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i love the message, too bad the guy who runs it is a slop peddler
Well... crap! Where'd you find that out? Admittedly I posted this because I thought it was cool, like, before my morning coffee so I didn't read the page 100%. >_<
I don't agree at all with adding age "verification" parameters to Linux (in reality, the parameters just exist; I don't think you ever have to interact with them, so they verify nothing, but I hate the creeping surveillance anyway). This "project" nevertheless just seems like impotent dick-wagging preaching exclusively to a tiny choir and doing nothing useful technically. It comes across as petulant prattle from an LLC otherwise uninvolved in the Linux community and selling merchandise.
I mean they made some strong arguments for their existence. I don't think creating a technically novel piece of software was the goal. This is a technical solution to a legal issue that they expect will soon exist. The sheer existence of this acts as a warning and hurdle for politicians and those funding these laws for the next more invasive version of these laws. I don't expect I'll ever use this, but I'm glad it exists, as its existence is enough for it to work.
The sheer existence of this acts as a warning and hurdle for politicians
This will never be seen by federal or state-level legislators or executives. If you visited the website, you saw the unanimous support in California for the age verification bill. In the event it's sent to legislators as a link, there's almost zero chance they'll visit, let alone read it through. In the narrow chance that, like, one out of thousands actually reads it, it will not act as a warning to them, let alone a hurdle. It doesn't materially threaten anything they're doing – not in a technical sense and not in the sense that anybody but an excruciatingly tiny minority will actually adopt it.
Niche communities like this wildly overestimate their reach and influence among the people outside of them. I don't like it either, but I try to be mindful of it.
Those of us who lived through the Microsoft vs Linux debacle know that you don't need a large, popular distribution to manufacture a legal challenge. All you need is something that effectively undermines the opposition's legal basis.
On a semi related topic, is there any way to implement good parental control in Linux? I'm giving my old thinkpad to my 10yo, so I want to implement some controls in it.
Better off doing this at the router proxy level.
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2026
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