Systemd preparing to comply with age verification laws
2026-03-18 01:54 UTC
Replies (16)
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@njordomir@lemmy.world 2026-03-18 02:54
That’s it! >:-( I’m going back to init. /s
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@chrash0@lemmy.world 2026-03-18 03:02
The answer to the PII issues is hence not restrictions in userdb, the answer is proper app sandboxing. And that even already exists in flatpak! It restricts access to $HOME already, and to userdb too! And that’s the way to do it! Hence, just embrace app sandboxing! And if you come to me and say “hey, I run all my apps without sandboxing, but i want the birthday hidden anyway” then I can only say, your model is really really broken. Fix your security model first, then come back.
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@db2@lemmy.world 2026-03-18 03:27
The answer to the PII issues is hence not restrictions in userdb, the answer is proper app sandboxing. And that even already exists in flatpak! It restricts access to $HOME already, and to userdb too! And that’s the way to do it! I don’t use flatpak. I don’t like it. Linux is about choice and I choose not to use that. Hence, just embrace app sandboxing! And if you come to me and say “hey, I run all my apps without sandboxing, but i want the birthday hidden anyway” then I can only say, your model is really really broken. Fix your security model first, then come back. In the words of the great Linus Torvalds, go fuck yourself.
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@DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2026-03-18 05:35
This snippet can also be used for a init system: for script in $(find /etc/init.d); do exec $script done But if you don’t want to do that, there’s also OpenRC, runit and so on.
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@PolarPirate@lemmy.zip 2026-03-18 05:42
Damn that’s crazy. It’d be a shame if someone not beholden to California law just forked the code
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@pglpm@lemmy.ca 2026-03-18 05:52
Something feels fishy… The user who made this pull request has more than doubled his contributions to various repositories since January, and this is his first pull request in the systemd repo.
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@filister@lemmy.world 2026-03-18 06:33
Why do they need the age after all. What are authorities going to do with it?
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@Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 2026-03-18 07:20
They want to store the actual birthdays (not just a boolean stating it complies with an age bracket). And using claude to review PRs… fucking systemd
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@brax@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-18 09:08
Just write a shell script that changes the birthday every few minutes lol
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@AllAroundNerd42@lemmy.today 2026-03-18 09:15
So what? I am (g)root.
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@mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2026-03-19 04:14
I’m a noob when it comes to deep linux stuff. So how does this affect end users and are we at risk of leaking personal info? It looks to me they are adding a birthDate field along with other meta data. Will these metadata be sent to whatever local authorities or whatever data hoarder on the web (like Google) without user consent? I meant what stops me from listing false info like: Name: Biggus Dickus DOB: 06/09/1969 Nationality: Spartan …etc. ? I usually use systemd for stuff like hibernate/suspend, e.g. systemd suspend and if on i3wm, I edit configs for sleep and lid close in /etc/systemd/sleep.conf Are these affected too?.
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@Geki@lemmy.ml 2026-03-19 05:26
Why do the rest of us have to have this shit added in our systems just because some Yankees (and Brazil) passed some bills? My country has already said they won’t be doing any age verification shit. I’m starting to think there’s some big conspiracy here that FOSS isn’t as independent as we believe it is.
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@jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org 2026-03-19 09:58
This is all to inch us towards an eventual Digital ID, similar to how we have a driver’s license for a car.
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@EnfauKerus@lemmy.ml 2026-03-19 12:01
they also open accompanied PRs on this and I’m a little frightened github.com/canonical/…/1338 github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-03-19 16:37
This is exactly what I had in mind with my opposition to systemd. Didn’t expect to be proven right so soon.
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@MountainMan@lemmy.zip 2026-03-18 23:38
I 0man on using my McLovin ID for all this verification shit.