Systemd Introduces Birth Date Support for Upcoming Linux Desktop Age Controls

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m only upvoting this to help visibility to others that sort/browse by Hot/Top/Popular or whatever.

  This is a disgrace to Linux!

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why is it a disgrace? Systemd is open source; you can fork it to ignore the field, or hard-code the value if you want.

    This lets OS vendors/developers distribute Linux Oses that want to support this in countries that demand it, after which anyone can modify it however they want.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah that sounds fun, read through a million lines of code to tweak a few constants and variables, because you can’t access the internet anymore to research the code before you fix the code yourself?

      What’s the end game here?

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  a pretty neat virus would just set everyone’s birthday to 20/04/1969

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• CovfefeKills@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder if this is all going to end on negative privacy. Like the last thing we have left is just to put it all out there so everyone has access to everyone’s data and no single organization can use it for leverage.

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• Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Look, if an admin-editable “birthdate” field is the extent of the required OS-level age verification API, then whatever. I can just set it to Unix time 0 and not worry about it.

  Parents can, in theory, just set up a user account for their kid with an appropriate age (birth year is plenty of granularity, just put 1/1 as the day) and get any “protections” websites want to implement.

  I would prefer this over a face scan or drivers license photo any day, because ultimately it’s still 100% in control of the person who owns the hardware

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Look, if an admin-editable “birthdate” field is the extent of the required OS-level age verification API, then whatever. I can just set it to Unix time 0 and not worry about it.

    Oh, no. That’s just what it is today. Are you new here?

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Here ya go, fuckit, you get my real name. I died in 1955…

    www.findagrave.com/memorial/…/brian_lee-chauvin

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If everyone punches 1/1 as birthdate, then their stats literally flag you as a risk and probably lying about your age, because so many others followed this otherwise simple advice.

    You’ll get flagged quicker than anyone as a suspicious person.

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    • hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      that’s why I put in my dads birthdate, he dead, I can remember it. I use it everywhere now that’s not a bank or my government

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    • TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      all those downvotes but you’re right

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• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Guess how many people were born April 20th, 1969.

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  • ShankShill@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s pre-Unix time!

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    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good news for QA.

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• hraegsvelmir@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Eh, unless this is a module that one can opt out of, I’ll just go back to using a different init system. Hopefully, enough other people do the same, and devs realize this is a step incompatible with the motivations many have for using Linux and FOSS projects more generally.

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• TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What’s it going to do, ask for your dob during setup? Ohno!

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• timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pretty sure he’s also a genocide defender, and we at least know his pedo-founded employer is, so this makes sense.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Let’s not play that ‘pretty sure’ card here, provide actual information links supporting your position, or just shut the fuck up.

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    • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I see I’ve pissed off fans of minor tracking & defenders of those that remained silent as Minorhard was assisting Israel in genocide. Silence is complicity & if there are no comments by Pottering as he was working for one of the largest companies helping the Nazis in their modern day holocaust, then that tells you all you need to know.

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