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AB-1043 “Age verification signals: software applications and online services.”
Text https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
Other info https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
California AB 1043 signed. Mandatory os-level, device-level, app store, and even developer-required age verification for all computing devices.
Edit: altered title from “ID check” to “Age Verification check”


Fuck that. If Debian includes that, I’ll just rip it out myself.
It’ll be
systemd-agecheck, good luck.Just use the normal procedure for switching to sysvinit (or openrc) + elogind. Easy to perform if you still have your install media.
On Debian?? That’s news to me.
It’s actually well-documented in their wiki (yeah, I know, it’s 2025 people don’t read that because it’s not Discord and that shit). Tho i recommend adding Antix’s
nosystemdrepo if you do that on systems that are not Sid, because the packaging of some important high-level tools is stupidly tied to systemd for some weird reason (NetworkManager being a good example) and the upstreams refuse to unfuck it (which is as simple as restoring the init script those upstreams already used to have).Intentional hard-linking.
I went gentoo once debian forced systemd on its users, i wasn’t aware they sorta backtracked, nice to know.
Slackware and Devuan fill my other needs so i have no plans to go back to Debian.