For 99% of what happens on the Internet? No. No, we can’t. That would be malicious fearmongering.

malicious fearmongering? all that most people know about “the internet” is facebook, instagram, tiktok and the other corporate propaganda machines. by popularity, that is absolutely 99% of the internet, and not “the renaining 1%”, as you are portraying it.

Educate parents so they can prevent their children from accessing that harmful 1%

wasn’t that exactly what I was saying? providing tools in the freaking operating system to limit what your kid can do? but downvote me to hell because I’m clearly wrong and that will surely fix everything!

But this age tracking shit will do absolutely nothing to protect children,

you know what it will do? with proper OS level integration, with programs taking it upon themselves, easier presets for the kid to only access age appropriate things. age brackets, that’s it.
then even the web browser can manage the limitations natively, either with filterlists like what ublock uses, or when the visited website self-declares its category.

Its only purpose is to control access to the Internet,

how in the fucking hell will it control access to the internet when the local system administrator can change the age bracket setting in the OS.

when I was looking I have found exactly zero parental controls for linux. which ones do you know?

honest conversation will not supervise the kid while you are away, and we are not living in a fairy tale where kids just magically behave.

except if you can be a stay at home parent to do this manually.

I don’t think fedora has unique requirements for user info

What problem does this even solve? On Linux, what app would even be asking how old you are? Web browsers for sure, and maybe electron apps like Discord? But what else is there?

I’m on Bazzite (based on Fedora). I’m comfy

well, the app catalog, steam, certain games, …

tbh parental controls would be useful to have. you can’t be watching every minute if they are doing something inappropriate. usage time limits are also useful.

why are people so much against tools? we are so afraid of the slippery slope that we don’t even consider to accept legitimately useful optional tools

can we acknowledge that what happens on the internet today is harmful to children? now, you either properly set up limits for them, or cut their access, if you want any good.

that downvoter really could have instead done something useful and explain what “format as table” is

btw, libreoffice calc supports python macros, so you don’t need to choose between the two

it was partly made for mathematicians who did not know how to develop software, but also for education. so I guess it’s a good starter language. but it allows doing way too much things that will be very confusing when overused

except that they don’t even know about the existence of the open tech, and that they are too complicaaaateeeed

but it is not even that old, is it? how did they end up on teams?

but it is not even that old, is it? how did they end up on teams?

teams? with family? why?

but does ISP provided equipment count as consumer grade?

TIL that a single ’ is a feet. but what’s a "?

do you mean there is a known upcoming change in signal?

linux users are allowed to watch the show in compressed 720p. that’s it.

Applications can then ask, “is the current user over 18?” And just gets true/false.

the current implementation allows reading the precise age

ah yeah because all of our digital clocks, smartphones, smart watches, microwaves, washing machines, TVs, and… what else stores user age in a standardized manner? oh, you say none of these and no other things either?

and guaranteeing even that on alternative browsers, software or hardware aren’t excluded.

aren’t they? last time I checked any browser on linux had artificial problems with playing DRM content from streaming platforms

very few people use signal