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

submitted 6 days 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 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 8 points 4 days 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 4 days ago

Yes, this is perfect!

[–] Atlas_@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Inb4 it becomes "upload your passport to boot"

[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days 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 4 days 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 5 days ago

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