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Where can I drop a file to always return 1969
It’s admin settable. So just sudo homectl it. You are presumably admin.
A few years down the road it might not be.
In late 90s we would have laughed if somebody proposed this was going to be a thing, let alone that linux community will just go with it. Heck, I would not have believed systemd was going to happen.
And yet, here we are.
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Gasing the Jews was the law as well.
The two couldn't be more unrelated. The idea that age verification in an OS is bad is a niche position by a select few. You don't hear dissenting views on hackernews because the majority here belong to that group and going against the grain is down voted. On the other hand, you're comparing it to killing humans. Making everything into a moral dilemma cheapens the argument. Just because you disagree with the law doesn…
Let’s ask IBM.
The author is not from the places where he claims that these are laws. The Californian law is not in effect. Dylan M. Taylor's GH profile claims that he's from Durham, NC (which does not have this law). He also references to a draft to xdg-desktop-portal which has not been accepted. (Add parental controls to the Accounts portal: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922 ) I'm asking: - What is this guy'…
- https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_request...
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1...
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1... -
The author is not from the places where he claims that these are laws. The Californian law is not in effect. Dylan M. Taylor's GH profile claims that he's from Durham, NC (which does not have this law). He also references to a draft to xdg-desktop-portal which has not been accepted. (Add parental controls to the Accounts portal: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922 ) I'm asking: - What is this guy'…
In fact, he is trying to pave the road for these "age verification" laws in multiple projects: - https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290 - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_request... - https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1... - https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1... -
This isn't just some guy that's overzealous.
Apparently this has escalated: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1rz8i4r/dylan_usef...
Theres a lot of smoke here.
Off his rocker: https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1...
> This is honestly some of the dumbest false equivalence I've ever read. Entering a birth date (that doesn't even have a check for truthfulness) during account setup when the system is first installed equals returning escaped slaves or turning in jews? I'm actually baffled by this comparison. And no, I don't particularly care about North Korean laws.
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It’s admin settable. So just sudo homectl it. You are presumably admin.
Today it is. A few years down the road it might not be. In late 90s we would have laughed if somebody proposed this was going to be a thing, let alone that linux community will just go with it. Heck, I would not have believed systemd was going to happen. And yet, here we are.
From the pull request: > 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. The Brazilian law does NOT require this. This is a misconception, and likely based on an understanding of California's law being extrapolated to the Brazilian law. They are almost complete opposites. The Brazilian law (Lei 15.211/2025) puts…
I'm not sure how you would translate sistemas operacionais de terminais which is covered by the law, but to me it reads "terminal operating systems". If a terminal has its own OS, it is probably not "dumb" in any meaningful sense, and no one really uses terminals anyway except for retro enthusiasts. Even people still using, like, VM/MVS on a mainframe are connecting via a PC running a 3270 emulator. Lei № 12.965 (201…
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Gasing the Jews was the law as well.
The two couldn't be more unrelated. The idea that age verification in an OS is bad is a niche position by a select few. You don't hear dissenting views on hackernews because the majority here belong to that group and going against the grain is down voted. On the other hand, you're comparing it to killing humans. Making everything into a moral dilemma cheapens the argument. Just because you disagree with the law doesn…
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It's quite conservative. Liberalism means I can use my device with no laws in between.
Not conservative (there's nothing traditional about this) or liberal, just surveillance authoritarianism.
last i checked thats what their so called "traditional values" and "conservatism" were actually.