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slonik

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Registered: 2026-03-20

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Re: Age Verification

So Linux users are expected to go into hiding, rely on encrypted networks on the Dark Net, and accept being social outcasts, while developers who devote their private time to creating programs under the GNU license will be treated as criminals facing massive fines… Maybe that’s what the bureaucrats want?

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Elyon

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Registered: 2026-03-25

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Re: Age Verification

So Linux users are expected to go into hiding, rely on encrypted networks on the Dark Net, and accept being social outcasts, while developers who devote their private time to creating programs under the GNU license will be treated as criminals facing massive fines… Maybe that’s what the bureaucrats want?

That's what corporations want. Bureaucrats are just sold out.

slonik

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Registered: 2026-03-20

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Re: Age Verification

According to the CachyOS forum admin, a ‘radical’ is someone who opposes politicians interfering with the Linux source code

"CachyOS Censors "Radicals" Opposed to Age Verification"
-- The Lunduke Journal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJN6UWZPrzk

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zapper

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Registered: 2017-05-29

Posts: 1,251  

Re: Age Verification

@slonik good to know, I won't recommend CachyOS to anyone now.

This law will likely make kids more targetted not less.

Screw Zuckerberg for this and anyone who supports his bs.

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blackhole

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Registered: 2020-03-16

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Re: Age Verification

https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/age-verif … md/26316/6

Looks like one to avoid...

brocashelm

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Registered: 2020-06-29

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Re: Age Verification

Convinced my friend who used CachyOS to switch to Artix after showing him the Bryan Lunduke video. All is good again.

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pcalvert

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Registered: 2017-05-15

Posts: 308  

Re: Age Verification

I recall recently looking into CachyOS. As soon as I saw that it uses systemd, that was the end of that.

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Duke Nukem

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Registered: 2018-11-07

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Re: Age Verification

Screw Zuckerberg for this and anyone who supports his bs.

From my perspective in the UK, while there has been concern about kids getting addicted to Facebook etc, it has been more to do with stopping them seeing p0rn, and also about stopping anonymity on the internet which some politicians have been pushing for a long time. So far the UK has gone in a different direction, by requiring (under the Online Safety Act) p0rn websites to verify your age - that's right, you are supposed to show a shot of your passport, driving licence or give your credit card details to any shady p0rn site out there. Many non-p0rn websites are also asking for age proof because they are frightened of being prosecuted anyway in case a troll posts a NSFW comment and they take the blame for it. The UK government's answer to the security risks of on-line verification is "Just don't look at p0rn then!".   A UK YouTuber called Cyber Waffle covers this :
https://youtu.be/eJYYO2EoxJg

However, if the practice of putting your birthday into your OS spreads, like it is now spreading in the USA, I have no doubt the UK and other governments will adopt that method too. As a bonus for them, it will be a backdoor method of adding digital ID without the resistance that was met by a straight-out attempt to introduce it recently.

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