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PunchyHamsteryesterday at 9:41 PM3 repliesview on HN

IIRC systemd already started implementing some hooks for age verification API


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novafuncyesterday at 9:45 PM

systemd added a field where users can add their date of birth. It's completely optional.

It's not implementing age implementation, but can be used as a place to store a DOB in an age verification system.

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miohtamayesterday at 9:55 PM

AFAIK they were implemented by Microsoft staff.

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trhwayyesterday at 10:25 PM

how would it work in the age of everything virtual, from containers to VMs, even an OS instance running in a browser, with OS/kernels being spanned in sub-seconds and existing even for just one call with no user interaction. Are they going to inherit age bracket from supervisor/parent process? Which of course wouldn't work for AWS/GCP, and many other cases. It looks to me like it would require something similar to security labels implementation.

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