It wouldn’t be easy to ban desktop Linux without inadvertently banning Linux servers and IoT devices. So we should let them walk into this quagmire and get bogged down with an impossible task, instead of capitulating at the first opportunity.
So I guess you’re saying you use “controversial” in a normative sense while I’m using it in a descriptive sense. We’re talking at slightly cross purposes. Maybe in itself this shouldn’t be controversial, but the political context in which it appears makes people worry.
I would say that if it causes a controversy then it is controversial, even if some people think it shouldn’t be.
uncontroversial
Evidently not, as shown by all the forks.
The article lists some of them.
I don’t know whether you’re right about inevitable dependencies, but surely reducing fossil fuel use to the essentials would still be a huge and worthwhile improvement? It feels like your argument is needlessly suggesting an all-or-nothing approach.
Time for a fork?
Of course, this is not only about Ubuntu, Fedora, or Linux Mint, as it would apply to all GNU/Linux distributions, desktop environments, and application hubs lke Flathub or Snap Store, which will have to comply with the upcoming law in the near future in some way, especially since similar laws have already been proposed in other US states, including New York and Colorado.
This is likely to have an impact on all Linux distros, one way or another.
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And you are expected to estimate how long the work will take, but you’re only allowed to say that it will done by tomorrow.
And the wedding date is tomorrow.
Heather Doshay, head of people at SignalFire, told the New York Times: “Nobody has patience or time for hand-holding in this new environment, where a lot of the work can be done by A.I. autonomously.”
This is how they think. It’s not smart.
Nobody who’s into vibe coding wants to talk about it. The sane people, on the other hand, are already well aware.
It doesn’t say what they’re planning to do about laws requiring age verification. It says they’re forming a group to figure that out. The problem with bad legislation is you can’t just ignore it, so they need to at least work out an approach. In itself this news is neutral, but we’ll have to see what they decide.
There must be so many people on it. If we all keep speaking our minds about ICE and their fascist leaders maybe we can keep bloating out that list.
I think a “threat” is just anyone who isn’t paying Trump enough protection money.
Personally I’d just patch it in software by coding up my own CPU cooler.
Is that a strap with a buckle holding it on?
Brazil has something similar. Other US states are working on it. And the UK, some EU countries, Australia and others are pushing for the same. This won’t be just California for long: it’s a worldwide push to make it impossible to do anything involving a computer without first disclosing your real identity to the authorities.
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/online-age-verification-a-complete-global-timeline