Currently, it’s only age attestation when creating a user account though, no verification in the sense of someone/something actually checking that the reported age is correct.
Yes, very funny that these fields have existed for decades but no one knew about it, but suddenly everyone is freaking out because a birthday field has been added.
Sure, let’s just pretend that this is totally unrelated to the laws currently being made and implemented that require the operating system to provide user age to applications and websites for age restriction. After all, all those Gecos fields people have filled have been shared across the internet all those years, oh wait never mind, they didn’t, and they aren’t really being used at all.
Seriously though, what’s your point? Can’t you see any difference here?
Tomorrow, all OS have to collect user gender during installation. Not being used for anything, not being verified. But it’s there. What’s the big deal? /s
Currently, it’s only age attestation when creating a user account though, no verification in the sense of someone/something actually checking that the reported age is correct.
https://github.com/MidnightBSD/src/releases/tag/4.0.4
Wait until people find out all unix-like systems can “verify” their email address, phone number, or even home address.
Yes, very funny that these fields have existed for decades but no one knew about it, but suddenly everyone is freaking out because a birthday field has been added.
Sure, let’s just pretend that this is totally unrelated to the laws currently being made and implemented that require the operating system to provide user age to applications and websites for age restriction. After all, all those Gecos fields people have filled have been shared across the internet all those years, oh wait never mind, they didn’t, and they aren’t really being used at all.
Seriously though, what’s your point? Can’t you see any difference here?
Tomorrow, all OS have to collect user gender during installation. Not being used for anything, not being verified. But it’s there. What’s the big deal? /s