Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 11 hours agoI don’t know what this derailment is ultimately trying to say honestly.
Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 11 hours agoI don’t know what this derailment is ultimately trying to say honestly.
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 11 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
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 11 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.
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 10 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.
silverneedle@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Why are the people who decide on changes to systemd implementing stuff that the vast majority of Linux users vehemently reject?
No one deeply cares about the spite fork. It’s weird that commentators have suddenly become very acclimatised to the systemd changes. A few days ago people were asking themselves why a rando got through with an intensely disliked pull request and now we are here.