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.
You could just put a fake date in at user setup from what I understand. It adds the field to the user database but there isn’t any verification that that date is true
I’ve heard somewhere that they’ll require a constant api calls from each system to an external verification system that is even paid. I don’t remember where I read this but if that’s the case then we are fucking doomed.
Yes, it’s exactly like the realName and location fields that have been in UNIX/Linux for over 60 years.
It’s incredibly clear who is being whipped up into a frenzy by social media clickbait. Your birthDate is not nearly as privacy-destroying as your real name, location, office number, home phone number, e-mail address, etc. These fields have been in Linux since the beginning and, like birthDate will be, are typically left blank and ignored.
If you wanted to throw on your tinfoil hat you could ask ‘Well what if, in the future, some bad guy forced you to actually put your REAL NAME in the realName field?’ That’s basically what is happening in this thread, in addition to brigading a lynch mob on a systemd developer.