there is no verification happening though

There is in New York, Brazil, and probably other places too. Attestation is a foot in the door and will become verification when it is shown to be ineffective. And unless the law is defeated, it will provide precedent for further legislative intrusion into personal computing.

First they have to build infrastructure for the future mandatory KYC. So, age field comes first, then comes new Poettering startup to deny you modifications of your Linux, and finally you are not allowed to use a computer unless you present your ID.

Because systemd isn’t an operating system. It’s just providing a mechanism for the OS to store/lookup the user’s birthday. It’s up to individual distros to do the verification (should the law stand and OS vendors choose to comply)

True but I'm very much opposed to building the underpinnings for this stuff. If you build it they will use it.

Besides, my OS has no business knowing my date of birth whatsoever. All it should know is the account name I gave it which of course doesn't have to match my real name.

It boggles the mind how so eagerly open source projects are trying to pave the way for these laws.

this is not attestation though? it's just parental controls, no?

what control panel is perfect for literally every type of project and has no edge cases

there is PEP 671 for that, which introduces extra syntax for the behavior you want. people rely on the current behavior so you can't really change it

I've only so far seen the re9 comparisons and imo it's awful there. lots of colored light transfer is suddenly gone, post processing effects like bloom on street lights is also gone and in general it just looks flat to me now

I assume this is pretty rare, but ty sometimes finds real issues that are actually allowed by the spec, like:

  def foo(a: float) -> str:
    return a.hex()

  foo(false)

is correct according to PEP 484 (when an argument is annotated as having type float, an argument of type int is acceptable) but this will lead to a runtime error. mypy sees no type error here, but ty does.

finding out who is a child online doesn't seem difficult at all to me, and i also doubt groomers big issue online is not finding children.

both of you used gmail as an example to make opposing arguments

I'm confused about that. I was pretty sure that Google's policy was that, while they'll delete inactive accounts, the addresses don't become available for use. I thought those addresses were basically dead.

But at least one poster says they're reusing addresses.

Yes, the other person is mistaken, Google does not repurpose accounts.

imo it's not just that other brands are of similar quality but often of way higher quality than lego. you get so much more for less money from other brands, while lego sets are becoming kind of a joke. using stickers everywhere and randomly colored bricks on the internal sides of the set

yes everyone who has a different opinion to you is lying. that's a great worldview

That isn't what I said, can you read what I wrote? There's no need to, ya know, lie about the words I put on the page.