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Systemd Introduces Birth Date Support for Upcoming Linux Desktop Age Controls
- razingeden 7mo agoPlease god let this be the reason systemd finally dies
- OsrsNeedsf2P 7mo agoXDG is also doing it. Which Linux distro doesn't follow XDG spec?
- helterskelter 7mo agoPlenty, if you remove all the software that follows XDG :)
- hulitu 7mo ago> XDG is also doing it. We need age verification in every program. The kernel shall panic if an underage user is using the computer. /s
- superb_dev 7mo agoI don’t know why this would kill systemd
- autoexec 7mo agoMost distos have already made the choice to accept systemd knowing it'd be filled with feature creep and bloat, this is basically just getting more of what they asked for. Nearly everyone is going to have to find someplace to implement this bullshit age verification nonsense though. I don't expect saner minds to prevail anytime soon.
- burtness 7mo agoIt won't because none of the alternative inits are better
- christophilus 7mo agoI agree, but dinit is pretty good.
- Fwirt 7mo agoA reminder that there are still valid escape options for us systemd haters. Probably the best if you're not a heavy desktop environment user is Alpine. I ran Devuan for a couple years with only minor issues. And there's always Gentoo. I find it very comforting that I can control the init system just by editing shell scripts.
- 00N8 7mo agoWTF. What's the best option for an actual free operating system these days? I should be able to tell each app any birthday I want.
- workfromspace 7mo agoFirst 2 I can think of is FreeBSD for BSD and Artix for Linux (Arch without systemd)
- grigio 7mo agohttps://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify
- lern_too_spel 7mo agoThis page conflates age verification, which Brazil's law requires, with single source of truth age restriction APIs, which California's law requires. One requires validating a government ID. The other just says that each app shouldn't separately ask about age, with no change in how that age is required to be verified (it isn't). This confusion makes the summary tables completely misleading. For example, GrapheneOS's cited statement (https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116261301913660830 https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116261301913660830) is incompatible with the Brazilian law but not the Californian one.
- christophilus 7mo agoChimera and Void don’t use systemd. Musk is kinda rough sometimes, though.
- halperter 7mo agoThe PR in question: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954
- christophilus 7mo agoIt’s still up to the distro, so I think this is fine. This gives distros an easy way to comply and lets other distros nope out of it.