To get the old system information corpus, press the "copy" button and paste it into a text editor or anywhere that can type text.

You mean https://github.com/orgs/linuxm... ?

Fortunately Clement Lefebvre didn't go full blown the GNOME style anti-user attitude, and recognized the issue is valid at the end. A damage control from JosephMcc calling it "isn't a bug" and "no plans to change it" in https://github.com/linuxmint/c...

In my proposed system, there is never a record of who bought which age verification card. Only a promise from shops that the cards are always sold to adults, not children. Where is the "they already have your data" come from?

Our society is never capable of stopping an adult buying cigarette then hand off them to underage.

Stop support Nanny State. The exploit you mentioned is a necessary compromise to protect freedom of speech. If banning social platform or restricting social platform feature from underage is *solely* for protecting children, we shouldn't need to care "could we trace which adult break the verification system and let a child watch porn or read/write foul languages". It isn't a crime big enough to worth the time and cost of arrest + prosecution.

When we worry about the loss of anonymity and privacy in online social life, anonymity and privacy form greedy corporations is just a small part of it. The bigger part is anonymity and privacy from authoritarian and totalitarian government.

"Digital ID card" is dangerous by itself, especially if you mean what the UK government tried to mandate.

No, a proper age verification system for online platform shall let no one, not even the government has your actual data.

Print age verification cards similar to how companies print Apple app store gift cards or Google play gift cards. Request cashiers to check one's age upon purchase of these age verification cards. Check one's age in a face to face manner, perhaps some additional eyeball checking of one's ID card. No physical nor digital record of who bought the card will be created, similar to how no reliable record of who bought those Apple / Google gift cards is produced by the convenient store.

I am more willing to give up anonymity for some service than others. If it is personal communication via the phone (e.g. Whatsapp), all authorities know who is using the phone anyway, so the phone number attachment to an app on the phone is more acceptable to me.

But for pure internet social platform, sorry. We don't need permanent record for people who buy beer or porn in a physical shop. Same for online activities. Those people who claim they want to "protect children" can create an anonymous age certificate gift card system, then sell these cards in physical shops. Let cashiers verify the age of the buyers face to face. No record is going to leave behind who have bought which card.

In theory you can host your own Flathub alternative, for software that Flathub rejects, but not for Snap. So Flatpak is more distro-neutral then Snap.

But yeah, any suggestion that Flatpak is "distro lock-in" is plainly wrong.

Women can come back to their job after they get their babies born. This is a fact. And if the boss fires a woman for her pregnancy, the company will be sued for discrimination.

Education system shaming teenage mothers out of education path and/or the lack of assistance of them getting back into education path after childbearing is a systemic discrimination.

In baby boomer era, it was okay or even expected to leave school and get into job market by the age of around 15. "Teenage pregnancy" or "student pregnancy" was a non-issue.

A job working adult can continue their career after pregnancy. Why college is an exception? It is not teenage pregnancy the wrong. It is the education system that discriminate teenage pregnancy the wrong here. Back then average school life ended earlier, thus the conflict was less obvious.

So far, all the age verification tools in use create juicy databases of online-offline identity matching. Such databases are dangerous. They let criminals exploit and hurt people. They let totalitarian governments monitor and threaten anyone who dare expose their crimes.

All these politicians in support of such online age verification are either totalitarians themselves or useful idiots / puppets of those totalitarians.

iceland doesn't mess with the clock. Saskatchewan and Yukon in Canada don't mess with the clock. Russia and Belarus don't mess with the clock. Argentine doesn't mess with the clock. Some of them are further away from equator than you.

Please put the discussion onto summer/winter office hour vs summer/winter clock time. Put down your strawman. My standpoint is if your geolocation requires a shift of timetable, do it properly. Let clock time stay continuous and international communication reliable.

In Hong Kong, we get seasonal school hours and timetables, where each school publish their own timetable and decide their own day of switching. Horse racing (gambling) stop at the hottest days of the summer. Otherwise, no change of timetable for other facilities.

Moving the clock instead of proper timetable shift always sounds dumb to me. Clock shifting may look like a clever trick in the pre-globalization era, when everything happened locally. But nowadays it is just an invitation of trouble. The clock complication adds a lot complexity and risk of mistakes in distant communication.

Rationality may be fundamental to good governance but not fundamental to democracy. The foundation of democracy is the knowledge that power corrupts people. Democracy is the way to put the elites and/or dictators in check.

Maybe you can defend that the "Sydney Sweeney" look is co-owned by you and the "real" Sydney Sweeney?