I undestand the community reaction... but let's say, every service you use on internet asks for your age... also the government already knows your age, meta knows it as well (or all the people attacking #systemd closed their ig account?)
The os is personal, more than an internet service, so I feel the concern, but the age api is intended to be used by a software, as soon as we use trusted software we should be fine right?
@axusss So if they already know all this then why do they need aby age verification in the first place?
Here is a good explanation of what is happening https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-March/043533.html
@owlpaste thanks for the link, I'll read this asap 🩵
Edit: I read the thread -- and I see they cite a "location" field that could be auto-calculated. Well, there is already a location field in systemd, in the same json of the birth date, but this field seems not a problem for the community.
The field can be, or not, used by the os to broadcast the age, as well as the os could implement a broadcast for the location. But why nobody is complaining about that other field?
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