Open source just scored a massive win against age verification laws, California is following Colorado in carving out Linux and other open source operating systems from its Digital Age Assurance Act. Plus AI cameras on school buses being repurposed for police access, a bipartisan amendment to end nationwide license plate tracking, and the open source supply chain under unprecedented attack.
A big win would be to get the law removed entirely.
Then what?!? I have to parent my child? Don’t you realize I have better things to do like doom scroll! Selfish privacy focused individual, HoW dArE yOu!!
I mean, as people say, “Don’t be good be the enemy of perfect.” or something like that. Besides not like those OSes were that good for privacy anyways.
Yes, obviously it is good they made an exception for Linux. Still, you should keep the overall goal in mind, so no one moves the goalposts. Also, I think even Windows and MacOS users deserve privacy. They don’t get much of it, but they should.
indeed. Still normal people sadly don’t care at all about privacy and of they don’t care about their privacy I can’t really do it for them. But people should get to use stuff and have privacy without doing crazy stuff, like, in ios you need to jailbreak the device to have privacy and that’s only pre ios 17 something something at the moment.
I am aware some people might be stuck with wintoes because software and mac(ncheese)os because idk but there might eventually be a workaround for it, probably not too long in the future. Probably some of those windows debloated versions or whatevs and then you could just run that on a vm. idk but im sure there will eventually be something. like you could probs even run the vm offline at one point. (depending on the software or with some effort.)
