DarkGhost9h ago
It's FOSS

A systemd fork has set out as a fu*k you to age verification.

https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-fork-strips-out-age-verification/

#linux #systemd #ageverification

Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support

The project removes the birthDate field systemd added last week in response to age verification laws.

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Show threadjxvvt8h ago
@itsfoss the headline is misleading, systemd did not add age verificiation support: https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_473
systemd has not implemented age verification

Show threadclonedhuman7h ago

@jxvvt @itsfoss There seems to be more concern about this than what you're asserting is being done by 'Nazis' here.

Why should systemd have this field at all? Why is it necessary?

Show threadspacebug6h ago
@clonedhuman @jxvvt @itsfoss they already have your real name, email, room number and phone number, so why not also bithdate?
Ah and of course you can just not put any data into those fields just as it is today 🤷🏼‍♂️😁
Show threaddraeath6h ago
@clonedhuman @jxvvt @itsfoss I'd bet that because user sessions are handled by logind, and that is a natural place to keep data about the user.
Show threadzetabeta7h ago

@jxvvt @itsfoss
this is slightly more complicated.

one uploader did introduce a age patch, and it got approved,

systemd reverted those changes.

itsfoss should do better reporting though.

my disclaimer: age verification is still a bad idea.

https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41179

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

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.

Sam Bent
Show threadSpirit7h ago
@zetabeta @jxvvt @itsfoss The age field addition was merged. You linked the reversion which was closed. It's definitely still in there. Please follow up.
Show threadzetabeta6h ago
@jxvvt @itsfoss
short and correction:
revert has been blocked, not the changes. birth date field is in systemd. my mistake.
Show threadThe gallant knight7h ago
@itsfoss so they're going to maintain that fork or is this just for show? What a shit show.
Show threadD27h ago
@itsfoss good for them but it’s end goal = sysops are stuck with sysd. Fork harder; devise something sane.
Show threadLilaizen6h ago
@itsfoss let's gooo
Show threadKerplunk6h ago

@itsfoss

A systemd fork has set out as a fu*k you to age verification.
Good
Better: use a NO Systemd distro.

antiX-26 comes with runit, sysVinit, dinit,
s6-rc and s6-66

s6-rc my favorite, boot and shutdown very fast and reliable.

Show threadThinkb4u2h ago
@itsfoss Let’s see how fast someone secretly associated with M$ or Meta etc will try to commit a malware functionality to defame it.
Show threadThinkb4u2h ago
@itsfoss I can already in my mind’s eye see the title… “malicious code found in the liberated systemd fork… better stick with the original project (they promised the ageID API will be optional and easily disabled…)
Show threaddeutrino26m ago
@itsfoss yeah great, I think the correct response however is to start the arduous process of migrating away from systemd-only distros, because this most recent debacle has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that it is in fact cancer