LinuxPlease keep the discussion polite, and don't get too much carried away into trying to convince others of your own ideas. Exchange is less than that. And sometimes, less is more. Thanks in advance.
less is more.
alias less=more
My contrarianism is vindicated!
01/01/1970 about to be a real popular birthdate.
Imagine being that poor motherfucker born 1 jan 1970. No one will ever believe you, and you cannot get your json file.
Pottering is in there saying he doesn't care enough about this, practicing whataboutism, and asking Claude to review the code for him. gg Pottering.
It's funny seeing the few people who came in and started evangelizing about it get muted and booted, they completely deserve to be ignored and mocked alongside anyone bitching about this PR here.
Nothing about this looks bad, they are putting an optional dob right next to an already optional full name and email. People are losing their mind about it when an even more intrusive piece of data already exists in the same place. Idk about any of you losers, but I can't think of any time I've been asked to provide my actual name or email on a systemd machine. Maybe some optional field from a distro installer that the distro decided to ask for, not systemd itself. Their only concern with this is giving it a place of live that's appropriately secure, but you'd think they were the bad guys reading people yapping about it.
As soon as this actually becomes a thing I'm setting it to April 1st year zero like everyone else with a functioning brain will and not crying about it in a PR like some no-life activist.
There's a big difference. Name and email fields were agreed upon by the community itself because they might be useful. This is not decided by the community, it's enforced. What if the law asked for a mandatory "skin colour" field? Yeah no problem, right? let's comply, after all we can put any colour we like there.
But we must look not just at what's happening now, we must look at what happens later. What if the next law enforces actual 3rd-party age verification? "It shouldn't be a problem for you Linux people, you already have an API in place after all".
Blaming software for COMPLIANCE with the law is STUPID, people. I expected some of you would be more intelligent.
Sorry but that's a stupid comment. What are you, 5 years old not to know how many countries pushed one "law without any real consequence" after another, until people suddenly wondered "how did we get in this hell"? And how many battles the people behind "software" have battled against unjust situations?
Coding has been ruled as free speech. Forcing this into code is no different imho than being forced to say Trump is the greatest and I love him!! anytime you wanted to speak.
I'd be fascinated to see how the US would be if it were completely legal to do basically anything as long as it was triggered through code.
I hope no one of them uses steam or visits adult websites that makes them enter their birthdate or tick "Are you 18+/21+?" checkboxes. So much spyware on the web that is impossible to circumvent, my god
I'm sure many trackers and indicators can already figure out your date of birth depending on which web services you've used
Another patch should be added to rename "Systemd" into "Surveillanced".
The corresponding surveillancectl would go well with it lol
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues
Seems there is a bug in the code.
We should make sure they are aware.
It's time to fork. Not github please. Anyone who's had approved contributions to it or something closely related can take over systemd. systemfd?
