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This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @ JdeBP . For # senryu and # SlowLife tasks, see @ JdeBP . For the command-line and system tools (including # nosh and # djbwares ), specifically, see @ JdeBP .
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This is a general, but non-politics, account covering everything from computer programming to supermarket meal deals; any politics will be taken up by @ JdeBP . For # senryu and # SlowLife tasks, see @ JdeBP . For the command-line and system tools (including # nosh and # djbwares ), specifically, see @ JdeBP .
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It concerns #AlpineLinux the same as it concerns every other Linux-based operating system that has a package management utility that talks to a public WWW site.
As I said at
https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116156019252249071 and as
@RunxiYu has also said, the statute as written covers all such systems. (It's an Act now, by the way, not a Bill.) Alpine Linux has a covered application store.
Here, for example, is what 'publicly available internet website' apk as the 'software application' uses to 'facilitate the download' of the third-party rustc 'application' from the 'store' in Alpine Linux on the aforementioned #mainframes used by the aforementioned naughty 16-year-olds in #California:
https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/main/s390x/
Yes, #CaliforniaLaw as written is this expansive. Yes, the legislators did not even consider how the BSDs and Linux-based operating systems work. None of the objectors apparently even mentioned how these work.
#rust #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR #FreeSoftware #Unix
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