I don’t care if there is a package called gnome-age-verification distributed in my linux distro and would prefer it if it means fewer sites with facial biometric tests. If I have concerns about the age verification, then I should be able to type:

sudo dnf remove gnome-age-verification

California probably wants it in linux distros so that linux can’t be a justification for big tech still demanding Orwellian stuff in every website (ie “but what about the children who use linux? we need to protect them with Persona too!”)

But where would it stop? The hell version of this would be kernel-level-approved-AI-agent-checks, with an OS required to have an approved AI agent with a validated third party key that reports to the government with required telemetry and the kernel makes sure the OS won’t run without the approved AI and then makes illegal any scripts for unapproved kernel code modification. And post-Tornado cash, we know code is unfortunately not protected US speech.

There are a lot of Windows viruses and I’m not sure of the default permissions for wine and how much wine puts things in a container. Would it be easy for a Windows virus to escape WINE?

Why do you think it’s a psyop?

Some of this is vague. Is there a reason you aren’t sharing the name of the DLL or the software involved? I can’t tell if you downloaded a program that was infected and used the program in WINE or if you are saying WINE itself was infected.

Is this an account that’s an alt account and you’re normally a poster or are you a lurker? It’s really unusual to have only 1 post on lemmy.

If this is real, can you please post the name of the DLL? I am also surprised you aren’t spending more time trying to get your data back. Unless they wiped it many times, data is often recoverable, and sometimes even if it’s wiped several times. That’s what I’d be prioritizing getting back. Do you not have any other backups of your files anywhere?