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

[itsfoss@mastodon.social]

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

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.

It's FOSS (itsfoss.com)

#linux #systemd #ageverification

[jxvvt@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss the headline is misleading, systemd did not add age verificiation support: https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_473

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@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?

[zetabeta@mastodon.social]

@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.

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 (www.sambent.com)

Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records (#40954)" by paramazo · Pull Request #41179 · systemd/systemd

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[burningtyger@nrw.social]

@itsfoss so they're going to maintain that fork or is this just for show? What a shit show.

[inkomtech@infosec.exchange]

@itsfoss good for them but it’s end goal = sysops are stuck with sysd. Fork harder; devise something sane.

[lilaizen@mastodon.social]

@itsfoss let's gooo

[spacebug@social.n2.mikronod.se]

@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 ‍️