The self-important creator of Systemd has personally blocked that PR, if I’m hearing correctly, which would suggest he or his employer Microsoft is all in on it.
It’s an optional field in the userdb JSON object. It’s not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it’s standardized iff people want to store the date there, but it’s entirely optional.
“I’m not picking a side” and “this future proofs standardization” is of little comfort. This is seriously suspect and now I have to look for alternatives to SystemD(odgetheissue).
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
The self-important creator of Systemd has personally blocked that PR, if I’m hearing correctly, which would suggest he or his employer Microsoft is all in on it.
portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Ugh of course. Thanks for pointing that out
tabular@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
“I’m not picking a side” and “this future proofs standardization” is of little comfort. This is seriously suspect and now I have to look for alternatives to SystemD(odgetheissue).
portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Maybe agelesslinux.org or systemd free distro without-systemd.org/…/Linux_distributions_without…
njordomir@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
So in other words, “Sure we built the people-crushing machines, but we didn’t wire them up or turn them on.”
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
SystemDOGE. It is just a matter of time before Big Balls exfiltrates our Linux data.
4am@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
He left MS in January