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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

www.sambent.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago
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Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.
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    Those are also entirely optional and not having them filled in doesn’t cause other software to stop doing what the user wants.

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      The same with the birthDate field.

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        … unless someone merges a PR making it required, which is the discussion of this thread.

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          And then you can input a random date from before 1940 and forget about it…

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      (same for the birthDate field)

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        Not true. Because the stated purpose of the laws at play is to enable that to be queried so that sites can decide what is appropriate for you to see.

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          That is the purpose, but the field is implemented as optional and modifiable with admin privileges.

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            That is not the point and you know it.

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