Amoxtli@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoCalifornia introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setupwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square56linkfedilinkarrow-up1257arrow-down16
arrow-up1251arrow-down1external-linkCalifornia introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setupwww.tomshardware.comAmoxtli@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square56linkfedilink
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67arrow-down3·11 hours agoHow will this affect embedded os like freertos or vxworks? There are lightbulbs that have operating systems these days, am I going to have to show ID to turn on my light?
minus-squareAttacker94@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoIt all but makes the law useless, but the law characterizes viable age verification as being self reported, so the Id wouldn’t be necessary.
minus-squarethemurphy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·7 hours agoMy guess would be these OS’s just wont do it and stop doing business in that state. Lucky for you, you can just download them anyway. My guess is also that these lawmakers dont care nor considered other OS’s than Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android.
minus-squarepulsewidth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·9 hours agoAs those are not general purpose computing devices, and additionally have no app store - no, and no. From the law text: © “Application” means a software application that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device that can access a covered application store or download an application.
minus-squaredondelelcaro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoThe law defines a public webpage as a covered app store. Anything that can run doom and view a webpage is potentially covered. It’s way overbroad and unclear how it could be implemented, and likely to be challenged in court if it even gets that far.
How will this affect embedded os like freertos or vxworks? There are lightbulbs that have operating systems these days, am I going to have to show ID to turn on my light?
It all but makes the law useless, but the law characterizes viable age verification as being self reported, so the Id wouldn’t be necessary.
My guess would be these OS’s just wont do it and stop doing business in that state.
Lucky for you, you can just download them anyway.
My guess is also that these lawmakers dont care nor considered other OS’s than Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android.
As those are not general purpose computing devices, and additionally have no app store - no, and no.
From the law text:
The law defines a public webpage as a covered app store. Anything that can run doom and view a webpage is potentially covered.
It’s way overbroad and unclear how it could be implemented, and likely to be challenged in court if it even gets that far.