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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We need more people writing laws who possess real domain knowledge. My students these days die whenever I play them "series of tubes."

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    That or for them to value and seek out subject matter experts. Unfortunately the system has largely rigged itself to make it hard or impossible for those knowledgeable to hold office even if they wanted to. That last part being huge.

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