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Ageless Linux is Debian Linux, but with any age verification taken out. This is a protest of laws like California’s that require “operating system providers” to provide “age bracket information” on any user to any software that requests it.

Aside from how creepy it is that our operating systems are required to tell anyone who asks that a child is using them, this law is ridiculous. It’s a compliance exercise and if we allow it there will be more where this came from.

Ageless Linux takes a stand by refusing to comply.

The downloads page (agelesslinux.org) does not yet have installer images available, but there is a shell script (agelesslinux.org) that will convert any Debian based system into Ageless Linux.

I looked over that code. I do not recommend running it because it changes almost everything in /etc/os-release and /etc/lsb-release. Those are used by some software to identify what kind of system you are running—ironically, even this Ageless installer script uses them.

The installer is an interesting look at how this ridiculous legal requirement might be carried out though. Debian and other distros have no standard way of doing it yet, so this script doesn’t remove any existing software. It adds its own dummy age verification API command that spits out some error text and exits.

The site also has a lot of information on these laws. They track which US states have them, who is sponsoring them, and the official responses of Linux distros. It’s a good site for keeping track of this nastiness (their RSS feed is broken though).

Ageless Linux is Debian Linux, but with any age verification taken out. This is a protest of laws like California’s that require “operating system providers” to provide “age bracket information” on any user to any software that requests it. Aside from how creepy it is that our operating systems are required to tell anyone who asks that a child is using them, this law is ridiculous. It’s a compliance exercise and if we allow it there will be more where this came from. Ageless Linux takes a stand by refusing to comply. The [downloads page](https://agelesslinux.org/download.html) does not yet have installer images available, but there is a [shell script](https://agelesslinux.org/become-ageless.sh) that will convert any Debian based system into Ageless Linux. I looked over that code. I do not recommend running it because it changes almost everything in `/etc/os-release` and `/etc/lsb-release`. Those are used by some software to identify what kind of system you are running—ironically, even this Ageless installer script uses them. The installer is an interesting look at how this ridiculous legal requirement might be carried out though. Debian and other distros have no standard way of doing it yet, so this script doesn’t remove any existing software. It adds its own dummy age verification API command that spits out some error text and exits. The site also has a lot of information on these laws. They track which US states have them, who is sponsoring them, and the official responses of Linux distros. It’s a good site for keeping track of this nastiness (their RSS feed is broken though).
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also devuan.org

bonus point, no systemd cancer there

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That makes sense.

The Ageless Linux website is trying to keep track of each distro’s compliance status, but they only have a few in the list so far.

Judging by their forum discussion (forums.linuxmint.com) Linux Mint has no intention of complying either. They’ll likely rip out any compliance measures Debian or Ubuntu put in.

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I've been migranting my main Debian VM to that.

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The only answer should be "fuck you, we will not comply". We are not China.

Soon they will require you to run "Commiefornia OS". Even if you don't live there. Because you might use a website for a business at some point (out of your control, like a CDN or something) that has servers there.

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I am still amazed any business can be operated there.

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I think (((their))) plan is to get these laws passed in so many US states and countries that every OS complies rather than take the risk of being fined millions of dollars a day in multiple jurisdictions.

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What exactly are they planning to use to verify age? Windows sucks communist cock and the streetshitters use a hole beind the M$ building so they'll be doing shady shit to verify but how else is linux distros supposed to do? Just take the OS' word for it?

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These laws currently require no age verification of any kind. They simply require the “operating system providers” to ask the user for their age bracket and to somehow provide that information to any software that asks.

As I said, the laws are useless compliance exercises. They are only the start. If we allow these then more and more laws will be enacted and each one will be worse than the last.

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I agree. That's how it starts. Just seat belt laws. Just for safety at first but now it's used as probable cause to search your vehicle to find crimes (or stage them).

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am disappoint...was expecting eternal electronic nirvana...

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Of course linux fags would find this funny. I find this funny. You can literally write your own linux kernel patches to remove specific lines of code. Kgraft or w/e, I think, I forget and I'm a nigger.

Please note that under this statute, a "user" is by definition a child. If you are 18 or older, you are not a "user" under AB 1043. You are an "account holder" (§ 1798.500(a)). The entire law regulates the experience of "users," who are exclusively children. Adults are not users. They are infrastructure.

As I've stated since this came out: this law is about HARVESTING CHILDREN, that's it.

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So far they’re not talking about putting it anywhere as deep as the kernel. They don’t like the idea of making it a standard part of any major, cross distribution API.

Maybe that’s another way to fight this: malicious compliance.

Technically follow the law and implement some API that returns age bracket information for the current user, but make it easy for users to disable it, and make it different in every flavor of every distribution so that no app developer can reasonably have it working everywhere.

Bonus points: Change your distro’s age verification API every year or so.

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No. That's the most cucked thing to do . You do not set up the infrastructure and say "LOOK AT ME SENDING YOU GARBAGE!" you just do not comply. As ageless is doing.

Kernel was the wrong word, but these CA faggots would, at the end of it, require UID to be age-gated, and UID is kernel space. User accounts are User Space and trivial to ignore.

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Then you are an operating system provider who has distributed an operating system to a child without collecting their age at account setup. But here's the thing: you don't have an "affected child." You have a person whose age you don't know. The law fines you per "affected child" (§ 1798.503(a)), but can only identify a child as "affected" through the age bracket data (§ 1798.500(b)) that the law requires you to collect. You can't be fined per child until you've counted the children. You count the children by asking their age. You're being fined for not asking their age. The law eats its own tail.

The ouroboros.

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That’s the easy, obvious way to catch violators. I’m sure that’s what they’re hoping for down the road: an OS that reports tips off the police when it’s not complying with something.

The harder way to catch violators still works though. If an authoritarian school teacher ever catches a child viewing something age restricted and calls the police the “operating system provider” will be fined.

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Technology is a curse.

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jews ruin everything they put their rubbing hands on.

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It’s like dealing with Wile E. Coyote. They never stop.

You can have a healthy, functioning society, or you can have jews.