California and Colorado legislated that Linux distributions, being free and open-source, are exempt from the age verification in operating systems, unless they are proprietary like SteamOS (and Windows).

[harmoniousanger@zeroes.ca]

@chefx @davidculley Yes, you did miss something.

ChefExperte (@chefx@defcon.social)

@davidculley@hachyderm.io They just added a birthDate field to userdb. So it is now possible to add a birth date to user accounts on systems using systemd. And you call this fascism? Did I miss something?

DEF CON Social (defcon.social)

There's already a mechanism for that in linux, and it's called groups. Groups as a concept predate unix; support was added around v4.

So go and re-read the original post to find out why you were reasonably blocked by the OP.

[sortius@mastodon.social]

@davidculley gotta love how the dudes with no kids both don't understand how kids work, and care deeply for their "safety".

My kids are already getting around the under-16's ban here in Australia, no problems, and no help from me.

[stupeflo@pipou.academy]

@davidculley
SteamOS isn't proprietary.

[q@glauca.space]

@drwho @davidculley what drugs are they on? I want to avoid those at any cost…

[k8ie@toot.mcld.eu]

@jaystephens @davidculley

[amlor@fux.am]

@davidculley @jaystephens check out void linux also

[luperteverett@mastodon.social]

@davidculley No, they won't. The useful bootlicker idiot named Dylan M. Taylor have already done his part.

[jaystephens@mastodon.social]

@k8ie @davidculley

[chefx@defcon.social]

@harmoniousanger @davidculley You mind explaining how groups solve that problem?

[chefx@defcon.social]

@sortius @davidculley I don't know if that's news to you, but I was a child as well, so I know that. These tools cannot replace good parenting, but they can help. Is that too complicated for you?

[chefx@defcon.social]

@LukefromDC @davidculley You mean like every single person who takes a look at the public source code? Is that the new conspiracy theory ?

[harib_murshidi@mastodon.social]

@sortius @davidculley I basically don't want 'the govt' to tell me how to do parenting, esp after the release of Epstein Files (which pretty much named politicians from all over the world) so facial verification, digital ids are a 'very bad idea' !

This whole moral policing business happening worldwide is pretty much an indicator that this is 'bad business'

[chefx@defcon.social]

@harmoniousanger @davidculley Also, is "someone has a different opinion so I close my eyes and go 'lalala'" the new "reasonable"?

[sortius@mastodon.social]

@harib_murshidi @davidculley the whole thing is outsourcing parenting to the government. Parents have all the tools they need to keep their kids safe, both in respect to parenting tools and technical tools.

I went a bit overboard, maybe, with my SDN running DPI, but I haven't ever had to really use it with the kids. I talk to them, explain what's safe, what isn't, and they make mistakes, like all kids need to, but we can always talk about it

[davidculley@hachyderm.io]

@tomjennings @LukefromDC Yes, "compress the kill cycle". They released the news in 2024 and last month, what you remember, they were in the news for trying to scrub that information from the internet. But of course the internet never forgets.

[harib_murshidi@mastodon.social]

@sortius @davidculley

I read this on the internet that the govt/state has no right to spy on my kids; but I as a parent can 'spy' on my kids (which is technically not even spying) i.e. keeping tabs on their online activities, social media usage and screen time etc.

We have gone from telling kids to not share anything from their RL on the internet to eradicating all kinds of anonymity when the likes of social media moguls like Zuckerberg wanting people to 'put their real names on facebook'

[l@gts.void.dog]

@davidculley
1. holy shit ive been howling about the sysd monopoly being a dogshit idea since '22 and NOW it hits. who would have seen this coming!! one init system didnt seem like such a bad idea back then!! especially ESPECIALLY when it's a microslop employee that's spearheading development!! /s
2. don't think they'll remove it, the code is here and is used by steamos and other proprioware. we'll be lucky if we get it as a module or whatever and it isnt rooted into the Poettering Monolith of systemDoom

[davidculley@hachyderm.io]

Capitalism has destroyed the world and our future, possibly even the survival of our species.

The average Joe/Jane who still flies by airplane hasn't understood this yet. *Really* understood. But they will eventually, and then there will be riots. After even the so-called "middle class" loses its privileges and lives precariously. (There are only two classes: Those who have to work for money, and those who don't.)

Knowing anything about humanity, the Western "middle class" sadly won't do shit as long as it's only the Western "lower class" and the Global South that are living in precariousness. Change for the better will happen only after the Western "middle class" lives in precariousness too. They first need to burn their hands on the hot stove too.

That's what the capitalists are preparing for, by implementing fascism before the population becomes too unruly. Capitalists don't like people organizing against them in anonymity, planning how to end capitalism. The elite wants to know exactly who everyone is, and be able to control what you can post on the internet.

They get their foot into the door with "age verification", by dressing it as "protection of the children".

And the useful idiots are like, "It's only a column in a database." "I like it if it helps hiding porn from my child."

But folks are naive gullible idiots if they think it stops there, with their birth date. This needs to be nipped in the bud.

[davidculley@hachyderm.io]

@hypostase The bad guys seldom think of themselves as bad. They often pursue a (in their view) noble end that justifies the means. And genuineley don't understand the resistance against them.

[millie@infosec.exchange]

@davidculley detect-fash is aging like fine wine