nixCraft 🐧Ubuntu Linux is planning to comply with Age Verification law.
On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-March/043510.html
Sassinake!@nixCraft will this reach downstream Mint?
or upstream Debian (does it still exist?)
Derpi 
@Sassinake @nixCraft Seeing as if they don't they face $7500 per violation, their hands are tied at this point. People are blaming the developers when they cannot do anything about it. These walking dinosaurs need to be removed from power and replaced with people who actually understand technology and why this is a terrible idea.
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫@DerpDerpington @Sassinake @nixCraft
Canonical is a company doing business in the US. It can be coerced. Sucks to be them.
But "developers" is anyone anywhere in the world with source code and a C compiler. They cannot.
@petealexharris @Sassinake @nixCraft If they want to continue to be allowed in the US and soon the EU, they absolutely will.
@DerpDerpington @Sassinake @nixCraft
Allowed (or not) how? I don't care if I'm allowed in the US. Even if I did, I could compile a patched kernel module and nobody would know. All this is doing is giving people who post "become ungovernable" memes an easy warm-up exercise to start *meaning* it.
Allowed (or not) how? I don't care if I'm allowed in the US. Even if I did, I could compile a patched kernel module and nobody would know. All this is doing is giving people who post "become ungovernable" memes an easy warm-up exercise to start *meaning* it.
Maya@petealexharris @DerpDerpington @Sassinake @nixCraft Exactly. I'd be willing to bet money that if the legally mandated spyware at OS level becomes a thing, which it won't, there'll be easy to use scripts for recompiling your favorite distro without it available overnight. Probably thousands of them.
@petealexharris @Sassinake @nixCraft With that you would be fine. However if people want to use a pre built OS that has a certain amount of users, then they will be forced to do it. I myself am gonna use tails with tor. Knowing tails, they are gonna tell them to eat shit.
Privacy is a fucking HUMAN RIGHT, and includes anonymity.
@Sassinake @nixCraft I agree 100%, and we need more people to advocate for it. We are literally becoming what China is at this point. Nobody is going to be able to do anything without them knowing. Next they go for physical money.