Re: Practical suggestions for resolving the Age Verification problem

"Enji Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Mar 2026 12:17:24 -0700

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> On Mar 9, 2026, at 10:43 AM, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The man page is wrong. It may be required, but usually isn't. 

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> On Mon, Mar 9, 2026, 11:39 AM vermaden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lucas Holt from MidnightBSD just created aged(8) here:
> - https://github.com/MidnightBSD/src/tree/master/usr.sbin/aged

It looks like someone wrote an unauthenticated, unencrypted network daemon that listens on IPv4 and writes to a sqlite3 database that contains incorrectly calculated user ages.

Why in the hell are people even bothering to waste their time and make more insecure systems when it’s obvious BS that needs to be pushed back hard on because it has no practical sense in implementing…? I’m going to laugh so hard if Linux (or any other OS distribution) decides that they need to replicate this pattern of messy PII gathering and future leaking. 1+ extra useless processes per container because the some idiots in Congress or Parliament decided it was needed, or listened to lobbyists pushing for this implementation.

Just, no. Politicians who support this are fucking idiots (I don’t use that phrase lightly), need to be taken out to pasture, and turned into Soylent Green.

-Enji

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