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The proposed California law requiring age verification on all OSs is just silly. How do you enforce a border on a kernel?
Unless they mandate locked bootloaders at the OEM level, which is a direct attack on #RightToRepair , they can't stop anyone from installing a #Linux distro. It is a move that only hurts law abiding users while being trivial for anyone with a thumb drive to bypass.
Privacy is a right, not a verified privilege.
#GNULinux #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #California #TechPolicy
@terminaltilt "Law abiding users". This wording, combined with the given context, implies that Linux users are criminals.
Microsoft now uses AI to write a lot of code, so I would argue that Microsoft - and Microsoft Windows users - are the criminals:
This is because AI-based code will be using copyrighted code used as training data, some of which may be under the GNU GPL which prohibits use inside a proprietary program.
Proprietary software is morally criminal anyway.
Fair point. My use of "law-abiding" was meant to highlight how these laws only burden the average person while doing nothing to stop the technically literate.
