You make it sound like a conspiracy to control our lives instead of a profit-maximization behavior. It's cheap and easy to lock you out and expensive to build things more robustly. The cost to your privacy, autonomy, etc. isn't passed on to them because typical consumers don't know or care what they're giving up. This is what regulations are for but it's all a little late for that
Providing a place to store and read data for minimal, nominal, non-invasive compliance with legislation so that people can protect themselves without harming anyone else
Things I have never said anything about:
- Giving your age to anyone
- Laws in the US
- Protecting kids
- Fingerprinting
I don't think that's a reasonable assessment of this change
Are you serious? I mean there's a lot of dumb shit in this thread but come on
That is (or is not) happening regardless of systemd involvement. This is just a place to store the value. Not having such a place in systemd would just mean it is stored in some other place. This doesn't make it significantly easier to implement age verification nor would reverting it make it significantly harder. It's just a field that may be used by people who are legally obligated to store or read that data.
Every rant about systemd is a wasted opportunity to yell at someone who deserves it, honestly. Focus on the people pushing age verification laws or doing age verification.
Unless your system is for you and your kid, for example
Games have had graphics settings for quite some time
It's an open source project. You go ahead and step up.
Nobody should be getting shit for having a poor reaction to antagonistic behavior regarding their volunteer work.
Peepo is less likely to be fascist than clown pepe last I checked but I don't consider myself a fascist frog expert
Watched this episode for the first time yesterday, yippee
"Only" one planet (that was all it took)
Putting this down under "likely LLM generated science fiction" for now