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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux (www.sambent.com)

submitted 2 days ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What a pointless drama article this is.

Yep. The crypto ticker at the bottom of the page is the cherry on top!

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

It's literally an optional birthDate field in a place where there's already realName, emailAddress, and location. If you're concerned about privacy, maybe don't expose your real name, email, and location.

And it's not even fucking installed everywhere:

$ userdbctl
Command 'userdbctl' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install systemd-userdbd

Anybody who is calling this age verification is actively lying to you!

This Sam Bent guy should fucking get bent.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's brigading harassment on a volunteer dev, the post should be nuked this is just doxxing for ad revenue... disgusting

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It was posted by Yσɠƚԋσʂ themselves, who moderates several lemmy.ml communities. I agree it should be nuked, but it's not going to be nuked.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

That's good to know, I don't want to be supporting communities which allow this kind of toxic garbage