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Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws (itsfoss.com)
submitted 2 months ago by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/1261651/ageless-linux-emerges-to-protest-os-level-age-verification-laws

And thankfully, it's more than just a Linux distro without age verification.

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile the enlightened will protest it by... Not filling in the age field accurately.

[–] Atlas_@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Inb4 it becomes "upload your passport to boot"

[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

ID verification brought to you by Wegets Hakktalot. Where information security didn't make it to the budget.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

It's linux, there would be a million walkthroughs telling you how to patch or recompile it out within a day. I like that these distros are taking a stand but it's not really going to move the needle much.

What should worry us is these policies coming to hardware. It's much more difficult to modify firmware than an open source operating system.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

At which point the enlightened will protest by... using a different distro.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

^creating a script to periodically change it to a random number between 25 and 120.

We have to fuck with the jackasses using it for fingerprinting too.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, this is perfect!