If they want to do business in the US then it follows that they would need to follow us law when conducting that business. It is the same reason that valve has to follow California law despite not being headquartered in California.

If that weren’t the case then businesses would just move to international waters and claim to only need to follow maritime law.

I would highly recommend actually reading the full text of the bill. It is a lot more than what is in the body of the post.

It is not clear to me whether a site would need to be hosted in the US to fall under this law or if they would just need to be accessible in the US.

I would post the definitions but there are 7 titles under this law and 5 of them each have their own definition.

Edit: just to be clear. I hate this law too. ID requirements will kill many platforms or people will use vpns to circumvent.

gofuckyour.self

Sounds pretty funny. Can’t wait to see what is hosted there.

I would guess either 50-50 it is a meme site or pron. No in between.

I have used linux the better part of a decade but have never really followed kernel development.

What does it mean for the kernel to be “monolithic”? What would need to change in the kernel for it to no longer be considered “monolithic”?

That’s what I mean by “if it were possible”

Genuine question. Would you all be fine if instead they required that printers add some sort of invisible tracking data? Similar to how 2d printers do.

I know that would be difficult to do with this tech but if it were possible.

50% seems very low. They created these companies by scraping and pirating information.

50% means that they just need to fool a few people to get what they want. Imo it should be more like 90% public with a requirement that all services must be provided for free.

Systemd’s change is inconsequential. If you really care then you should also fight to remove full name and address from user db.

Also there are still other jurisdictions that have these sorts of laws.

They are talking about how steamos might still be included. Due to the proprietary portions. I’d assume android would fall under that as well.

Read the article. The amendment says nothing about Linux. It talks about open source where the user has a license to modify and redistribute. So unless Google makes android fully open source they will still be included.

Yes, I know AOSP is open source. But they are also talking about how steam os wouldn’t be exempt despite it being arch based. Due to the proprietary portions.

That’s the thing. Linux isn’t special. It is open source oses and applications where you have license to modify and redistribute.

Probably because the law makers realized how hard this would be to enforce for open source.

This would also mean that applications that are just source available would not get this exemption since the user is not typically allowed to redistribute.

It would still affect Apple, Microsoft, and Google.

The California law does not require verification. Only attestation.

Ooohh. Language preference per library would be so nice. Not having to fuck with languages on anime would be so convenient.

There is no way in hell I would vote for Newsom. I will vote literally anyone else (not that my vote matters much since I am in Cali).

This exactly. My company has a disclaimer everytime you log into a system to tell you as much. “there is not expectation of privacy”.

We don’t have the same level of keylogging and webcams access that they are talking about here. But I think most people would be surprised at the amount that we can see.

Yea. I have tried a few. But they either don’t work for me. Or the come down at the end of the day leaves me unable to do anything.

I don’t think I would even trust an open source version that I fully control. Either it would be a pain in the ass to maintain it or it would eventually have some major vuln discovered and lead to people being hacked. Too risky.

I yearn to go back to the days when a 2 minute lapse in focus/interest didn’t subconsciously send me reaching for my phone.

Can’t wait for adverts for the ass blaster 9000® to be beamed directly into my frontal lobe without my consent.