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  • Seancodebam@mstdn.ca
    Mar 6, 2026, 7:56 PM

    Hmm. I was just thinking and why are we letting politicians decide how software should be designed? Wouldn't it make much more sense to have a shared ID for websites than an 18+ consent for the operating system? This is a useless "API" where you might have /etc/user_age with your age consent, and no one will take this as valid age verification. It's just so the operating system can... lock out underage users??? Why are we preventing kids from using whichever operating system they prefer? My thought is, eventually I think we will just have to lock out people who don't select that they're 18+ in the installer

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  • Mar 8, 2026, 1:45 PM

    @codebam yeah and wtf how would Linux even verify age, some distros don't even have installers where they can add the option to ask your age how would that even work?

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