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  • Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

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  • He didn't apply the change, he proposed it.And there's zero surveillance in the change he proposed.

  • If you woke up a billionaire tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd do?

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  • Just a heads-up: Everything on the fediverse is 100% public, forever.Even though it feels like a super-secret conspiratory club sometimes.

  • If you woke up a billionaire tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd do?

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  • I'd put him back to sleep 💁‍♀️

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  • Where the hell are they? That's not a roller-coaster.

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  • I married a bipolar woman. Those were 3 interesting years.

  • Will you send me your worst LGBTQ/Linux sticker images?

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  • Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

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  • Debian takes the source code from upstream systemd and creates their own deb package. They're free to leave out the date field.

  • Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

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    1. It takes a long while for a PR to make it into the distros. The law goes into effect in less than a year.
    2. The organization distributing donations to the various distros (Software In The Public Interest) sits in the US and needs to follow US law in order to not be shut down.Without them, Debian, Arch, LibreOffice, Systemd and dozens of others have no more funding.

  • Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

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  • Because it's going to be a legal requirement, with fines of $7000 per affected underage user, which will instantly bankrupt the US-based non-profit representing Debian, Arch and others, and kill off community-maintained Linux.Do note: The legal requirement is NOT for age verification. Only for having a field where you as the admin can enter whatever the fuck you want.

    If you don't agree with the law, good. Neither do I. But the devs aren't the ones to apply pressure to, here.They're forced to do this to keep the lights on, and they've implemented it in a way that keeps you as the admin in full control.

  • FYI Systemd v261, probably due in May, is the release planned to include the 'birthDate' field.

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  • Nothing, and that's legal, too. The new law only requires a method for putting in an age or birthdate, no age verification.

  • Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

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  • I'm a Debian guy so I'll set mine to April 28, 1973.

  • The US bans all new foreign-made network routers

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  • Based on the regulation as written, approval is granted only if the company:

    • Fully reveals their entire supply chain
    • All business relationships and contracts
    • Justifies why they aren't producing in the US
    • And provides a detailed step-by-step plan with a fixed schedule for moving production to the US
    • Which is then monitored by the government

  • FYI Systemd v261, probably due in May, is the release planned to include the 'birthDate' field.

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  • I applaud any devs pushing back against this.But users harassing, berating or villifying devs just for following the new law can go get fucked.

  • FYI Systemd v261, probably due in May, is the release planned to include the 'birthDate' field.

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  • Yeah, but also let's not lose sight of the fact that the SPI (the legal representative and donation distributor for Arch, Debian, Gentoo, LibreOffice, Systemd and a lot of other open source communities) can easily be sued out of existence if they don't follow the law.And several large corporations have a big incentive to pursue that.

    So there is room for discussion whether a maliciously compliant age field that only the local admin can edit is worse than the death of community-driven Linux development as we know it today.

    Maybe this isn't the hill to die on.

  • Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however

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  • Their entire company philosophy and culture revolves around Copilot.Every coding task needs to start with a prompt.The use of Copilot is tracked and if you don't use it enough, you get called into a meeting.Copilot is used to write your own progress reports and by management to read them for performance reviews.

    So basically, Windows 11 is now vibe-coded using the worst AI on the market.

  • FYI Systemd v261, probably due in May, is the release planned to include the 'birthDate' field.

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  • What I don't understand:Why is everyone hating on systemd for adding the birthdate field, but no one is bashing xdg-desktop-portal for adding the actual age verification attestation system?

    Is it because systemd makes for a better target?Or because most don't know what xdg-desktop-portal actually does?

    By the way, Freedesktop.org's Accountsservice is doing the exact same thing for non-systemd users.

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  • Tsundere

  • You're missing at least five

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  • Log in with 23andme.To authenticate, you need an actual pin.

  • You're missing at least five

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  • My bank, social security, email provider, and the tax office.But only for account creation.