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The Ageless Device: Cheap gadgets for violating the California Digital Age Assurance Act
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this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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California is adding a requirement for age verification for operating systems (or something like that) so each one of these violates that law by booting into linux.
Not just California. Several other US states are considering (or will be rolling out) similar laws, and Brazil's version has already rolled out this month.
This was the part I got. But I wondered how that would help?
Except it's not age verification and as see n by the systemd fork over this, the people hyperventilating over adding an API are making less secure systems
It's not 'hyperventilation' it's obvious fascism
ooh! ooh! Can we restart the systemd wars??
yes please! We're using OpenRC on Debian right now, it's very nice. Way less annoying than systemd.
-- Frost
I've got a huge soft spot for OpenRC, my first experience with Linux was installing Gentoo on a junker PC i'd patched together from scavenged parts in like 2007. I actually worked from a printed out version of the handbook >.<
I'm probably okay if we just Fork systemd
Did the init war ever end? (I use shepherd btw)
JFC it's "facism" to return an age bracket?
Do you know what it's going to be used for? I'll give you a hint they're not being subtle we've said it out loud