Artix isn't going to comply with age-gating.

https://lemmy.wtf/post/39686444

Artix isn't going to comply with age-gating. - Lemmy.wtf

Per the very first reply on their thread discussing it in their forums, which I linked directly to for the post title: > We’ll NEVER require any verification or identification from the user. However, what’s gonna happen should the attempts to age-gate the XDG portal screw over alt-init distros like Artix too? My guess is maybe they start blocking regions which force age gating like Arch Linux 32 is doing.

We’ll NEVER require any verification or identification from the user.

Cool so no passwords?

In fact Arch and Artix do not require you to make a password to install the OS (even though you probably should).

But making a password doesn’t identify you or verify anything about you, anyway.

And regardless, say you do create a password at installation (as you should). The next time you type it in, that’s really you verifying yourself.

A password is litterally the OS verifying you are who you are claiming to be.

But making a password doesn’t identify you or verify anything about you, anyway.

Neither is putting in a date of birth.

No, it is the OS verifying what you know. The OS doesn’t care if you gave your password to anyone, just that whoever is opening the PC knows the password.

Verifying who you are would be biometric verification or ID verification.

In my case I require a password and a hardware key on login. That is still not verifying that I am myself, only that I know the password, and have the hardware key. If I added fingerprint scanning then I would have the holy trifecta and only then verify who I am.

If you think about it like that none of the proposed laws verify anything, even the worst one just verified you logged into the account with credentials for someone who put their DOB in the age bracket returned by the API
And that’s why I fear what comes next now that the infrastructure has been set for sharing sensitive data like DoB. Brazil’s law already stated that self-reporting age is not sufficient.