I said this back when windows 10 came out and "offered" Microsoft logins while also having an always-on keylogger but the government will 100% check who logs in and checks what they do on their OS. California wants to force this on Linux even (impossible lol). Stop using windows 11 for anything but your office job you retards
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@teto the law says you have to ask for age on account setup and have to have an API for applications to get the age of the current user, things that Linux already has
@teto strictly speaking the law requires age brackets which linux doesn't support but any application can just get the exact birthday of a user
@sun@shitposter.world @teto@cawfee.club why would this apply to linux? i thought it applied towards operating systems.
@lolitechengineer @sun it won't apply to Linux. It's impossible to do the Microsoft style account shit there.
@teto @lolitechengineer the /etc/passwd scheme already can hold a birthday
@sun @lolitechengineer the shit a government expects to be provided here is not a simple text file on your computer. Whatever think what you want
@teto@cawfee.club @sun@shitposter.world none of this really matters. no reasonable person would reside in california anyway. nothing of value is lost.
@lolitechengineer @sun the elites always beta test these things somewhere and then roll it out everywhere else in the west. First with social media now with operating systems
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@teto @lolitechengineer fwiw I am opposed to the bill because yeah it is the first brick in the wall but its worth saying that journalists are basically fucking stupid
@teto @lolitechengineer @sun I mean, if you really think about it, itβs impossible to implement this with any amount of reliability unless you require biometric authentication AND NOTHING ELSE (and that wonβt work because consumer level biometric shit is nowhere near reliable enough to not have a fallback).
As soon as your account has a password (or a hardware token) you can log in with, it could really be anyone using it. Even if they manage to enforce this somehow, and Microjeet accommodates, itβll likely just lead to a massive black market for age-verified MS accounts.
As soon as your account has a password (or a hardware token) you can log in with, it could really be anyone using it. Even if they manage to enforce this somehow, and Microjeet accommodates, itβll likely just lead to a massive black market for age-verified MS accounts.
@Verfassungsschmutz @teto @lolitechengineer they said the purpose is simply that application developers have a number they are obligated to trust. in fact you as an application developer are not allowed to try to derive a "real" age outside what the OS provides, so it actually prevents relying on an external service if you implement it, currently