Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

• mech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because it’s going to be a legal requirement, with fines of $7000 per affected underage user, which will instantly bankrupt the non-profits representing distros and kill off community-maintained Linux.
  Do note: The legal requirement is NOT for age verification. Only for having a field where you as the admin can enter whatever the fuck you want.

  If you don’t agree with the law, good. Neither do I. But the devs aren’t the ones to apply pressure to, here.
  They’re forced to do this to keep the lights on, and they’ve implemented it in a way that keeps you as the admin in full control.

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  • RibbidRabbid@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1. Literally no one forced them to do that yet. They just decided to get on their knees preemptively and start licking boots

    2. Open source software has maintainers all around the world. Why the fuck would the rest of the world care about this fucked up law coming from ONE state?

    Again, no one is forced to do anything. And if I was a maintainer on FOSS where I would be forced to implement something like this, I would just stop contributing to that project.

    Fuck everyone going along with this state surveillance bullshit.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      1. It takes a long while for a PR to make it into the distros. The law goes into effect in less than a year.

      2. The organization distributing donations to the various distros (Software In The Public Interest) sits in the US and needs to follow US law in order to not be shut down.
         Without them, Debian, Arch, LibreOffice, Systemd and dozens of others have no more funding.

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  • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why doesn’t Debian do it instead of systemd? Let the distros decide on the plan of action, this is clearly not something that systemd has to decide. The people maintaining systemd are leveraging the fact that their shite software runs on more than 95% of Linux machines. What is weird too is compliance ahead of time. Compliance ahead of time makes sense with cars, but software can be updated immediately when necessary.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Debian takes the source code from upstream systemd and creates their own deb package. They’re free to leave out the date field.

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like a reason to start a riot.

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