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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 9 hours ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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Apparently this will include Linux...

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[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 13 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

It isn't enforceable on the personal level, but every commercial distro will need an implementation (and let's be honest, they will each create their own) to sell pre-installed or to offer service for public and private device fleets.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 2 hours ago

And non-commercial distros?

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Meh, adding an age question to adduser wouldn't be that bad, we could even replace the current room number question

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Can't wait to create all my accounts using the Unix epoch.