Aral Balkan19h ago

RE: https://toot.cafe/@soapdog/116290204253136215

“So it failed age verification and locked me out of many features. Bear in mind, I am 45 years old. I have an Apple account for 25 years, the age of my personal account alone should already verify my age.

Credit cards are not documents. Many people don’t have them. Apple don’t provide any other way to verify your age because they are a stupid American company with American values in which you’re just as human as your credit score.

Age verification is a scam, but checking it with a credit card is even worse.”

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@aral Ageless Linux is now out wirh scripts to strip out incoming age verificarion support from many Linux distros. For now they set the new age field in systemd's userdb to the epoch which is 1/1/1970 or to null when used in flagrant mode.

They are also setting up a full Debian based Linux distro, which will be Debian with any age verification that gets added stripped out.

Then for phones there's Graphene, which is publicly refusing to comply.

Presumably age-verification demanding sites will break in the future but I'd just as soon block them at the firewall anyway.

https://agelesslinux.org/

Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

Mar 25 at 5:39pmWeb