On 2026-03-25 09:43:56, R A Montante, Ph.D. via Dng wrote:

>    From The Register this morning:

>

>     [1]Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

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>      Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows

>

>    Cue a stampede to Devuan?

>

>  --
>  "'Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice"
>      - Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

UNIX time is number of seconds since 1970, and since I was born in the
early 1960s, that makes my DOB a large negative number.

Anyone screwing up their age checks might think a large negative number
is very much under age. Though would not surprise me to see someone
reporting my age as "nan years old". I once saw a web site claiming I
owe them "$nan", coz it couldn't handle the fact that they owed me money,
making my balance negative, screwing up their maths.

"nan" is computer speak for "not a number", the result of dividing by
zero and other naughty maths shenanigans.

Curiouser indeed. lol