• HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    What distros are actually planning on forcing users to verify their age? All I’ve heard is maybe adding a optional field for date of birth.

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      It always starts optional. There’s no verification yet but many believe it will be a matter of time.

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        Yeah I mean I’m not defending this bullshit. I think its all stupid, unnecessary and it doesn’t do shit to pRoTeCt ThE cHiLdrEn.

        I wasn’t really commenting on any of that, just asking if there’s any that do actual verification yet.

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        I’d scale my outrage with the severity of the problem. That’s not to say that it’s a good move, and the law itself must be overturned for everyone’s sake, but regarding systemd, we’re at a weird forking point between “slippery slope fallacy” and the type of gradual accumulation of minor evils that sum up to a great one.

        If the slope actually starts slipping and entry becomes mandatory, I’ll take the L and join the push for alternative init systems. Right now, I just have to ration my energy.

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        4 days ago

        Linux is open source, it’s always optional. On the other hand, if it becomes necessary in order to access popular web content, some users will demand it.

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              I only use open source, windows 7 was the last operating system I used before I switched to linux.

              Last year I started removing google and switching my phone to grapheneOs, will in no way go back to microsoft and Co

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      I don’t know but I expect it from corporate distros like Fedora, Ubuntu and Opensuse.

      I don’t think community distros would ever do something like that (despite all the drama going with arch).