▲ 59 ▼ California makes Linux, OSS software exempt from age verification law. (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 4 days ago by displaced_city_mouse@midwest.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml 31 comments fedilink hide all child comments Let's hope other states follow suit...
[–] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (1 child) Ehhh, honestly I'm thinking it's more likely they'll block you. That's how these things tend to go in this age. Kind of like how more and more of the Internet just outright blocks vpns. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 child) This is my growing experience of using GrapheneOS. Mostly everything works just fine. But certain apps don't, because they've made a choice to use Play store integrity. And there are more and more of them, including the UK government ID app. So I can't use my phone to verify my identity because I use a version of Android that's more secure than Google's. And yeah, I can see it going this way with Linux. If you can't be verified using macOS, Windows, or ChromeOS (or whatever the new thing is) tools, then you become a second class digital citizen. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 point 4 days ago (2 children) And that's why we need to build better and better tools for everyone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] gandalfthewhite@lemmy.ml 1 point 4 days ago It's very easy, a lot of these huge platforms are just corporate adware and military/intelligence propaganda machines, creating something real with real people will blow it out of the water. permalink fedilink source parent [–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 point 4 days ago And why we need people who can hammer it home to our political classes that it's vitally important not to be stuck in an Apple/Google/Microsoft trap. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 child) This is my growing experience of using GrapheneOS. Mostly everything works just fine. But certain apps don't, because they've made a choice to use Play store integrity. And there are more and more of them, including the UK government ID app. So I can't use my phone to verify my identity because I use a version of Android that's more secure than Google's. And yeah, I can see it going this way with Linux. If you can't be verified using macOS, Windows, or ChromeOS (or whatever the new thing is) tools, then you become a second class digital citizen. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 point 4 days ago (2 children) And that's why we need to build better and better tools for everyone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] gandalfthewhite@lemmy.ml 1 point 4 days ago It's very easy, a lot of these huge platforms are just corporate adware and military/intelligence propaganda machines, creating something real with real people will blow it out of the water. permalink fedilink source parent [–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 point 4 days ago And why we need people who can hammer it home to our political classes that it's vitally important not to be stuck in an Apple/Google/Microsoft trap. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 point 4 days ago (2 children) And that's why we need to build better and better tools for everyone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] gandalfthewhite@lemmy.ml 1 point 4 days ago It's very easy, a lot of these huge platforms are just corporate adware and military/intelligence propaganda machines, creating something real with real people will blow it out of the water. permalink fedilink source parent [–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 point 4 days ago And why we need people who can hammer it home to our political classes that it's vitally important not to be stuck in an Apple/Google/Microsoft trap. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gandalfthewhite@lemmy.ml 1 point 4 days ago It's very easy, a lot of these huge platforms are just corporate adware and military/intelligence propaganda machines, creating something real with real people will blow it out of the water. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 point 4 days ago And why we need people who can hammer it home to our political classes that it's vitally important not to be stuck in an Apple/Google/Microsoft trap. permalink fedilink source parent