I agree that it's a poorly written law, I mean it was written by politicians who don't understand what an OS is. My main point is that something baked into the OS and browser is better for a handful of reasons than most of the other 'solutions' we're seeing.
Here's the thing, open source is big business for the likes of Canonical and Red Hat. There is no need for any of this to be in the linux kernel, or even in the window system. It is a pretty trivial feature to implement as a simple add on, and those who sell Linux based OSes and support contracts will ensure that they can continue to do business in a market as large as California. The law is clearly not perfect, but it's also not awful. My understanding is that it does not mandate any kind of age verification, only age declaration. The idea is to let a porn website or similar ask the browser "Is the user 18 or older" and get a response based on an age provided when the user account was created.
If you accept that there is content on-line which small children should not access, then it follows that some type of age verification beyond "Click here only if you're old enough" is necessary. Something like this, baked into the browser and/or OS, is kind of the least bad option. When you look at the kind of AI age verification garbage some web sites and apps are starting to do, an age signal baked into the OS actually starts to look pretty good. If this gets adopted widely and sites start to take advantage of it to skip the "I'm totally old enough" button, I'll be happy to tell my OS what my birthday is... Jan 1, 1970.
This is hilarious. I work on translation software and know exactly what's wrong. They've selected a spanish voice, but not translated the content to spanish. I was playing around with these settings in our software and produced exactly this result.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I'm in a slightly different demographic, but am still really interested in the steam machine. I'd be happy building my own gaming rig, but:
Pricing out all that stuff, ordering it, building it is a lot of work, I'd want to see some benefit for that work,
After pricing it all out, maybe I look at a steam machine and decide it's a better deal.
Realistically, steam machines, consoles, and custom gaming rigs are all approximately the same hardware and the same market. If the price of the steam machine is going up, so is its competition.
“These skilled and highly trained special agents focus on a wide variety of serious crimes, like drug trafficking, child exploitation, weapons smuggling, human smuggling, financial fraud, and more.”
TLDR: They're not armed and can't arrest people.
In my opinion, it was all entirely reasonable when the US administration was an ally and a civilised democracy. It might be something we should re-evaluate for current circumstances.
I reached for the up button about five times reading this. I absolutely 100% agree. Agile, and all of it's little branches, were created by self managing teams. Each team did it differently so named what they were doing differently, we got XP, scrum, kanban, etc. Spoiler alert: it wasn't the specific flavour that led to success, it was the diverse, empowered, self managing team of mature, talented people. Get yourself a team like that and the rest will care of itself.
My only requirement for team processes is that they be mostly up to the team. Absolutely some type of structure is needed. If something isn't working for the team, they need to have agency to address that, whether it means adding, removing, or changing something.
I agree that it's a poorly written law, I mean it was written by politicians who don't understand what an OS is. My main point is that something baked into the OS and browser is better for a handful of reasons than most of the other 'solutions' we're seeing.