Ok, the PR doesn't seem terrible? The topic is touchy as hell and putting political pressure against the entire age-checking effort is absolutely necessary, but on technical grounds this implementation does the two things I'd absolutely want here: allowing the user to unilaterally set whatever value they want, including none at all, and disallowing applications from reading that value without the user's permission.

So very much a design that superficially ticks the compliance checkbox while pointedly laying out its implementation in the shape of the letters F U C K Y O U.

Mind you, loud non-compliance also has value and I'm glad some are taking that road. But we need both IMO.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

Eric Schultz (@[email protected])

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date. This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176#0b07c0cc4d49be119f65cdb2037440f56eed647a

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