Wow, who knew all systemd users were born on 01/01/1970? What a coincidence!
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Why does systemd need to verify age?
Seems like a horrible eagerness to comply in advance with equally horrible US state laws when this legal scenario is not even close to resolved.
Because Meta's lobbying to kill the free and open internet, and personal computing as a concept. Also, MS, Apple, and Google are probably lobbying to kill their competition before it gets too great.
I wonder if they have received directly some donations from that lobbying or signed some contract
I mean explicitly systemd and xdg-desktop-portal. Why are they so eager to implement a nonenforceable law? Did they get one of those grants?
And yet those laws are definitely going to go to court and haven’t been passed yet even, so why the eagerness to comply???
They have been passed and will be enforced in like 2 years. They may be challenged, but it's not a guarantee that a court would oppose it.
I always said systemd was trying to become the entire operating system
It's systemd. A child pest of a Microsoftist pest. It was literally invented to contribute towards the MicrosoftizationMicroslopization of Linux.
Ada preparing to drop systemd
I'm really disappointed that someone hasn't just made a standalone userspace addon to implement the feature, shoved in down California's throat, and told them to come back with complaints once they can find where BSD came from.
Adding this type of "support" is just giving legitimacy to crappy legislation. I would not bother even creating the underlying system so some underpaid google intern can make his age verification app 2% faster.
This entire fiasco could have been a bash script that uses a new file in /etc to store birthdays.
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If this shitstorm keeps up, I will just build my own OS at some point
It is optional field and can be unset and set to arbitrary value by the administrator. If you can build your own OS, isn't it easier to just unset this value?
Age verification is fucking scaremongering for this.
It literally adds a field to record user ages. It doesn't verify anything.
Right. And when KDE (and whatever environments going back to time immemorial) added real name fields, that was a slippery fucking slope towards the Gestapo checking your papers every time you log in, was it?
Why can't the conspiracy folks stick to funny stuff like flat earth?
I've always been a systemd zealot but unfortunately its just too good at what it does.

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