lumpenproletariatYou guys fell for memebait
Stores the user’s birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc.
Fushuan [he/him]How is a field you can introduce used to verify anything? There’s no “verification” if you choose to put whatever you want.
Or what, do you consider the field that shows up when clicking some games on steam where you just scroll the year 40 down and click whatever, age “verification”? Cuz it isn’t.
Having a date field so that parents can define their kids’ age in for non root accounts on Linux so the system, in a potential future, automatically limits access to some stuff is useful, and yet there’s no age verification being done there, besides the parents themselves knowing that what they inputted is truthful.
fafferliciousBecause it will not be enough.
Because they will come back and say “look at this loophole”
“Think of the children” you’ll all say as you agree to give your government authority to determine what information you can or cannot access as “age appropriate” completely ignorant of what you’re handing over.
This would be fine if it was just for you, but you’re trying to give my control over my system and what I can access away from me because you’re too short-sighted to see what comes after volunteer age reporting. And when that still doesn’t save the children, which it won’t, because it is NEVER ABOUT THE FUCKING CHILDREN ITS ALWAYS ABOUT CONTROL, you’ll tell me again that it’s just another little minor infraction. It’s just a little bit more than volunteer reporting.
Afterall, won’t someone please think of the children?!
Uh. It’s your computer. Input whatever you want there, idk.
I vehemently disagree with age verification policies fyi, but we also need to recognise that this is not age “verification”. I would never truthfully surrender my personal data in my computer lmao. The name and surname fields in my pc are “fushuan” and “lmao” for God’s sake
Is there a government push to verify my name and email or is there a government push to have age verification be at the OS level?
You know what else enables actual verification? Having electricity. I know it sounds stupid and me being condescending, but I really want to drive home the idea that something being a step to potentially doing age verification doesn’t make it inherently bad. As presented, having that field also opens up the possibility for parents to be able to set a non root account for their kids and be able to control their access in an easier way.
As is, being a locally enforced data point, is something that can enable giving more control to parents without surrendering anything to governments. That’s a a positive thing that I’m sure many parents would like, being able to enable “kid mode” in the OS level for their kids, in a way where the parents are the ones with the agency to do it.
Idk, I feel like demonizing things for their potential bad future is not the best way to approach technology. Raise warnings, address immediate concerns, and put stoppers when actual issues arise. That’s how I like to operate.
And I never said it was inherently bad.
It’s the context. It’s the context. It’s the context. It’s the context.
I understand your point, I really do, it’s just that this post and the arguments presented are overly emotional and sensationalist. You can write what you wrote here instead of shout words into a post where no one that should read them will read them. You create an echo chamber and muddy facts.
I agree that maybe not the best moment, maybe in the future when your government of child fuckers changes (please don’t do the US defaultism, it’s annoying). It’s not that point I’m trying to combat, it’s the overly emotional and biased comment.
Also, maybe I write too verbose because English is not my first language, it’s not intentional, I’m not trying to win anything, I’m just trying to convey my ideas. In a less serious tone though, the fucking gall to tell me that this is not a highschool debate right after repeating a phrase 4 times xD. Sorry, had to.
Anyway I think we are in agreement, thing is useful, maybe not the best idea to implement now, it can wait a bit. Have a good day.