They’d have to. It would be the only way to make the changes uniform across distros. And of course, we could always use the unmodified version.

Me, using 8 bit adders to make my own CPU because everything else is now locked down to all hell

What about distros that don’t use automated account creation (or have optional automation), like Arch for example or Gentoo? The law isn’t made to accommodate those people:

“Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.”

The odd thing is the wording that it “requires” an account holder to indicate age or DOB. As with anything *nix, there is always a workaround. There is no way to require anything of the user. There’s also no definition for “accessible interface.”

That’s my guess. These people have no clue what they’re doing.

Technically, Linux is not an operating system, just a kernel, so I’m not sure how this would be implemented.

Well you don’t “scan” a book that’s already digital.

The fact that they destroyed the books is the most reprehensible thing to me. They could have resold or donated those books to libraries. Instead, they chose the ugliest and most wasteful thing they could possibly do. Despicable.

Time to switch back to text-only browsers.

I don’t live in Germany though, so I don’t have to worry about this legislation or do anything about it 😂

There are lots of biased meta-analyses that have gained sway in popular news articles recently. There is also a neo-temperance movement that some scientists who participated in these studies are a part of. Science isn’t as unbiased or objective as many people think it is, but people who think they’re smart for “listening to the scientists” are easily deceived, because they don’t bother critically examining claims that are apparently scientific.

It’s a case of mutually assured destruction: to charge someone with impersonation, they would have to admit that they saved data that was supposed to be only for age verification and then deleted.

Agree… I’ve watched some ChatGPT interviews on YouTube, and they’ve all been more polite than any person I’ve interviewed with at any job.