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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago
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Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.
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    Your real name and location data have been stored in UNIX/Linux for over 60 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecos_field

    realName and location have been fields in systemd since the beginning.

    Were you panicking about this before social media told you to be afraid?

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      Your real name and location data have been stored in UNIX/Linux for over 60 years.

      IF you entered that info. And it wasn’t being used by applications to enable surveillance laws. It’s a false equivalency.

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        The birthDate field is optional. As userdb as a whole.

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          It’s like talking to a wall with these people.

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            What do you mean with “these people”?

            All I say is that no one forces you to enter a value in an optional part oft the systemd project (not to be confused with systemd, the init process).

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              By “these people”, I mean people who just don’t get it.

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          Age verification isn’t optional (at least in the jurisdictions in question, and for now).

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