Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer . . . Dylan revealed that he faced harassment, doxxing, death threats, and a flood of hate mail He was forced to disable issues and pull request tabs across his GitHub repositories He has shared his opinions in a blog post that the change is not "age verification": A common misconception about this change is that it introduces "age verification" to
SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification . . . SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling (itsfoss com) 102 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 28, 2026 @06:34PM from the init-to-win-it dept
SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification . . . 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