I would but I’ve always been opposed to systemd anyway.
But for me it’s a slippery slope I don’t think we should even get on.
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ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours agoMy line in the sand is when a distro/app starts enforcing entry of birth date data. Having a database field to store it, or even an optional prompt for it isn’t the point where I bin it.
I would but I’ve always been opposed to systemd anyway.
But for me it’s a slippery slope I don’t think we should even get on.
But for me it’s a slippery slope I don’t think we should even get on.
I agree. But the start of the slope isn’t my exit point. My exit point is just before the slope gets too steep to get off.
That’s the thing about slippery slopes. You don’t really know where the point you slip is.
Yeah I hated systemd since before it was cool to hate systemd again.
Distros will push a dob of 1970-1-1, marks my fucking words.
That’s still forcing a DOB, which is the line I won’t cross.
When you make a new user using adduser
and you leave your full name, number, and room number?
Blank is blank, epoch is functionally the same as leaving it blank.
That is a valid point. Of course it still would be rather anonymised, but it could always be a ‘frog in the pot’ type situation, where most drastic changes are introduced very slowly. My main concern at the end of the day is how much info will be required to be given to services and how much data will be actually stored. If it’s anonymised, then I don’t see much of a threat. If a service requires me to fully identify for an age check, that’s an entirely different thing, especially considering the last of Discord’s data leaks.
belazor@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
This is the most sane take I’ve read in this entire debacle. Between arguing the semantics of attestation vs verification and whether we need five hundred forks and PRs, I’m glad to read this.
The biggest mistake the original PR did was not make it more clear it’s not directly because of the laws themselves, it’s to support higher level systems that may want to or need to comply. Systemd is no more complying with any present or future laws than a keyboard manufacturer is violating the law if the user uses it to type racially motivated hate speech.