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

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

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)

[dim@fedi.dimmadome.net]

@davidgerard brb going to build the torment nexus for a laugh

[einsiedlerspiel@todon.nl]

@davidgerard

You saw the crypto footer? strange times

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@einsiedlerspiel oh yes

[uwehalfhand@norcal.social]

@davidgerard Useful idiot, indeed.

[schrotthaufen@mastodon.social]

@mathew @davidgerard 1930s IBM would like to extend an offer for hiring

[svenouille@mastodon.social]

@schrotthaufen @mathew @davidgerard

Or the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit

[willegible@mastodon.ie]

@mathew @davidgerard This is easily the best of the seemingly thousands of critical posts I've seen on the matter.

[adingbatponder@fosstodon.org]

@davidgerard As a spectator using linux I am really scared that things work this way. Will we be reaching the point where one has to store and maintain and "gate keep" one's own personal linux version or kernel to stop this rot? Does #nixos if pinned keep the old #systemd pre this nonsense? What else is happening we should be aware of?

[das_g@chaos.social]

@adingbatponder «Does #nixos if pinned keep the old #systemd pre this nonsense?» I would think so (unless –of course– if you let some mechanism auto-update the pins), but would that be a good idea? It'd mean to also miss out on updates with security fixes.

So I guess it'd be better to let the corresponding nixpkgs package definition patch this feature out, or, if some in the community want it for whatever reason, introduce a compile-time option for it.

@davidgerard