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GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 58 points 2 days ago (45 children)

Hate to say it but systemd, the init system of most Linux distros, already has PRs with maintainer backing to implement DoB recording.

Some people can't kneel fast enough.

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Which already has a revert commit https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41179

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The self-important creator of Systemd has personally blocked that PR, if I'm hearing correctly, which would suggest he or his employer Microsoft is all in on it.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

It's an optional field in the userdb JSON object. It's not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it's standardized iff people want to store the date there, but it's entirely optional.

"I'm not picking a side" and "this future proofs standardization" is of little comfort, that is seriously suspect. I ought to look to alternatives to SystemD(odge the issue failed).

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] tabular@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I was shocked it listed LMDE but it's a very old version (Linux Mint Debian Edition 2).

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So in other words, "Sure we built the people-crushing machines, but we didn't wire them up or turn them on."

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

IBM, is that you?

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

SystemDOGE. It is just a matter of time before Big Balls exfiltrates our Linux data.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

He left MS in January

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Ugh of course. Thanks for pointing that out

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

That has already been closed

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

DoB recording, and ID age verification, are two different things though.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 14 points 2 days ago

My OS has never needed to know my DoB before. What's it gonna do, make me a cake?

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No, they're the same in this context.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

Maybe this'll take the shine off that wunderkinder mess and people will finally be free to choose something more reliable. I love how RH pushed this beta software so hard and my reboots are now just shite -- unreliable and occasionally ridiculously delayed.

I'll be glad to see the back of that metastatic shitball.

[–] tristan@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 0 points 2 days ago

Runit supremacy. Welcome to the void.

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