I've only absorbed bits and pieces of the story, but allegedly there's an age verification push happening on Linux? What's the full story here?

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[–] 11 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I read in another thread that it was merged

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah there was some back and forth. It got approved by someone from Microsoft then unapproved by Lennart Poettering. Basically temporary kerfluffle. There's a writeup from yesterday, I think this: https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/

    There's now an unpopulated field to hold a birthdate but it's not being used by anything. I guess that is sub-optimal though. This kind of thing if it's to exist at all should be on individual user accounts, not anything system-wide.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    then unapproved by Lennart Poettering

    No, you've misunderstood, here is a quote from your own source:

    A merge request asking for this change to be repealed was struck down by Lennart

    It was a reversion that Poettering rejected, the PR stands.

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