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Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism (itsfoss.com)
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I draw the line at when a third party internet-connected service is doing validation of ID. Let’s be honest though, I strongly believe such a thing isn’t possible on a FOSS operating system environment unless they could control what was bootable on the device at a firmware level, enforce signatures to ensure that you couldn’t boot something unrestricted, remove the ability to be root, and block LD_PRELOAD so signals couldn’t be faked. There’s probably more ways to circumvent that.

What I’m trying to say is real ID verification on Linux would be awfully hard to implement, and I guarantee you, nobody would put up with it. They’d fork to a version that doesn’t have it immediately as a protest. Right now, we’re considering implementing something akin to the date pickers that were ubiquitous when signing up for internet services in the early 2000s where it’s just an honor system.

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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stop letting the fascists frame the narrative.

We don't need local values at all. Computer should not be broadcasting personal identifiable info to every single website and cookie out there, regardless if it lets you lie or not. That's fucking idiotic.

If you want to do what these things claim to be for, and protect children, you make websites contain a flag for content rating and local devices do the filtering.

Not the other way around, which is only useful for tracking. Most websites aren't going to bother to follow through on it, anyway, why make it even more difficult and unlikely they do so?

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Computer should not be broadcasting personal identifiable info to every single website and cookie out there, regardless if it lets you lie or not.

Good thing that's not what you was proposed.

You're clearly too enraged to actually read the law though, so reality doesn't matter to you.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Having a meeting sign pointing out that this user is a child is not much better. Literal friends of Epstein are involved in backing this idiotic law. That should tell you something.