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

• silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Zos_Kia@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨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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      • Zos_Kia@jlai.lu ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But this is just speculation. The fact is, systemd introduced a new optional field in the local database. They don’t publish an OS so they have no obligation to do anything more, actual implementation would have to happen in other projects.

        What this is, is a spite-fork by some random AI researcher and anybody installing that on their system has way larger problems here and now than hypothetical ID verification in the maybe future.

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