Matty_r

Hey all, Not long ago I shared my Artix Linux installer. I wanted to take it a little bit further (And learn some more Rust along the way), and make a companion site to make setting up the script settings even easier when wanting to run the installer - so here it is. Introducing the Lazy Web This was developed using Rust, with Actix for the backend and egui + wasm for the frontend. I had a few considerations when developing this, I wanted the encryption to occur clientside in the frontend in order to ensure your encryption password never makes it to the server. But also I wanted the decryption process to occur when the script downloads the settings. I also wanted the identifier that you use to connect and download the settings to be short and unique. The website and the script are both still a work in progress, and i’m open to suggestions/feedback.

Lazy-Artix - CodeBerg Hey all, just thought i’d share my Artix Linux installer script. I’ve wanted to give Artix a solid go, and decided to bring up my old Arch Linux install script to be used with Artix. I’m still working on it a lot and there is definitely some stuff in there that needs to be updated - but I’m pretty happy with it so far. This is written all in bash, and is to be used with the base Artix Linux OpenRC ISO. Right now i’m focusing on getting KDE up and going, and then fixing up some of the bundles that can be selected. It’s nothing special - I started it years ago for Arch before the official installer existed, and only myself and a couple others have used it so it hasn’t had a great deal of scrutiny. But anyway, just thought i’d share it. (No AI has been used, also I migrated this over from GitHub so there are a few bits and pieces left over from that) Edit: Just thought I should mention I sped up the video, the install actually took about 3 mins :)

Commit comment: After extensive community discussion, legal review and consideration of privacy implications, we have decided not to implement OS-level age attestation / age bracket signaling as initially prototyped. Reasons for revert: Privacy & freedom concerns: Introducing birth date storage or age queries (even local-only) creates a new class of sensitive user data in the OS that didn't exist before. It risks normalizing permission-like checks inside the desktop session and could be extended to far more invasive controls in the future. Open Source philosophy mismatch: Community-driven distributions (especially non-corporate ones) have neither the structure nor the desire to act as identity / age authorities. Forcing account creation or age input breaks the "just works, no account required" experience that many users value in Linux. Practical & enforcement issues: No reliable way to enforce truthful input without invasive verification (which we explicitly refuse). Minimal/local implementation still exposes users to website/app blocks if sites decide to distrust non-signaling OSes → creates a de-facto requirement anyway. Legal / jurisdictional overreach: Laws like California's AB 1043, Colorado SB 26-051 etc. appear poorly drafted for volunteer / decentralized projects. Many distributions (MidnightBSD, Ageless Linux forks, …) already chose non-compliance + geo/licensing blocks instead → precedent exists to simply not comply rather than build half-measures. No upstream consensus: freedesktop.org merge request closed after pushback. Major distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, …) either paused, rejected or never committed concrete changes. systemd PR remains draft/unmerged in many views. We may revisit if: A zero-knowledge / cryptographic age-proof standard emerges that requires no birth date storage. Courts strike down or clarify the laws to exempt small/OSS projects. A truly privacy-preserving, opt-in community consensus forms. For now: keep the system free of age-related metadata and APIs.