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The ideal solution to age verification is to make consumer devices hyperretarded with VTech-esque toy UIs and dedicate "real computers" to autists who can passionately explain the history of DEC of Maynard, MA for 7 hours straight.

(Alternatively, I'll accept anyone who can even vaguely get the answer right when asked "what is a PDP-11?" without Google/Kagi.)

@maid @monkey

Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM
Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM
Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM
Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM
Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM
Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM
Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM
Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM
Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM
Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM

@maid I jumped ship years ago, but wasn't Poettering now working for Microsoft? Why is he still there and why his opinion should matter at all?

Even then, what even is that API that exposes things like personal names, email, and whatnot? Why should a flatpaked application need this by default? Who designed this madness?
@newt @sendpaws @maid It will likely be a dbus service. There's already an FDO draft for one and someone already made a Python implementation. Which means you'll have to patch it out in every app that would use that service. I doubt they'll integrate it to some DE user management when in the app it will be something as simple as:
KF6::UserAge::get()
Or patch out KF, I'm dumb.
@newt @phnt @sendpaws @maid
> I very much doubt Linux will ever have a way to verify the date

-Computer have hardware level DRM, ME/PSP/TrustZones etc...
-Computer won't start if the OS isn't signed by a trust party you don't control.
-Computer requires mandatory internet connection to boot.
-No more local accounts, online only.
-Your account is linked to your irl ID.
-You can't browser common websites/.gov site as web DRM will check if your OS is signed.

This is already planned as it's progressively enforced more and more.
-Hardware is already full of DRM
-MS has mandatory online account
-Computer phones furthered this behavior via "stores"/repositories.
-Web DRM is slowly being used, youtube tries so often to push it on various part of the population, yandex too, various websites in general
-Current laws are being pushed and code is being integrated for ID/age check.