OSS Anti Surveillance: public tracker for OS-level age signaling and related surveillance mechanisms (github.com)
from redrumBot@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 18 Mar 16:25
https://lemmy.ml/post/44673094

Source: lists.debian.org/debian-devel/…/msg00199.html

:::spoiler msg extract:

I want to share a public project I created in response to the ongoing discussions around OS-level age verification, age signaling, and related mechanisms in free software distributions:

github.com/AntiSurv/oss-anti-surveillance

The project exists to document, track, oppose, and prepare the removal of OS-level surveillance, classification, and policy-enforcement mechanisms in free software distributions.

This is not limited to one patch or one component. A visible implementation path is now emerging across multiple layers of the Linux stack, including provisioning flows, account metadata services, user records, and application-facing interfaces.

[…] The project’s position is explicit:

  • no OS-level age verification
  • no age signaling or age-bracket APIs
  • no client-side scanning or device-side inspection primitives
  • no passive downstream inheritance of such mechanisms
  • no geo-fencing users out of free software as a substitute for refusal

[…] The repository is intended as a public dossier and working reference point. It includes:

  • a front page and project statement
  • a manifesto
  • a tracker of issues, PRs, and MRs
  • a policy and law background file
  • a technical architecture map
  • a component-by-component target list
  • a downstream stripping and reversal strategy

The immediate goal is to keep the implementation path visible, linkable, and auditable so that these changes can be challenged upstream and, if they are merged anyway, stripped downstream rather than quietly inherited.

If useful, I would welcome corrections, additional evidence, and links to relevant upstream or downstream work that should be tracked.

Free software was written for users, not for surveillance.

- Martinx - ジェームズ

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ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw on 18 Mar 16:41 next collapse

All the PRs were opened by the same shill, dylanmtaylor. In the archinstall PR he says:

Unfortunately, the new laws go into effect January 1, 2027. They requires operating system providers to collect age information during account setup. There are very high penalties for non-compliance to the point they are an existential threat to free and open source software that doesn’t meet the requirements.

I hope this cuck gets hit by a bus.

araneae@beehaw.org on 18 Mar 17:40 collapse

That seems extreme. Could you explain your point of view a bit more? Is it because it seems hes implying (presently non existing) consequences on users or legal comsequences toward init and distro projects?

midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Mar 17:48 next collapse

This is an AI slop repo. Somebody is paying money to anthropic to harass volunteer open source developers. Pretty gross honestly, let’s keep our outrage aimed at microslop and co, and the legislators behind them.

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Mar 03:46 collapse

Evidence or it didn’t happen.

TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml on 18 Mar 17:58 collapse

The company behind os level age verification is Meta: github.com/…/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings