Post #831335
2026-03-26 14:50 UTC
:neocat_laptop_notice: Can't wait to make a single-line change to yeet age verification out of systemd :systemd:
:nixos: NixOS go brrrr :neocat_happy:
@abmurrow https://hachyderm.io/@abmurrow/116295991808267021
And no, birthday info shouldn't be in there in the first place. And it doesn't belong in any desktop portal either, for that matter;
If you insist on that, have some parental control software with its own config.
Normal desktop Linux shouldn't have that.
Replies (2)
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@abmurrow@hachyderm.io 2026-03-26 14:59
@tanja I know right? This system continues to surprise me every day! And totally agreed on the age verification laws. Talking to people and implementing moderation tools by hand are (to my mind) generally going to be better than getting some legal mechanism involved. Still wild to me that systemd preempted this decision with like no discussion.
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@jstsmthrgk@social.jstsmthrgk.eu 2026-03-26 16:24
@tanja I feel like just patching upstream systemd with the revert commit would be better than making a fork? (Not like NixOS doesn't already have lots of patches in there.) Maybe I'll make a nice nixpkgs overlay for that in the next few days.