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.

Jokes on you, big tech, I was anthropomorphizing literally everything long before you created programs that pretend to be sentient

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to resume an argument with the coffee maker