Liberated Systemd
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#2This does a terrible job explaining, but it seems to be in protest of age verification laws in operating systems.
The only commit is removing a user birthday field.
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#3Perhaps I wasn't paying enough attention to this fork's commits, but what is actually happening with the birth date and where does it go?
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#4The birthdate doesn't actually get sent anywhere, right?
Why would adding a field for a birthdate be "mass surveillance" anymore than having fields for email, full name, etc.?
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#5The other day someone commented on this site that in the age of agentic coding "maintaining a fork is really not that serious of and endeavor anymore." and that's probably the case. I'm sure continuously rebasing "revert birthday field" can be fully automated.
Then the only thing remaining is convincing a critical mass that development now happens over at `Jeffrey-Sardina/systemd` on GitHub.
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#6The birthdate doesn't actually get sent anywhere, right? Why would adding a field for a birthdate be "mass surveillance" anymore than having fields for email, full name, etc.?
It doesn't, and it's optional.
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#7The birthdate doesn't actually get sent anywhere, right? Why would adding a field for a birthdate be "mass surveillance" anymore than having fields for email, full name, etc.?
Because it's the first step.
“Information, once collected, will be misused.”
― Richard Stallman, How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?, 2013
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#8The birthdate doesn't actually get sent anywhere, right? Why would adding a field for a birthdate be "mass surveillance" anymore than having fields for email, full name, etc.?
Because it's the first step. “Information, once collected, will be misused.” ― Richard Stallman, How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?, 2013
So that's also for email address, username, right?
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#9Why are people worried about age bracket category (optional, defaults to "over 18") but they're not worried about remote attestation (will be mandatory to view any website)?