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Re:Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribu... by shevy-java on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:32AM (#48715214)
> making sure you're using an unmodified government approved operating system

Will be interesting to see if this leads to more Linux systems being deployed. Then again with systemd supporting age sniffing (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954), evading this becomes harder and harder.

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Re:Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribu... by zahlman on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:55AM (#48716147)
Why would it? Such a government would just... not approve Linux, if it interfered with their objectives.
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Re:Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribu... by Klonoar on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:51AM (#48716120)
Systemd changes don’t make it harder, you control the damn OS at the source code level if you choose.
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Re:Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribu... by M95D on Monday June 29, 2026 @06:10AM (#48717211)
Theoretically, yes, but Gentoo with all their resources couldn't keep even eudev alive. How much free time does one person need to maintain a fork of the entire systemd?
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Re:Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribu... by darkwater on Monday June 29, 2026 @02:27AM (#48715562)
Evading what exactly? If the age verification is a flag sent by the OS and you are the OS administrator, you can do whatever you want.
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Re:Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribu... by LtWorf on Monday June 29, 2026 @10:20AM (#48719628)
Sure, but your device won't be able to connect to anything useful.
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Re:Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribu... by egorfine on Monday June 29, 2026 @04:28AM (#48716399)
Lennart Poettering is here to make sure Linux won't be a safe place for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572
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