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They’re basically minimum-viable products that by design can be used to violate the law in California when the Act goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.

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[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

What in leftist infighting hell is even happening in this comment section?

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

For some people the world is black and white, I think that law is considered bad by everyone, but for some people complaying to state regulation is a crime against humanity itself.

It is either puppies or genocide, no in-between, so adding two lines of code for json support of an age field in a systemd module warrants you to be publicly shamed, called names and probably harrassed irl.

The guy probably just wanted to be able to continue using linux at work, and without that crap he will have to go back to windows

[–] tristynalxander@mander.xyz 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It is either puppies or genocide, no in-between

puppy genocide?

Radical centrism

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Cool name for a band