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.
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.
You can even not use it if you live in the US. There’s nothing that enforces you put a date in there (and nothing to verify if it’s correct, which is why people say it’s not age verification).
For now. Let’s not pretend this doesn’t lay groundwork for goverment to require id verification.
Sure, but the slippery slope fallacy is still a fallacy. If it suddenly does become required, fork the thing. Or better yet: focus your attention on the shitty lawmakers who are pushing for this.
Sure, I dont have a problem with them following the law, all the blame falls squarely on the law makers. That being said I dont think it’s wrong to call out where I believe this is intended to lead. If you waste your time defending stupid regulations we’ll only be divided when it gets worse.
were we not dealing with fascism i would not mind this, i’d think it was just part of a functional digital ID environment. that’s part of the problem. is it that i need to reconceptualize the digital ID or idk.
Easy to flag. Then Lennart Poettering’s startup van deploy the ID tech to comply with age verification laws.
As long as I’m root in Linux there’s nothing that can be done about me doing whatever I want with that field. I’ll be born in 420-6-9, name “blaze” surname “it”.
That’s the difference between windows and Linux. In Linux I’m truly root, the I do control everything in it, sometimes to my detriment, but definitely in my benefit in these occasions.
Also, anything the Spanish government wants to protect, is as easy as forcing us to use a free to emit electronic certificate that personally identifies us, which is already used to enter public services webpages in a secure way.
That age thing is actually way more useful that proper bullshit age verification, because parents, actual parents, can set a user account for their kids on the PC, and then that field would actually be valuable to limit access to tools. You know, instead of surrendering power to the government, which this tool doesn’t do, you would be giving power to parents to be proactive in protecting their kids.
Isn’t that one of the most prominent talking points against mas surveillance based kid protection? Of which I completely agree, about giving tools and power to parents so they can better cater the exposure of their kids, without surrendering control, I mean.
Believe whatever you want I guess
There is no conspiracy
Is it possible to fake age verification? For example adding a face scanner, which pretends to scan the face to estimate age, but actually just always returns true?