they're right, we should just make it so you have to verify ID in the bios
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@Hyperhidrosis I looked it up, Linux already has a birthday on accounts and a way to query it. Linux is already compliant as long as distributions offer a way to enter the birthday, which nobody currently requires.
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@Hyperhidrosis@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world
you are missing the API verification part
@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis it mandates that applications can query the current user age from how it was configured. On Linux that is already possible. The bill doesn't mandate using any off-machine API or any verification of any kind
@sun@shitposter.world @Hyperhidrosis@shitposter.world
Lunduke got it wrong then
@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis here's the bill:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
I read the entire thing
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
I read the entire thing
@Hyperhidrosis@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world @grok@bird.makeup
"1798.502. (a) With respect to a device for which account setup was completed before January 1, 2027, an operating system provider shall, before July 1, 2027, provide an accessible interface that allows an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.
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@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis @grok again: that is an API for a program to query the operating system for the birthdate you set up. Not querying an age verification service somewhere else
@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis the only thing Linux should have to change is, if you set up a non-system user account, you enter birthdate
@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis @sun lunduke being an alarmist dumbass and getting things wrong?!
@sneeden @verita84 @Hyperhidrosis I just read it again for a third time and yeah in fact it says that an application developer, in the presence of this data provided by the OS, cannot legally attempt to derive an "actual" age, it has to just use that data.
@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis they are just avoiding computer jargon "API"
@sun@shitposter.world @Hyperhidrosis@shitposter.world
It's pretty clear that they want your OS birth details verified with some central source
@verita84 @Hyperhidrosis it doesn't say or imply that anywhere at all.