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  • potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.spacetoCachyOS@sopuli.xyz•CachyOS: Gaming- Distribution erhält keine Altersverifikation (CachyOS: Gaming distribution does not receive age verification)
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    3 days ago

    The translated (by the mozilla translation) article:

    article

    Various new laws in the U.S., such as the “Assembly Bill 1043” in California, as well as the “Senate Bill 26-051” in Colorado and the “Senate Bill S8102A” in New York, could purely theoretically oblige providers of operating systems to verify the age of users. Since CachyOS is a free open source project without a company headquarters in the USA, the feasibility alone is not given. In the forum of the gaming distribution, a moderator has now commented on the topic.

    CachyOS is based in Germany, with founders in Germany and Russia. Laws on age verification do not exist there.

So the bottom line is: CachyOS does nothing in terms of age verification.

CachyOS uses the SystemD framework. There are no plans to stop using it or use an alternative. CachyOS does not implement anything to do with age verification via SystemD. SystemD does not even have age verification.

So the bottom line is: there is no age verification with SystemD.

— Moderator in the forum of CachyOS

    The concern of the Linux community is that free developers could be legally prosecuted if they offer their software for download in these US states without including the corresponding queries. However, since CachyOS is a free project from Germany and has no headquarters in the USA, the developers currently see no legal basis or necessity to implement these US regulations. In the official Discussion forum Several threads have already had to be closed due to repeated inquiries about the topic.

    Age verification:

    CachyOS is not located in areas where this is an issue.
    CachyOS is not taking any steps in this regard.

SystemD:

    CachyOS uses SystemD.
    If you do not want to use SystemD, find a different distribution.

STOP asking for these two things.
STOP attacking people for these two things.
STOP being radical on these two issues.

Should anything ever change in these two things, there will be a corresponding announcement.

— Moderator in the forum of CachyOS

    The discussions have recently increased, since in the system, an Init system, which also includes CachyOS, an optional field called birthDate in the JSON structure of the user database (Userb) was recorded. This amendment (Pull Request #40954) serves as the technical foundation for the aforementioned laws, but does not itself carry out any active testing. The development team at Garuda Linux is also involved Officially Expressed.

    Garuda Linux will not introduce age verification measures because the jurisdictions to which Garuda Linux is subject do not have laws requiring an age check.

— Garuda Linux

    An enforceability of the laws also on open source projects, especially outside the USA, is considered highly unlikely by experts and developers. Many distributions have also already confirmed that they will not include age verification.

    The editorial team of PCGH has once again asked Peter Jung, the chief developer of CachyOS, for a detailed statement on this topic and will update this report accordingly.

  • potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.spacetoWorld News@lemmy.ml•West refuses to condemn slavery at UN
    12·
    6 days ago

    Idk, i think it should have reparations, like, if for hundreds of years, robbing, killing, enforcing servitude of tens of millions of people for the enrichment of a few countries should make these countries pay. It gave these countries the backbone to todays “welfare states”, the industrial revolution was kickstarted on the cotton and sugar fields that these enslaved people worked, etc, etc, etc.

    I don’t care about the legality, the wording, the whatever, it seems pretty clear to me that this should happen, and them giving this response shows that basically they don’t care and never cared.

  • potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.spacetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•To what extent is the standard structural definition of racism structurally racist?
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    14 days ago

    This seems a very simplistic way of seeing racism. Like, to me, complex human interactions and systems cannot be simplified in this manner:

    Some are expressed as formulas (priviledge+power or prejutice+power) with the key concept being power.

    There’s a lot more nuance than this. If you’re thinking about structural racism, the legal, the opportunity given, segregational, educational and societal (even if not official) factors of racism, that’s what I think it is, the amalgamation of various factors into the added institution of racism, as they are at the structural foundation of our modern society, not just a guy being racist, not just priviledge, but the educational access for black people or laws implicitly made to keep latinos out of legality (some examples).

    It’s not that simple. Check this and this as they’re a good start.

    And, to the question, in the definition I just gave, the question:

    To what extent is the standard structural definition of racism structurally racist?

    Doesn’t even make sense, as describing the ways racism prevail in society is not racist, because the definition of racism is a lot different than this.