If you can feel a very small tinge of existential horror when you read the words “try to”, congratulations, you’re a true *nix devotee.

If legislators get grumpy about this, just gently thwap them with your handy copy of The Unix Haters Handbook and tell them you’re working as hard as you can under the circumstances.

  • Vocalize8711@lemmy.world
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    By definition of this new law, is Linux an OS? It is technically just the kernel. At what layer of the software stack does the responsibility of age verification lie at?

    • thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      22 hours ago

      Linux is the kernel, GNU is the operating system, make demands to them
      GNU is only a component of the GNU/Linux system, make demands to distributors
      But this is a distribution of Linux, make demands to Linux
      But Linux is the kernel…

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        Nobody in the government and few people in tech are smart enough to make this distinction.

        Kinda sad how the world is run by idiots.