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- cross-posted to:
- linux@lemmy.ml
- linux@programming.dev
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/65555474
Fork time? Maybe all the anti-systemd zealots were right all along…
Edit: To address whether it is likely that this change will affect users: Gnome is planning a stronger dependence on userdb, the part of systemd where this change is being implemented. https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/
Final edit: The PR has been merged into main.
Why does systemd need to verify age?
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
Someone recently exposed all of Meta’s lobbying.
Here’s the Lemmy post talking about it.
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?
Some money probably got passed under the table somewhere to get the competition knocked out.
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.
In Brazil that OS age verification law just became effective. (One day ago)
It doesn’t. The MR is just for an additional and optional field in userdb. The same as in any proper user directory service (LDAP mainly).
It’s systemd. A child pest of a Microsoftist pest. It was literally invented to contribute towards the
MicrosoftizationMicroslopization of Linux.Theres talk of a new law in California that requires operating systems to verify the users’ age. This would be a way of implementing that in Linux distros
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.
The Colorado law is still under consideration and has only gone through the senate. https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051
California is less than a year as it goes into effect this upcoming January 2027.
I always said systemd was trying to become the entire operating system
i’m looking forward to package-managerd and systemd-install