I don’t think the title is correct? All OS must have age profiles that external sources can query. There’s nothing explicit that checks the age itself in the law?

Are things like calculators excluded because they don't have proper app stores?

They should just outsource these types of things to our ethics API

Next they'll try to ban sexps without age verification.

Why can't we have normal politicians anymore, anywhere on the spectrum ? They're all racing for stupidity, it's simply terrifying.

Since Linux is a kernel, not an operating system, it's unaffected by this law.

Feels like they're trying to implement a new wide-reaching protocol/spec by requiring it by law first, then expecting someone to magically develop something, and god forbid it's a different standard than anyone else's.

By next January there will be 30 different methods of age input signalling between OS and application. And then by 2030 we might have the top 3 adopted as established defacto standards.

somewhat related-ish https://xkcd.com/927/ :)

Not sure if California is EU-lite or it has surpassed them, it sucks sometimes here, they are on a path to regulate and ruin everything.

lol. The best kind of legislation (rated by entertainment value) is always written by people with no real understanding of the subject being governed.