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aleph_minus_one 4 days ago

> Where can I drop a file to always return 1969

I am out of the loop: what is so special about 1969 concerning age verification?

bravetraveler 4 days ago | parent [-]

I doubt I can do the observation justice, my mind went there thinking 'a moment before the Unix Epoch' and the more... well-traveled meme: 'haha funny number [dropping the leading 19]'. Any number would've worked just as well, it's not significant. I really just wanted to express my participation in this, if at all, likely won't be in good faith.

That said... an option for 'I could have declared an age/birth date but chose not to' seems preferable. I was talking about poisoning but this could be more productive. Any attestation would reasonably fail, sure, but it sends a potentially-meaningful signal [to someone].

aleph_minus_one 4 days ago | parent [-]

> 'a moment before the Unix Epoch'

OK, "I am so old that already lived before the UNIX epoch even started" (or a year which breaks systems that cannot handle times before the UNIX epoch) sounds plausible. :-)

bravetraveler 4 days ago | parent [-]

Fairly context dependent, however :) This attestation/verification topic (and 1969, presumably) keeps appearing in places where I doubt The Epoch is relevant!