The extent to which core linux projects are laying the groundwork for age verification is very concerning.
I understand why some believe they are compelled to do so, and why others feel that it may be better to implement the most minimal conforming implementation in the hopes of fending off something worse.
But the line must be drawn such that no threat can obligate an OS to collect/store personal information - without that freedom, we face an uphill fight to protect general purpose computing.
I can. That means that all apps need to be able to read from my home directory
Most, yes. Typically interacting with sub directories that are easily tightened with selinux.
To be compliant with the CA law, by my understanding *every* application would need to access the birthday data.
Which then raises the next stupid question raised by this stupid legislation:
What is an application?
Does it include vi, less, and curl? All of these can be used to browse the Internet. What about image rendering software?
What if I 'sudo /usr/bin/google/chrome'?
When was root born?
The whole thing is completely dum-dum idiocy, pushed on lawmakers under the "think of the children" banner by techbros who dream of a day when all compute is rented by the minute.
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