Will you still say that when they implement ID checking functionality?
Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
None of the id fields in the systemd db are required to be filled. This is useless. Simply don’t put any personal info in, and bam, you’re already liberated, from laws that aren’t even in effect yet!
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Will you still say that when aliens from the 19th Dimension verify your age rectally?
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
I don’t know what this derailment is ultimately trying to say honestly.
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 12 hours 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
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 hours ago
Obviously not, that would be something very very different than what they’ve done.
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
What systemd has done is the following: They went “we speak for the distros utilizing our program now”
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 hours 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.
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
when that happens, I’ll build my own ISO with that part stripped out, or just move away from systemd
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Yupp 100% optional.
for now
GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 10 hours 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.
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Finally someone who’s read into the issue