Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support
Fjdybank@lemmy.ca 19 hours agoI 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 17 hours ago
So, how about we start freaking out when someone starts making these fields required, instead of right away?
WraithGear@lemmy.world 14 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 13 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?
WraithGear@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
the discussion happens right now, because i said so, because others are talking about it. and the data is useless when anything can be put in, it’s not used for anything, and it can’t be verified. it fails all three tests in gushing usefulness