AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

A step in the right direction…

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    “This is great news!”

    Is what I said when this was news a week ago and extremely widely posted…

  • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Ok, that’s it. Asahi project, I hope you get to the M4 chip soon, and I gotta figure out how to got Photoshop, illustrator and InDesign running on Linux. :/

    It’s been real, macOS, but if you card me, I can only say “fuck you”

      • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Sadly no. macOS (or, more specifically, NeXTSTEP) was originally based on BSD, but it has its own proprietary microkernel (Darwin), making it different enough that it is no longer considered a BSD distro, despite being fully POSIX-compliant and UNIX certified.

        It might be interesting to see if Apple attempts to slide in under that exemption anyway, but I doubt they would even try.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 days ago

      ignore the entire ecosystem of “professionals” who don’t use adobe. like maybe it’s true with your clients or whatever that you have to use adobe, but it’s not a function of you being more “professional” than other people, shove that.

      • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I don’t have to ignore them. There are those who pay me, and those who don’t. after all, I have a job to do.

        The decision is pretty simple and pretty binary

        I am still left in a pretty difficult situation, however

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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          2 days ago

          software of children

          children’s FOSS software

          Just gonna blatantly disrespect all the incredibly hard-working and brilliant people who not only use, but also develop open source tools? On Lemmy? Lol

          Dunno homie, you sure you want to run your Big Boy Pants™ solely-viable professional corpo-rental big-bux ware on a “children’s” operating system? Careful, you might not get paid!

          Sincerely glad you’re making it under current conditions in the creative field though. That’s great.

          But also it’s a small world. If your wealthy moneybags masters demand proprietary shit, that’s fine. We gotta get our bread.

          But don’t go trashing everybody else or their hard work. That’s not gonna earn you any good will here nor anywhere else.

          Anyway, there seems to be progress being made in this direction: https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-finally-got-the-adobe-cc-installers-working-on-linux-with-wine/

          Best of luck to you.

          • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            There’s always some idiot who will argue. It’s always an idiot who’s never worked in the industry, and will never work in the industry.

            You’re wrong.

            And you’re gonna die wrong. And poor, without a job in the design world.

            No matter how much you kick and scream and cry, you’re never gonna get a job unless you use Adobe products. Lie to yourself all you like, you’re just fucking wrong.

            Nobody wants your kiddie software, and no one will ever pay you unless you use the big boy stuff

            • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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              2 days ago

              If you notice, I never even argued open source vs Adobe. Use what you like.

              My argument is “Plenty of talented people, even in your industry, build FOSS that millions use. Doesn’t always have to be for profit. TL;DR: don’t be a dick.”

              You condemn open source software as “kiddie tools” and “children’s software” but the root of your thread is “plz help me run muh adobes in Linux.” It was fine. Then you started raging at hypothetical “attackers” like some cracked out bum.

              I’m just surprised even if Macs start checking IDs you wouldn’t be advocating for them as the only way to get anything useful and profitable done, since freely available software is allegedly clearly so inferior and unprofessional.

              Also I tried to help you out anyway with that link.

              Good luck, have fun, enjoy all your money you like talking about lol.

              • eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
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                2 days ago

                If you notice

                All I notice is that you keep coming back with your crybaby tantrums. I’m not even reading your comments anymore. Get the hell over yourself.

                lol

    • festus@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      The rough idea is that services like social media, apps, etc. don’t want to have to implement age verification and be held liable if they get it wrong. Instead, their preference is that the OS just tell them what age category to use and then they trust it.

      IMO setting my age once during account creation sounds 100x better than having to scan my face and ID for every online service I use, so if I have to choose between these options I actually prefer the OS one. Probably though we’ll get both - i.e. OS will want our age AND online services will expect our ID.