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

• silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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    • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They don’t publish an OS so they have no obligation to do anything more, actual implementation would have to happen in other projects

      Why are the people who decide on changes to systemd implementing stuff that the vast majority of Linux users vehemently reject?

      What this is, is a spite-fork

      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.

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      • RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        the vast majority of Linux users vehemently reject?

        I think you vastly over estimate the importance of the reddit/lemmy-sphere freaking out over this.

        And the more insane the slippery slopes you imagine skiing down, the less seriously you’re taken. The fact that there isn’t a serious programmer making a fork and instead y’all promoted a slopfork from someone who didn’t read the docs, should be a wakeup call for how unserious y’all are.

        If it’s the vast majority of Linux users, how come there was not one that’s read the systemd docs?

        I honestly don’t care that much about the law eitherway but the hyperventilating over a milktoast law is something else, it makes me think maybe we should age gate higher.

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