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  • been running Debian trixie for the last year and had zero problems. previously on bookworm for two years still no problems.

    before that I was on Almalinux for a year, zero problems.

    and from 2014-2019 I was on Fedora, again no problems.

    pre-2014 I was on some variant of distro just can’t remember that far back (probably some variant of redhat like centos).

    sporadically I’ve used other distros like Mint, Ubuntu, Arch, BSD, Kali, Raspbian, etc. There were some stability issues with Mint and Ubuntu but everything else was rock solid.

    For decades I have run and supported rhel, fedora, centos, debian, as servers.

    like I said, it’s either the distro, or a skills issue. if you are having problems after updates, you have a package problem and should probably clean up your dependency tree/repos.






  • for a moment, let’s ignore all of the conspiratorial conjecture (not that it isn’t warranted).

    by exposing an API for web services to identify the users age/birthday, how does that solve the issue of “protecting children online”.

    what’s stopping a bad actor from identifying, tracking, and grooming children directly based on this same mechanism?

    right now the majority of kids online are protected through anonymity, but once they are identified they can be targeted directly and the adults responsible for their well being are blissfully unaware because “the government is tracking their age”.

    also. what comes next is worse than the date. online content ratings. because there’s no point in tracking age if you can’t apply a ratings system.

    Imagine entire swaths of the internet banned because the content rating doesn’t meet the government requirements.

    this is less about tracking users and more about censoring dissent.