Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff?

• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah there was some back and forth. It got approved by someone from Microsoft then unapproved by Lennart Poettering. Basically temporary kerfluffle. There’s a writeup from yesterday, I think this: itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/

  There’s now an unpopulated field to hold a birthdate but it’s not being used by anything. I guess that is sub-optimal though. This kind of thing if it’s to exist at all should be on individual user accounts, not anything system-wide.

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  • Deebster@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    then unapproved by Lennart Poettering

    No, you’ve misunderstood, here is a quote from your own source:

    A merge request asking for this change to be repealed was struck down by Lennart

    It was a reversion that Poettering rejected, the PR stands.

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    • solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hmm ok, maybe you could write up a quick summary. Yes it’s possible that I mis-read it. I thought that LP had rejected the PR. Thanks.

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  • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    UserDB does hold data connected to individual user accounts

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