Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 hours agoWhat? 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
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.
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.