Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 21 hours agoHowever, once this field exists, it enables later reference and/or mandatory dependencies
Yeah, this is a devious plan that has been going on for years, when they added the realName field!
Fjdybank@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
I get it, but I believe it to be a false equivalence. This change is not happening in isolation. There is currently a general trend towards de-anonymising users, and this DOB field is a step in that direction.
The only real question is, do I want my computer storing more, or less, personally identifying information. Given that I don’t trust the intended use, or ANY use which is later enabled by this, my answer is ‘less’.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
So, how about we start freaking out when someone starts making these fields required, instead of right away?
WraithGear@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
because it’s too late at that point, which is the whole point and issue!
if the field is necessary, but the data is useless, then it shouldn’t be there. if the data becomes required then it should be there. so the result, it should not be there
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
A PR is when the discussion is supposed to happen. It’s an open source project, nothing happens “too late” to discuss. You see that change in the pull request, you can start moaning about it.
Who defines what’s “useless”? You? On what authority?