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by gzread 98 days ago
It doesn't ask for any attestation. It's literally just a user profile setting that can be changed by the root user.
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There are various initiatives

> These laws can, and almost certainly will, get worse. New York's proposed Senate Bill S8102A explicitly forbids self-reporting. The state Attorney General will decide how to enforce it. For example, to use Linux, you might need to submit a driver's license.