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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
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this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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... unless someone merges a PR making it required, which is the discussion of this thread.
What if someone makes a PR making your real name and address being required? Damn...
So you're arguing that systemd shouldn't have reverted that pointless PR because it's not actually enforced? Sorry, I'm probably not understanding your comment
You're right.
"What if <insert dystopian scenario that hasn't happened>?" is a silly argument.
And then you can input a random date from before 1940 and forget about it...