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		marcosdumay 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brazil publishes list of companies needing age ver... > The law literally requires age verification. It explicitly prohibits self-declaration. Ouch, I hadn't read that law before. I think there doesn't exist any verification mechanism that satisfies it.

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iamnothere 1 day ago [–]

There isn’t, and there’s no way to do this as a free/open service. Effectively this kills community driven FOSS.

Companies like Canonical could use some kind of paid online service to do this, which could be why they just rolled out cloud login. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-LTS-Authd

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