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I don’t hate systemd, but age ID verification? Risks to my privacy grossly outweigh any benefit.
It’s not age verification though. It is exactly what linux should do under the hood to handle this. Just a field.
The issue is that Linux shouldn’t be making any attempts to handle this at all.
If the various governments are going to try and require this, they can make and maintain their own forks and accept all the responsibility and risk that entails. Or the businesses beholden to the laws can. We have no obligation to make this easier on them, and every reason to make it harder.
If various Linux (and Linux software/component) maintainers would hold the line, we’d be fine.
The godawful mess of what would come from all of these different groups scrambling to implement their own solutions would be the fucking point. The most effective way to manage upwards at people who don’t understand or want to listen is to make them feel pain for their shitty decisions.
I guess we’re going to find out how resilient the FOSS movement really is in the face of authoritarianism.
I have lots of pots of lukewarm water to sell to all these frogs
its attestation, not verification, and they are just putting things in place to comply with the law bc you have to. being open source does not exempt you from following the law.
also, since every proprietary platform won’t even bat an eye over this everything will soon require it to function (obviously assuming the laws pass). this means linux won’t work properly with any web-based things. this is the same issue you get whenever Wayland tries to go against what every other platform does and just breaks a bunch of apps.
It’s just a birthday field in a JSON file, you don’t even have to fill it up
