I’ve been keeping my head in the sand about all this because frankly, smarter people than me are already dealing with it, and if there’s a way out, they will find it.

But I chose to read this. And my major takeaway, beside the point they’re trying to make, is that the California law has taken the asinine step of redefining the word “user”.

I hate this apparent trend of legislatively redefining words to mean what is most convenient for a party, often a powerful one, acting in bad faith, and not what is commonly understood or could reasonably be understood by someone encountering the term for the first time.

May these redefiners each have an excruciatingly bad time with a bone in a “boneless” chicken wing. (In some jurisdictions, “boneless” is now legally “a style of cooking”, and not what it outwardly appears to mean.)

And when trying to use any form of technology more advanced than a spoon, may they ever receive the message “You are trying to use this device but you are not a child. To use it would make you a user and by law all users are children. Please become a child or log off.”

Don’t run URLs piped via cURL into a shell without at least reviewing the remote document first.