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An optional field was added to the userdb to allow storing birthdate. That's it.
https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/
Fix: a useless field was added by a random non-core contributor, and merged by a Microsoft employee.
As long as I dont need to install a GUI on all my headless servers I couldn't give 2 hoots, also while I'm at it. As long as I dont need to workout how I get a GUI on an Aws instance that is headless
Presenting information deliberately out of context, stripped down to its bare essentials, amounts to spreading misinformation.
Brought to you by the same people as HTTP_REFERER, I assume ;-)
iff = "if and only if"
Basically saying the field's there if you need to comply with the law, but otherwise you don't need to use it, just like the other fields.
That's it so far.
Yeah who knows next PR could implement age verification via rectal print verified by aliens from the 7th dimension.
Also, it wasn't a core maintainer who created the PR, which you want for something this sensitive.
All that matters was PR got merged.
Why would it matter who it was that contributed the code?
It's just an extra field that was added to the UserDB. The methods used to access that information have not chaged AFAIK.
Until its not. Rome wasnt destroyed in a day
Yes, but the slippery slope is also a fallacy.
Caution is better than panic.
There's ample evidence there is an organised international push for these mass surveillance efforts in many countries all at once, do you deny this?
Assuming some jurisdictions implement some kind of device based age restrictions, should linux just not exist in those places?
I would argue, for now, this is malicious compliance from the open source community.
Adding an optional field in the UserDB to store an age covers the requirements of the law, without trying to help with the spirit of the law
But I do understand the boiling the frog side
Lets be cautious and remove the mechanism.
In case you are unaware, "iff" is short for "if and only if", i.e. bidirectional implication. It's not a typo.
It is a word, but I don't think it's really applicable here. The standard exists even if no one wants to use it or ever does.
Exactly, making it possible for admins (parents) to set up systems with rules based on age for their many children
They can install some parental controls from the package manager. This doesnot need to be in fucking systemd.