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Fedora Project Leader Suggests Linux Distros Could Adopt Apple's Age Verification API

However.. ive read the associated analysis of the California bill that reads directly on legislative intent:

quoting he Cali Senate Judiciary Committee analysis : file:///home/jspaleta/Downloads/202520260AB1043_Senate%20Judiciary.pdf

Why are we listening to a person who tried to link a file directly from their downloads folder?

Also the original post that the article is referencing on the fedora forums is suggesting that we remove all networking support from baseline linux as some way to comply/circumvent the law.

I'm sorry, but I just can't take anything said in that forum post seriously.

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Painful Sideloading

I can get behind a delay to enable side loading and the warning screens are nothing to me since I can just click past them. Though the delay should be more like 30-60 minutes at the most.

The real problem is requiring devs (even outside of the play store) to identify themselves. That is ridiculous and does absolutely nothing to secure the device for the user. (It only secures it under Google for their interests)

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How to find reason why linux froze or crashed ?

There are a couple of things you can do. If it is frozen then try pressing ctrl+alt+1/2/3/4 to swith to a different terminal this will let you either restart your DE or reboot the system safely.

As far as debugging it I would typically start with looking at journal logs journalctl -b-1 should show you logs from the last boot.

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New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic

Someone please correct me if I am wrong. The article does not say where this is happening.

AFAIK these might be illegal in the US but only by technicality since we have laws against flashing lights. Especially ones that could be mistaken for police lights. (yes I know they are box trucks not police cars. But while you are driving and just see the lights in your mirrors you might mistake it for police).

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I am going to put in little shop of horrors since it is a musical. And I really would not consider it horror.

For those of you that don't know there are actually 2 versions of this movie. The original release version where the plants lose and the ORIGINAL test audience version where the plants win.

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Disk space counted twice on root folder?

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This might help in the future in case you setup a remote mount for backups in the future. Look into using systemd's automount feature. If the mount suddenly fails then it will instead create an unwritable directory in its place. This prevents your rsync from erroneously writing data to your root partition instead.

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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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You are right that operating system is not defined. But the definition of operating system provider is this: "(g) “Operating system provider” means a person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device." (emphasis mine)

Which should clearly exclude embedded devices.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

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I was wrong about robots.txt

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I feel like most casual users would not make the connection of "crawlers" to link previews that they talk about it the article.

Sure, if you understand that robots.txt includes all robots then sure. But that is not how general news media has been talking about robots.txt.

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I'm not sure how many people know this but there is good reason why (at least on android) giving Bluetooth permissions also requires location permissions.

The basic concept is that given enough Bluetooth data an app can pinpoint your location accurately anyways. So the android devs decided that they would just require any app that wanted Bluetooth data would also need to require access to location. That way users would be indirectly informed of the dangers.

Why not just a pop-up to inform of the danger? Probably because most users will click past that warning and not read it.