Look, if an admin-editable “birthdate” field is the extent of the required OS-level age verification API, then whatever. I can just set it to Unix time 0 and not worry about it.
Parents can, in theory, just set up a user account for their kid with an appropriate age (birth year is plenty of granularity, just put 1/1 as the day) and get any “protections” websites want to implement.
I would prefer this over a face scan or drivers license photo any day, because ultimately it’s still 100% in control of the person who owns the hardware
Look, if an admin-editable “birthdate” field is the extent of the required OS-level age verification API, then whatever. I can just set it to Unix time 0 and not worry about it.
Oh, no. That’s just what it is today. Are you new here?
If everyone punches 1/1 as birthdate, then their stats literally flag you as a risk and probably lying about your age, because so many others followed this otherwise simple advice.
You’ll get flagged quicker than anyone as a suspicious person.
If hackers have shown us anything, is that unless you totally cut the cord and run your system in a Faraday cage, then nothing is truly local to your system, and hackers will target said data.
And that’s assuming big corporations aren’t already targeting said data. You do trust big corporations right? Right? /s
Ok, well the other details I’ve got on my computer are my banking details, my credit card details, all my OTP codes and all my account passwords for every service I use alongside my SSH keys to access my VPS.
And I’m not sure EndeavourOS is that big a company, I’m not actually sure they are a company.
Look, if an admin-editable “birthdate” field is the extent of the required OS-level age verification API, then whatever. I can just set it to Unix time 0 and not worry about it.
Parents can, in theory, just set up a user account for their kid with an appropriate age (birth year is plenty of granularity, just put 1/1 as the day) and get any “protections” websites want to implement.
I would prefer this over a face scan or drivers license photo any day, because ultimately it’s still 100% in control of the person who owns the hardware
Here ya go, fuckit, you get my real name. I died in 1955…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24198163/brian_lee-chauvin
Oh, no. That’s just what it is today. Are you new here?
If everyone punches 1/1 as birthdate, then their stats literally flag you as a risk and probably lying about your age, because so many others followed this otherwise simple advice.
You’ll get flagged quicker than anyone as a suspicious person.
that’s why I put in my dads birthdate, he dead, I can remember it. I use it everywhere now that’s not a bank or my government
Fair game, cool cool 👍
I can’t exactly use my dad’s birthday though, I’m saving his other critical numbers in memory for emergency use…
Who’s “they” in this scenario? Since the details being stored here are entirely private and local to the system.
If hackers have shown us anything, is that unless you totally cut the cord and run your system in a Faraday cage, then nothing is truly local to your system, and hackers will target said data.
And that’s assuming big corporations aren’t already targeting said data. You do trust big corporations right? Right? /s
Ok, well the other details I’ve got on my computer are my banking details, my credit card details, all my OTP codes and all my account passwords for every service I use alongside my SSH keys to access my VPS.
And I’m not sure EndeavourOS is that big a company, I’m not actually sure they are a company.
But sure, they can know I’m 38.
They still make paper checks you know right?
I haven’t had any bank account for the past 11 years.
Wonder why? TurboTax direct deposit was refused from my bank.
all those downvotes but you’re right
Better off using a more or less random date, or perhaps February 30th…