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

• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Again: what authority do you have to decide which data fields are useful, and which aren’t?

  How do you personally differentiate between “useful” and “useless”? Is it: “I have no need for it therefore it needs to be removed”, by any chance?

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  • WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    by your claim, the field can have any series of numbers, that there is no way to determine if it is accurate, and the law that this was done to appease is bad, as in not able to obtain its expected result. and so the data is useless.

    if some api/program/government wishes to get my information, they can ask me so that i may decline. there is no use case that these fields are a benefit to the user. and as such must be wrenched out with the fervor reserved for denying a fey creature your name.

    if the argument is that these entities can get my name by other means anyway, then this data is redundant and useless.

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      by your claim, the field can have any series of numbers, that there is no way to determine if it is accurate, and the law that this was done to appease is bad, as in not able to obtain its expected result. and so the data is useless.

      Yeah, so this tells me you have no clue what you’re actually talking about.

      You don’t even stop to think for a second that maybe some enterprise setting requires such fields. Maybe they have software that populates account information based on their HR systems’ data, auto-creating user accounts? Maybe they can find a DoB field useful? Zero clue, zero thought, just “I don’t use it, therefore it’s useless”.

      No point in continuing this discussion, I guess.

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      • WraithGear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        and they would need a birth date WHY? they would need to populate that information from here, WHY? especially since this was not brought into being because this was it’s use case, but because a state improperly demanded it, at the same time they are demanding other authoritarian surveillance over the populous right now? no i don’t think so. User name is more then sufficient

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