TLDW:
Brazil is requiring OS level age verification by march 17th, 2026.
New York about to vote on a law that would “require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices, operating systems, or application stores to conduct commercially reason-able and technically feasible age assurance for users at the point of device activation.”
In order to “incentivize” age verification, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that they will ignore COPPA violations for software performing age verification.
Neither of which make OSs
You might want to look into who’s funding NixOS…
link pls
Anduril is a huge donor/sponsor of Nix Foundation and NixCon
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixcon-na-2024-is-getting-sponsored-by-anduril-what-to-do-about-it/41258/1
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/andurils-threat-is-existential/70811?page=6
https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cfbz26/should_nisos_have_accepted_the_anduril_sponsorship/
Although it seems to be a matter of debate within the Nix community as to the nature and scope of open-source software and what limitations, if any, can (or should) be imposed…
Thank you!