This is all wrong to me, schools and parents should educate their kids and take interest in what they are doing online, it shouldnt be forced by the government.
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But it's not about protecting the children. It's about user tracking and control.
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Would it be possible to add a layer on top that shows you when an app requests it, and shows you a checkbox about what you want it to report? Or just block the call as not supported.
Faking it to be child (or just random with each request) until you need a higher number could mess up with advertisers and in general fingerprinting.
I think it is accessed through xdg-protal, and the usage tracking and permission etc. likely happen at that layer.
The xdg-desktop-portal project is adding an age verification portal (flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#1922) that needs a data source for the user's age. userdb already stores personal metadata (emailAddress, realName, location) so birthDate is a natural fit.
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Oof, I might have to figure out another distro that doesn't use Systemd, given that it is very common to find on most Linux distros. I wonder if I will jump into the deep end and use FreeBSD or perhaps learning NixOS to declare the banishment of Systemd from my system.
NixOS is very tightly coupled to systemd, though there are efforts to change that
I've been reading about that myself...There are people trying to build an alternative init system for NixOS, looks like that effort is a long battle. FreeBSD could be a very hit or miss prospect for me, as I'd need to confirm the hardware support before making the jump. I have a 2021 PC, my general hardware would be supported in theory...The NVIDIA and Wayland support would make or break my choice, as I don't want to use smelly X11. It's time to move on from that antiquated display server.
There's always TempleOS.
ROFL Yeah, no...I thought about it slightly.
I know this isn't the point of your comment, but you're using "jump the shark" wrong.
Gentoo and Artix are probably the most known distros with OpenRC. (I think Void too? I remember Void did things special too)
i'm a Void Linux user. Don't even know any systemd commands ;-) Or uv or ruff ;-)
uv run away
I thought about Gentoo, Artix, and Void Linux are all very hands on...There are different levels to them, as Void Linux depends on runit...I might consider learning Void in order to stay outside the reach of Systemd. Arch isn't necessarily a bad base to build on, it does make me nervous. ROFL So Void Linux is now in the running for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devuan
https://www.devuan.org/
I haven't used this, but know it exists.
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This seems to be Linux's Microslop. Not only did they add it to Systemd, they banned users on Reddit for just talking about it. I laughed when Microsoft banned users for using the term Microslop. Not so funny now, I guess.
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California.... Are we already ignoring Brazil, for example? Or the fact that the rest of the U.S., Europe, Canada, etc., are pursuing these same plans as well?
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Systemd has finally croaked. Time to remove that garbage.
It already late i think too many years gone and so big legacy depending on it
Now I am wondering how many distros will use another init after this.
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