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In the meantime systemd already added handling for Age to the system bus. Next step is to add your race, then income, then who you voted for...
> Next step is to add your race, then income, then who you voted for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
> non-fallacious forms of the argument can also exist.[7]: 273–311
Age verification at the OS level makes no sense to me. Most households aren't going to have a separate device for every family member and so you will end up with a tablet or computer set up by one of the parents (and thus having their age stored) that will be used by both parents and children. Likewise, people generally won't create a separate account for every potential user.
What are you talking about, most households give personal phones to their children, especially teenagers. Laptops aren't rare either.
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I still view it as a step in the wrong direction. And it sends a message that this kind of law is ok.
That depends on what kind of law you view this as. As a parental control like the V-chip (but hopefully with a higher percent of parents using it) it's nothing new.
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You're not really going to be watching porn at the library though, just saying
In fact, many libraries have computers sectioned off in semi-private areas exactly for this reason...
I mean we have places here like that where you can insert some coins for a private viewing cabin but we don't call them libraries :)
We expected no less from GOS project. systemd which was already in hot water over because the problems it creates over service, this was the last drop to get folks dropping systemct altogether.
I think the only option really at this point is to move over to BSD, but we face other issues like GPU drivers etc. The same people that worry about systemd probably also worry about AI, so if they want to be able to use it, it needs to run locally.
The 3rd option is to move away from general computing, and start building esp32 powered tools, where we can own the fulls stack. Dedicated digital tools for specific purposes. Personally, this sound like the best option, taking into account that we have almost lost the battle for open OS on mobile devices. We need to get away from the giant US corporations for the majority of our computing, and only interact with them when absolutely necessary. A grass roots computing moment basically.
Age verification at the OS level makes no sense to me. Most households aren't going to have a separate device for every family member and so you will end up with a tablet or computer set up by one of the parents (and thus having their age stored) that will be used by both parents and children. Likewise, people generally won't create a separate account for every potential user.
> Age verification at the OS level makes no sense to me. it's the only form of "age verification" which can be done in a somewhat privacy respecting way (as in at most leak the age) the idea is to "bounce back" the "is old enough" decision to parent controls and let the parent choose (the Californian law doesn't quite do that perfectly, but goes into that direction) and if you sell what is more or less a general purp…
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Or just not have it at all? What is wrong with parental controls AND parenting? What real issue does this solve?
It solves the problem of your kid borrowing a phone from another kid at school.
Also I'm not convinced that borrowing a device presents a new or different failure mode. Children could always obtain physical contraband from their friends so nothing has changed here.
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> Next step is to add your race, then income, then who you voted for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
From your link: > non-fallacious forms of the argument can also exist.[7]: 273–311
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> An adult had to pay for the ISP connection Ever heard of free wifi?
I have! And an adult still has to pay the connection charges to offer that free wi-fi. Or provide the funds for a kid to buy a device to connect to said free wi-fi. You can go down the rabbit hole as far as you like, but it's to no avail. At some point , an adult has to consciously enable the child to connect to the internet. Full stop.