Carl Richell

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New Thelio Mira arriving March 17th. This is the milled steel front power button and ports bar.

@RossComputerGuy We hope to make sensible, strong arguments for excluding open source which then becomes a standard for other states. It's going to be difficult.

@carlrichell What about California?

Went to the capitol today to meet Sen Ball, Rep Paschal, Rep Ricks, and three additional Denver constituents with concerns about SB26-051's effect on open source software, privacy, and security. It was an hour and a half meeting that could have gone longer if it weren't for the building being shut down. Our concerns were heard and shared. The next step is exchanging and discussing specific language changes to the bill including an exemption for open source software.

@247TheReal That is by design and similar to the MacOS approach. Additionally, workspaces per display and overlapping windows causes a lot of code complexity we prefer to avoid.

@carlrichell Thankyou so much for the response and for the fix. I absolutely love my meerkat. I travel a lot and I can stick it in my pocket! amazing! Dual Monitor is ... weird. Hopefully this image explains. Windows do not overlap from one monitor to another. They pick one only.

@carlrichell Bro... Your Cosmic desktop has seriously messed me up man. I LOVE my Sys76 machine but I cannot work with locked desktop icons man! I need a functional dual monitor setup too. Im dying here. Update with moving icons please please please please! HELP ME!

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@aepatrakov We discussed this as well. I proposed that apps that do not require age to modify app behavior or access by some other legislation be barred from reading age brackets to better protect privacy.

@carlrichell Open source is not the only target to exclude. Please ensure that the bill is amended so that it does not require applications that have no possible use for the age bracket to ask about it.

Today, I met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill SB26-051. Sen. Ball suggested excluding open source software from the bill. This appears to be a real possibility. Amendments are expected for the CA age attestation bill. It's my hope we can move fast enough to influence excluding open source in the CA bill amendments. No illusions, it's an uphill battle, but we have an open door to advocate for the open source community.

@Deserter909 This is true; however, we need to also protect Linux app repos and the ecosystem.

@carlrichell The bill doesn't define a specific a API or protocol. If it can't be undone for open source, then maybe every single distribution (there are hundreds at this point) should write it's own entirely unique verification system, i.e. make the whole thing cumbersome and impractical.

@_alphashark_ Transparency is not possible with actual age verification (the proposed NY bill). It requires turning over personal information to a third non-open party. The transparency would be API calls that are likely documented anyway.

@carlrichell This proposal to exclude open source software misses a critical point open source can offer more transparency and security in age verification processes.

@untra I would like to see "OS Provider" more tightly defined. This is also possible.

@carlrichell What about app/os distributions from dockerhub? Can we be certain that the terms "Operating System Provider", "DEVICE" "APPLICATION" "DEVELOPER" and "Covered App Store" exclude both public and private distributions hosted from hub.docker.com ?

@Bernanacatl No, it doesn't have to do with where we're located. It's where the user is located.

@carlrichell Moving to another state to manufacture solves this State attack on citizens?

The system76 position on age attestation and verification laws: blog.system76.com/post/system76-…

@ernieJohnstn @system76 @NYSConsumer @Linux Why does 15 matter? They're just as restricted as someone that's 14.

@carlrichell @system76 @NYSConsumer @Linux In the last 3 years of high school students are 15 or older.

“With New York’s bill, liberty is lost.” Carl Richell, Founder of US-based System76, urges @NYSConsumer to reject S8102A OS-level age verification ⬇️

@WorldDomStudios @system76 @NYSConsumer Good music taste

@carlrichell @system76 @NYSConsumer We'll take our chances. If the FBI ever comes for me, it'll be for that Metallica song that I downloaded off of Napster 26 years ago, not for this.

@MaddStep @system76 @NYSConsumer Thank you for your support.

@system76 @NYSConsumer Thank you system76, we support you and understand what you're doing to protect your business! None of us are behind this either but I for one still trust you all to make the decision in best interest of the consumer!

@ernieJohnstn @system76 @NYSConsumer @Linux Yeah, I meet a lot of kids using Linux. High schools come to our factory for tours regularly.

@system76 @NYSConsumer Do we know of ANYONE under 15 that has installed any version of @Linux by themselves?! There may be a few precocious 'tweens out there, but very few.

@WorldDomStudios @system76 @NYSConsumer It doesn't have to do with where we are. It's where a user is.

@system76 @NYSConsumer Relocate your headquarters to a state that isn't doing this bullshit. Then you can keep doing whatever the fuck you want.

@TheCodeTherapy I'm fairly certain there are many more odd consequences. In one proposed bill, Garmin would have to verify the age of their watch customers at device setup.

@carlrichell I do not believe people are considering the real implications. Some are just "fuck this shit! It's annoying, and it bothers me" (and that doesn't help anyone). And I'm not even entering the debate that I, as a parent, am 100% responsible for my son's safety online.

Perhaps the most perverse consequence of age verification laws: many require advertising the age bracket of the user to the open web. Children will be known to be children even to those that would exploit that information without regard for any other "safety" law.