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?

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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: https://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.

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      2 months ago

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      A merge request asking for this change to be repealed was struck down by Lennart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