Erin 💽✨Everyone seemingly getting mad about systemd adding a completely optional date of birth field to user records that is, in reality, only ever going to be filled in on the machines of children administered by parents who want such restrictions enforced, perhaps on machines administered by schools, or by people who want their computer to wish them a happy birthday.
There’s a lot that can be said about the ineffectiveness of age gates or the problems of rating systems but those are better directed at legislators rather than open source maintainers working to ensure that distros are in legal compliance with flawed legislation by the deadline, especially with regards to laws like New York’s with serious privacy issues and that are pretty much unworkable by any open source projects
And also a lot to think about in terms of why educating parents is ineffective and the nature of the societal problems motivating these laws and how to address them in the real world with actual parents
infinite love â´³