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

• RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Zos_Kia@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨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

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      • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Being prompted to submit an ID is not useful for making decisions in the here and now? As far as I understand it, this is the concrete danger. California lawmakers and lawmakers from elsewhere have indicated that this is only the beginning.

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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      • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No, what they have done is kowtowing.

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• yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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