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GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah there was some drama about it.

https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

This blog explains the situation but also attacks the developer that did it and I do not think he is to blame here.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

that isnt age verification though, it is not verifying the age; its just asking the user to input their age, something websites and apps have been doing for ages

[–] endlesseden@pyfedi.deep-rose.org 3 points 1 week ago

That's the first step to it. SystemD doesn't need to store any private data like that. Like most changes, if it's done in stages, instead of all at once. It's much harder to revert...

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah fair