Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support

yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is perfectly logical and I agree. Except that this controversy has prompted me to go learn about Lennart Poettering. I’ve been using systemd forever and I like it - I like journald and remote journald, I like networkd, I even deleted cron off my systems and use systemd timers exclusively. I knew there was some controversy about Lennart, but I didn’t really care. Now that I’ve read a bit about his background and, maybe more importantly, his new company - I don’t have a good feeling for the future of systemd.

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  • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Finally someone who’s read into the issue

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• silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Will you still say that when they implement ID checking functionality?

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  • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Will you still say that when aliens from the 19th Dimension verify your age rectally?

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    • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t know what this derailment is ultimately trying to say honestly.

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      • Zos_Kia@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s saying that you can invent an infinite number of hypothetical futures but they are not useful for making decisions in the here and now

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Obviously not, that would be something very very different than what they’ve done.

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    • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What systemd has done is the following: They went “we speak for the distros utilizing our program now”

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      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What they’ve done, is in the user info field (which already has a ton of information that almost nobody ever fills out) they added a date of birth field. They do not control what it’s used for, who’s going to use it, or if the user will ever bother filling it out. Perhaps nobody will ever implement to use for it, it’s it’s really nothing.

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  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    when that happens, I’ll build my own ISO with that part stripped out, or just move away from systemd

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• Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yupp 100% optional.

  for now

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