The Linux Age verification situation is escalating & Other Linux Weekly News

About this episode

The episode discusses the escalating age verification situation in Linux, including various responses from different organizations.

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:47 GrapheneOS won’t comply with age verification laws https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/grapheneos-refuses-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws 03:27 SystemD adds date of birth field for age verification https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/ 05:13 SystemD forked to remove date of birth field https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-fork-strips-out-age-verification/ 08:11 Fedora project lead suggests using standard Age check API https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-leader-suggests-age-verification-api/…

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Host: The Linux Experiment

Topics covered

• age verification
• Linux news
• SystemD
• GrapheneOS
• Fedora
• SteamOS

Keywords

• Linux
• age verification
• SystemD
• GrapheneOS
• Fedora
• SteamOS
• Tuxedo

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GrapheneOS, SystemD, Fedora, SteamOS

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