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Ageless Linux Emerges to Protest OS-Level Age Verification Laws (itsfoss.com)

submitted 3 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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[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A lot of distros (most I've used at least) require user creation before installing. The age verification should be there as my understanding of the text. You can't install the packages before, so this will be effective only for existing installs, unless you patch the install disk prior.

[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

That's a really good point. At that point, we're just talking about a voluntary answer, right? I'm more concerned about the API exposed to the world, so patching that away was what I was thinking.