588

  How I understood it would be that the api could be implemented as an API contained within your os. So it would be more equivalent to comparing it to a system call like open file or allocate memory than a REST API.

• Post #703480

  This is just the slippery slope argument. The California law does not require verification. Only attestation.

• Post #615382

  … That is literally what this law does. When a parent creates the account for their child they specify the age. If the parent decides to lie or circumvent the system and it affects their child then they would be fined. Just to be clear the law itself says absolutely nothing about actually verifying the age.

• Post #615254

  I haven’t seen any devs in the linux space actually write about a real solution but my guess is likely not. Since the law specifies that users are “children”.

• Post #615175

  Are they? The law effectively only applies penalties to the parents. If you have not ready the law I highly recommend it. It is very short and says nothing about actually verifying the age of the user. It is equivalent of entering your age on steam or the “are you 18+” questions.

• Post #615003

  The point of it is actually the exact opposite. With this law the parent would set the age of their child. And if they decide to lie and their child is affected then they could be fined. The other thing it does is if a platform decides to ignore the age range of a user and it affects a child then they could be fined. But as long as they do best effort then it really only affects the parents. It also prevent platforms from requesting additional ID verification unless they have confidence that...