I see so many people making a huge deal out of linux stuff adding support for the california age thing, and I'm like. you know basically every online service has been required to ask for your age since 1998? this is literally just "at account creation, the device owner can set an age field. to whatever they want. and then apps can query that instead of asking themselves."
you can set it to the unix epoch if you want
@rcombs yeah i really don't get it
@rcombs everyone knows young people will lie about their age. this enables them to lie about their age very easily. why the fuck would you put up a fuss about it
@whitequark @rcombs I still remember the advice on the Internet was never share your real name, age, and where you live.

@ladytel @rcombs people can now one-shot you if you don't blur your wifi network name in every single screenshot without fault :(

ship's kind of sailed now that we have these gigantic geolocated machine identifier databases

@whitequark @rcombs yeah it's a real shame :/