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SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling
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SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling
It's FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But "a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight" after he'd added the optional birthDate field for systemd's user database. Critics saw it not merely as a technical addition, but as a symbolic capitulation to government overreach. A crack in the philo…
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