Not strictly Linux…
But after reading about SystemD I realised that TempleOS would fall under the laws but there’s no way in hell that’s getting updated. There’s gotta be some amazing way to troll the lawmakers with this.
“Does anyone else find it weird that all the Linux users were born on Jan 1st, 1970?”
Huh! Never thought about that. I too was born on January 1st 1970
On Steam, in am often 126 years old.
there is no way on hell, but there may be a way in heaven
“You wouldn’t ask to put age verification on a Bible would you mister representative?”
If those people actually read the bible, they would never let a child near it.
If they actually read the Bible, they would never
let a child near itgo near a child.ftfy
I don’t think the bible cures pedophilia.
Well of course it doesn’t, God does.
Depends on the velocity of the bible.
Yeah, and I’d say it’s a bit questionable whether California even has jurisdiction over revelations from God himself.
Also, I don’t think it does networking and app stores 😄
there is a networking module in the Shrine fork. i think its internal name is “heretic” as it is against god’s will.
TempleOS would fall under the laws
So would DOS and Windows 95, but those haven’t had any updates in a couple years. Surely they’ll be updated to comply.
FreeDOS’ latest version is from 2025. Guess they would be required to comply. They don’t even have user accounts…
I’m still super impressed by homie doing this all on his own. Rest in power homie, wish you sought out professional help.
I’m getting to old for this age verification bullshit.
Let me guess, you’re 2147483647
It’s a bit hard for him to comply. Why, you ask? Well, for starter, he’s dead.
SystemD is only adding the possibility to store an age for the user, and the PR is being debated still
Why would a glorified scheduling service need to store my birthday? Or age. Am I soon supposed to show/store my ID to all services running on my computer?
An equally valid question is why does a glorified scheduling service want to act as my UEFI boot manager?
I think the point people are making here is why does systemd need to store an age for the user.
It can already store location data and other random metadata
Define “location data”.
Systemd stores location data for unit files, it does not store geo lookup data. Again, why does systemd need to store user age?
It can store your location data (i.e City/Address), because this service is specifically a user database. The systemd init isn’t storing your age anytime son.
this new anti-systemd sentiment reminds me of anti-TPM and anti-SecureBoot sentiment
having TPMs and SecureBoot on Linux machines has only ever empowered device owners to ensure that the software on their devices has not been tampered with
there’s never been a case where these technologies were used against Linux device owners
likewise, I predict that Linux device owners may find the age field useful for certain opt-in parental controls, but we’ll otherwise look back on this and shrug at the extreme paranoia
