Ok, so the systemd change was acceptable (since it was optional), this is absolutely not. Fuck this shit. If it’s coming to NixOS I’m going to do everything I can to stop it, and otherwise I’m keeping a Nixpkgs patch that reverts the commit

I don’t see a single comment like this here tho? It’s either mocking him for his bigotry, wondering what the sport is, or mocking it as a rich-people-goofy-sport (which is still leagues away from “stay on the couch tard”).

And then maaybe stop defaming her? Like, this post should be ban worthy by any reasonable instance and community rules?

This is a shitpost community, I’m pretty sure it is implied that everything posted here is satirical and/or ironic and/or made up for fun. You wouldn’t sue The Onion for defamation either (or maybe you would, IDK)

None, sadly.

The requirement to check age is on the provider.

Well, if you’re going that route, there are a whole bunch of other issues (apart from absolving parents from responsibility for their kids digital wellbeing). Either the provider just asks the user for their age (which is what we’re doing now, and it’s just 100% useless), or there would have to be some way to prove one’s age. Presumably it would be via a government-issued token of some kind, ideally as a ZK proof. While there are some european countries where this is somewhat feasible, for most of the world issuing every resident a smartcard which can attest if one is an adult or not is just not possible. So, you’d be forced to either give out gov-signed certificates of age as files (which will be easily reused by kids to access stuff which they shouldn’t), or you have a centralized server which can issue time-limited certificates on the fly based on some ID (which will tell the government that you wanna watch adult stuff), or you just have to upload your ID to the provider directly (I hope I don’t need to explain why this is bad).

Meanwhile, what we are discussing right now is just a basic extension to parental controls. Notice how the field is not mandatory, you can just leave it empty, and I’d argue everyone who doesn’t have kids should just do that. As it is implemented right now, the machine administrator decides if they want to use this or not and what to set the date to. Even if some distro complies with the stupid law and make it mandatory in california (which I’d argue they shouldn’t), you can just enter 1970-01-01 and be done with it, because you decide what to put in that field during account creation.

This means any website can ask for your birth date. Then they store it, and use it for tracking. Private browser? HAH! Not your birth date!

Well, first of all, for now browsers don’t even support reading userdb at all, and there’s no way for website to request it. Then, I hope when it is implemented it will be hidden behind a website permission so that kids can decide if they want to share it or not (i.e. “this website wants to know you age: allow/deny”). For adults (if the california law gets implemented), I hope that “privacy” browsers will have a feature to return a random date (more than 18 years ago) every time if the field is not set in userdb, or you can just write a cronjob/systemd-timer that changes the date randomly every hour.

There is a question of random apps now having unfettered access to your child’s birthday. This is indeed an issue, and poettering’s approach of “just containerize it” is not very cool. It would be nice to have a way to gate userdb access behind a user prompt, similar to what I’m describing for browsers. I guess for now flatpaking everything you don’t 100% trust not to read userdb is the only option.

Eh, this would make it 100% useless though.

I think it’s fairly reasonable for adults to want to ensure a 10-year-old doesn’t get mental health issues by being served hardcore BDSM porn unsupervised, or get scammed by a pig butcher on social media. Of course a curious 10-year-old can’t be trusted to enter their real birth date. So, adding this info to a root-managed userdb kinda makes sense. At this point there’s nothing to suggest that this age will be verified in any way, other than “the person entering it has write access to userdb”. So in the current form it’s just another tool for parents to control what their child sees (provided any apps actually use this field in the future).

However, I’d argue just the birth date is the wrong approach to this and it needs to be more granular.

Europe is SO small

Depends on what you count as Europe. If you include Turkey, Caucasus and/or the western part of Russia, it is fucking huge (~7500 km drive from Vorkuta to Cabo da Roca). Even if you only count EU countries, it’s still not that small (~5000 km drive north-to-south). And it’s also way denser than the US so there’s more to see overall, you can’t even explore any single country comprehensively in two weeks time (apart from microstates, of course)

“Will not affect power users at all” is just not true. I will now have to wait an entire day before I can start using my next phone. Well, either that or android-translation-layer advances enough for me to switch to a Linux phone full-time.

I guess the only thing that reads most of those is one poor regexec(3) in a loop.

Relevant xkcd

NixOS is definitely not as corporate as MacOS or ChromeOS. It’s also not as mainstream as RHEL. I’d say RHEL should be one square to the right, NixOS should go where RHEL is now, and Guix should share the square with Gentoo.

In the previous century japan and germany were strong contenders. This time around it’s neck-in-neck with israel, and russia is a distant third.

To be honest most popular youtube channels are slop, whether they are AI or not. There are a lot of gems in there as well, but their monetization model pushes creators towards high-quantity low-quality content with clickbait.

Sorry to be picky, but it’s definitely way more than 40000 dead Palestinians.

This seems to be an opt-in, user-supplied field that apps can use to implement parental controls easier. If you’re gonna do birth dates at all, this is the way.

But IMO it should be more granular: there should be fields for WWW access, social media access, sex/nudity/violent content, and apps should respect those individually. Then parents can choose what is appropriate for their child at their development level.

Hey, Stalin (for all his many flaws and awful decisions) industrialized the country and lead the war to victory over nazism.

Trump is worse, he has literally zero redeeming achievements.

If you vibe-code it and use an LLM to respond to reviews, it is really easy to tell.

If you know what you’re doing and just using an LLM to speed up boilerplate writing, honestly who cares. It is technically copyright infringement but so many people are doing it that it’s not likely to be a problem.

I think this policy is overblown a bit. A better policy is “you need to understand, and be responsible for, what every part of your contribution does”. Enough to tell lazy vibecoders to fuck off, and allows for some flexibility in your tooling.

Russia did some pretty bad stuff in Ukraine (including some war crimes) but nowhere near the hell on earth unleashed by the US every few years. The civilian death toll in Ukraine war in 3 years is way less than any single year of the Gaza genocide.

China did overreact to uighur nationalist terror groups with unnecessary searches, arrests, and reeducation camps, but it’s not even closely comparable to the other two. The closest widely-known comparison is perhaps the Japanese internment camps the US did during WW2, but less widespread.

US is by far the shittiest most evil country on this planet, and until you come to terms with this and internalize it, you’re (a small) part of the problem.

You know that you can just get a visa, go there, and talk to people there, right? Or watch many of the interviews from reporters (western or otherwise) who went there already. It’s not like NK where you can only visit certain pre-approved areas with a “tour guide” either, in Cuba you can go whenever you want (within reason) and talk to whomever you want.