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

• 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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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What? It’s like saying systemd is handing the government your info because they have a field for your real name and address.

      YOU control what info goes there, if any. It mandates NOTHING.

      You may as well be mad at vim because you text editor is capable of storing your birthdate if you go in and type it and save it to /public/myInfo.txt

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      • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Context matters. Systemd did this as a reaction to frankly insane laws. They didn’t have to do anything like this, yet they did and comparing this to changing and creating files manually in vim misses the point entirely. Intentionally doing something is very different from a feature being natively present.

        YOU control what info goes there, if any. It mandates NOTHING.

        Until closed source or even open source programs demand an ID verified age from the OS. When that happens you are forced to unmask yourself and the systemd shit is the first step to making such an API possible. It normalizes genuinely insane demands that add nothing for the users except compliance.

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