ComicalMayhemMar 21

What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff?

https://lemmy.world/post/44568049

What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? - Lemmy.World

I’ve only absorbed bits and pieces of the story, but allegedly there’s an age verification push happening on Linux? What’s the full story here?

Show threadsolrizeMar 21
Some random foolishly submitted a systemd patch and it got rejected after some back and forth. I think there’s not much more to it so far.
Show threadMark with a ZMar 21
I read in another thread that it was merged
Show threadsolrize

Yeah there was some back and forth. It got approved by someone from Microsoft then unapproved by Lennart Poettering. Basically temporary kerfluffle. There’s a writeup from yesterday, I think this: itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/

There’s now an unpopulated field to hold a birthdate but it’s not being used by anything. I guess that is sub-optimal though. This kind of thing if it’s to exist at all should be on individual user accounts, not anything system-wide.

Systemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to Linux

The optional birthDate field gives other projects a standardized data source for age verification compliance.

It's FOSS
Mar 22 at 12:51amWeb
Show threadozymandias117Mar 22
UserDB does hold data connected to individual user accounts
Show threadDeebsterMar 22

then unapproved by Lennart Poettering

No, you’ve misunderstood, here is a quote from your own source:

A merge request asking for this change to be repealed was struck down by Lennart

It was a reversion that Poettering rejected, the PR stands.

Show threadsolrizeMar 22
Hmm ok, maybe you could write up a quick summary. Yes it’s possible that I mis-read it. I thought that LP had rejected the PR. Thanks.