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.
By the way, the current age verification madness is a coordinated lobbying campaign by Meta
One more reason for me to fucking hate Zuckerberg.
Add it to the pile at this point…
Zuckerberg and Thiel.
Or Zuckerberg is the ones forking the resources to comply with the wishes of the WEF and other chosen oligarchs whose God promised them OS verification thousands of years ago
Wait are they planing to fine non-age verification compliant devices?
Can someone eli5 the idea? I don’t get it, even after reading the page. But now I want one.
They’re breaking evil age verification laws on purpose as civil disobedience with cheap hardware
OK, the disobedience was the part I didn’t get. Thank you!
Insofar as part availability isn’t insurmountably impacted this also constitutes functional resistance to all manor of censorship and surveillance. If you can code, test on one of these
I can, but I probably won’t, because my backlog is full and overflowing. But it is cheap… damn.
It’s protestware.
I agree, but now I am torn because I’m protesting the US as a whole right now.
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??
Did the init war ever end? (I use shepherd btw)
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
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
What in leftist infighting hell is even happening in this comment section?
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
It is either puppies or genocide, no in-between
puppy genocide?
Radical centrism
Cool name for a band
Why can’t rest of the world just cancel California.
AB 1043 passed the California Assembly 76–0 and the Senate 38–0. Not a single legislator voted against it.
1798.503. (a) A person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per affected child for each negligent violation or not more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per affected child for each intentional violation
This device does not collect, store, or transmit the age of its user. This is intentional.
Is there any reason to believe they won’t want to make an example out of intentional violators?
They probably will, but I think the intentional violators are intending to make a spectacle out of it. I suspect California Voters will have it repealed in short order, but in the mean time the world should probably ruthlessly mock and isolate them.
I don’t know, maybe not looking stupid
In whose eyes? They have lobbyists backing them, and a general public who doesn’t know any better, or care to know.
Exposing the stupidity is a great goal, running headfirst into the “Who will think of the children!1!!” wall… not so much.
Brilliant. I’d like to see how the very uninformed legislators deal with this. They will have to publically re-argue first principles
Why though? How does this force anybody to do anything? They will fine anybody 2500$ for handing this to a kid and call it a day. Maybe even move closer to the maximum fine because it is a deliberate breaking of the law.
I think the grandparent was being sarchastic mate
Edit: at least I hope
Amazing. Where are the build instructions
Coming in Q3
Why do we need to wait three months for them to prove this works?
Here’s e.g. instructions for using a cheap screen with the base board: https://milkv.io/docs/duo/Accessories/ST7789
Brilliant! 💪
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