Oh hell nooo!

[itsfoss@mastodon.social]

Oh hell nooo!

#linux #ageverification

[lazylaz@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss which distro?

[gumvonschweetz@mastodon.ml]

@itsfoss not Fedora... not Fedora...

[phantasus@fedi.at]

@itsfoss And months ago people here joked that what are the distros going to do? Hmm!? Adding age verification!? Ahahahahhaaha *big laughter*

[cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza]

@lazylaz @itsfoss everything with systemd apparently.

[indonische@mstdn.social]

@itsfoss headpalm be like : nooo, I had to reinstall (again).

[greatscott@social.vivaldi.net]

@itsfoss Just... Nope. The whole thing about OS age verification is simply preposterous, ludicrous and quite frankly unethical. How is it even enforceable? Madness! #Privacy #DigitalRights

[frutigeraero00@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss linux mint 🫠

[nexape@mastodon.social]

@cocaine_owlbear
They just added a possibility to implement it, if someone want to use it. They didn't implement age verification (afaik). It's not communicated very well.
@lazylaz @itsfoss

[cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza]

@nexape @lazylaz @itsfoss it's a joke.

But I don't see a huge ethical distance between implementation and making the tools for implementation, since you mentioned it.

Put it this way. If the birthDate field had been a politicalParty field, would you think there was a big difference between that and implementing OS political tracking?

[heartcode_dev@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss Not a single distro added age verification ️

[glitchghost@retro-gaiden.com]

@itsfoss this will be me if mint adds this crap

[miketestelinuxqlub@qlub.social]

@GumVonSchweetz @itsfoss Yea, finger cross, like that distro too.

[itsfoss@mastodon.social]

@lazylaz some of them