Comment on Systemd Introduces Birth Date Support for Upcoming Linux Desktop Age Controls

over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why is it a disgrace? Systemd is open source; you can fork it to ignore the field, or hard-code the value if you want.

  This lets OS vendors/developers distribute Linux Oses that want to support this in countries that demand it, after which anyone can modify it however they want.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah that sounds fun, read through a million lines of code to tweak a few constants and variables, because you can’t access the internet anymore to research the code before you fix the code yourself?

    What’s the end game here?

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    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s…

      That’s how open source software works

      Somebody noticed their boot time was very slightly longer so they read through a million lines of code and found the zx exploit.

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        True, but I don’t exactly have a spare system to experiment with like that, and I ain’t about to mess with my stable Linux Mint laptop all that much.

        Though agelesslinux definitely seems like a fair game tweak script…

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    • chisel@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How did you obtain your linux install media without internet? And why did you choose one that doesn’t already have it disabled? And why would you ever put your real dob into it?

      End game is to keep systemd OSes legal, even in stupid countries.

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I obtained my Linux install media before this shit came into question. My current daily laptop runner is Linux Mint MATE 20.3 Una.

        I don’t exactly reinstall or update every time updates come out, I wait and see…

        And yes, my distro uses systemd, but I ain’t about to update what works for me until I sort out the fallout of all this shit.

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