fossilesque@mander.xyz to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 hours agoOn the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. stateslists.ubuntu.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down10cross-posted to: linux@programming.dev
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkOn the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. stateslists.ubuntu.comfossilesque@mander.xyz to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: linux@programming.dev
minus-squaredb2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up34·9 hours agoA “good faith effort to comply” with a bad faith law is to pipe /dev/yes to the API.
minus-squaretidderuuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·8 hours agoAlso showing lawmakers how easy it is means even more laws down the pipeline to really make development disgusting because “it worked before, right?”
A “good faith effort to comply” with a bad faith law is to pipe /dev/yes to the API.
Also showing lawmakers how easy it is means even more laws down the pipeline to really make development disgusting because “it worked before, right?”