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The extent to which core linux projects are laying the groundwork for age verification is very concerning.I wonder why I'm not surprised that people like Pottering are complacent about this situation.
And it's no surprise that the core distros are complacent either, given how they've been infected by certain schools of thought...
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EnshittifAIcation
Frederic Thevenet (@fred@fthevenet.eu)
Hi software developers! Quick question, especially for those of us most keen to indulge in those sweet, sweet company provided encouraged mandated Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT subscriptions: you do remember the race to "pivot to the cloud", right? How everything had to be moved to AWS or Azure or whatnot yesterday, or we would all be left behind? And you also remember how, a few years down the line, after we'd done exactly as asked, an alarmed CFO would come down on us urging to slash those goddamn AWS bills by half, or else? All the while somehow keeping the same level of production and quality with the on-premise infra gone for good and the team "right-sized" by 10~20%? "Doing more with less", all that bullshit? How the fuck do you think this whole "let's all voluntarily deskill ourselves and set budgets on fire so a text extruder can pretend to do our job for us" thing is supposed to pan out, exactly?
fthevenet.eu (social.fthevenet.eu)
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Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954 -
So, I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don't hate it.The problem is that even the mere existence of such a thought, this “absolute salvation” of children, is tiresome. They need to tell it like it is once and for all and admit that they would like to achieve something else, period.