Not such a bad idea
Not such a bad idea
Posted Mar 12, 2026 16:06 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)In reply to: Not such a bad idea by dskoll
Parent article: California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions
> 1798.501. (b) (1) A developer shall request a signal with respect to a particular user from an operating system provider or a covered application store when the application is downloaded and launched.
So the Developer is a little daemon living inside your machine that has to do something ("request a signal") when you as a user do something ("download an application").
In all likelihood the Developer is actually asleep or busy doing actual useful work. Terry Pratchett makes jokes about machines being run by daemons, but that's not the real world. Which branch of government is tasked with ensuring legislation is actually sensible? The above is grammatically correct, but meaningless.
