Age verification for the services I run? Solved. I look in my passport, verify that I am 18 years or older, look in the mirror to check that it is really me and after that I install Yet Another Service on my server to become less dependent on big tech :)

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@jwildeboer I count the birthdays I remember having… way too many :-)
@revk @jwildeboer Age check: “When was the last time you bothered to celebrate your birthday?”
@samir @revk @jwildeboer Considering the hobbies I have/had, every one. “Yep, survived that one!”
@thirstybear @revk @jwildeboer I like to celebrate my birthday by going snowboarding. Kind of like a dare. 😜

@samir @revk @jwildeboer

I'm not sure what age I am without doing some math, I'm cool.

@revk @jwildeboer As I age my memory ain't what it used to be, but on the plus side I can now count grey hairs to verify I am indeed above 18 🥲

@jwildeboer I also check the first time I started using Linux.

That was in early 2008 when I bought an eeePC online.

So I must be at least 18 years old.

I have the original linux OS on my first eeePC 701 as proof.

Works for me as an age check.

@jwildeboer ah yes, two factor authentication

@jwildeboer

what network service do you use ?

@jwildeboer I'd go so far as to say that if you are willing to put in the work to self-host, I don't care how old you are.
@jwildeboer if you have to look in your passport to verify your age, you're definitely over 30.
As a self-hoster, my solution is even easier: I just manually OCR (with my own two eyes) the scan of my ID card I have on one of my folders (which I need for some government paperwork) and bam, confirmed 😉