Lucas de Sena @seninha@bsd.network

Brazil's authoritarian age verification law became active this month. It won't be implemented by GrapheneOS. Complying would require integrating a mandatory process for each user where a third party service checks government identification and confirms a match using the camera.

I nerd sniped myself and wrote a monster article doing a code commentary of /etc/rc from #OpenBSD 7.8: https://overeducated-redneck.net/blurgh/openbsd-init-system.html

I learned a ton of my base sysadmin skills from studying init(8), and decided to produce a modern version of that (I learned in the 90s).

Also, I have armored my webserver against all bots, and fedi is the only place I syndicate. Boosts are appreciated.

#sysadmin #runbsd

I saw the quote on my feed a month ago or so but lost the link. I had to make it a hazard sign...

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

The lasting damage was knowing it could happen at all: that a single contributor with no stated organizational backing could submit compliance infrastructure for surveillance law directly into the software that boots your computer, get it merged by two Microsoft employees, and have the creator of systemd personally block the removal.

Signal Boost: If you are willing to fix any of the #Wayland related issues I describe in https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/, I am willing to sponsor the hardware you need for it, e.g. high-res monitor, GPU, PC, etc. and/or pay a bounty for the fix itself.

See https://lobste.rs/s/5pkjai/wayland_set_linux_desktop_back_by_10_years#c_4cpf8q for details and reach out; thanks in advance.

My goal is that #Linux works better, but I can’t do it alone. Let’s improve it together!

how about instead of everyone does this shit you let them make linux illegal in california and see how quick the tech ceos show up at evil ken doll gavin newsom's chateau to get this shit reversed

Imagine living through the 2020's rise of fascism and surveillance, looking at the OS age signal API and going "well this thing, in isolation, is not so bad, I think people are overreacting"

Ok yeah great the thing that could easily be weaponized further isn't so bad yet when viewed in isolation. I'm so glad the last 20 times people were concerned about similar slippery slopes nothing bad at all happened in the long term!

Holly rotted beans... my 10 lines of ksh is now a 163 lines of C that literally outputs nothing but 5 compilation warnings. How can people use this thing... Now I remember why I don't dev...

Wow the BBC technology page is full of the wonderful ways exciting technology is helping us as a society.

considering that gnome just deprecated X11, i have a weird feeling that my life is about to get even harder and more painful, unless I choose to conform to one of the mainstream ideal linux GUIs

wayland will be the thing which finally kills all the small WMs that still remain. I consider that to be a cultural disaster.

yt comment:

> Remember: The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by a LLM right now.