▲ 175 ▼ Systemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to Linux (itsfoss.com) submitted 7 months ago by other_cat@piefed.zip to c/linux@programming.dev 73 comments fedilink hide all child comments The optional birthDate field gives other projects a standardized data source for age verification compliance.
[+] oatscoop@midwest.social 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kaiyo@piefed.ca 5 points 7 months ago If, and I do stress if applications require it filled out, there are simply going to be an awful lot of epoch birthdates in their data. And frankly a lot of people, myself included, who will step up and write replacements to these applications in order to give a giant middle finger to authoritarian governments/companies as a result. It's very mild this, and as it has no 'verification', it's just a meaningless string of numbers. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kaiyo@piefed.ca 5 points 7 months ago If, and I do stress if applications require it filled out, there are simply going to be an awful lot of epoch birthdates in their data. And frankly a lot of people, myself included, who will step up and write replacements to these applications in order to give a giant middle finger to authoritarian governments/companies as a result. It's very mild this, and as it has no 'verification', it's just a meaningless string of numbers. permalink fedilink source parent