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This piece of software is useless and cannot be employed anywhere and it’s essentially a futile exercise in virtue-signalling.
The problem is not technical, it’s political.
Go and make some actual political activism, don’t shit out useless software.
As i get old i get more and more annoyed and this useless armchair activism. This piece of software is useless and cannot be employed anywhere and it’s essentially a futile exercise in virtue-signalling. The problem is not technical, it’s political. Go and make some actual political activism, don’t shit out useless software.
Why 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)?
I think this is the main reason why sane people are revolting against age groups, because mandatory KYC to use a locked-down Linux begins exactly with that: a small integer field in userdb.
As i get old i get more and more annoyed and this useless armchair activism. This piece of software is useless and cannot be employed anywhere and it’s essentially a futile exercise in virtue-signalling. The problem is not technical, it’s political. Go and make some actual political activism, don’t shit out useless software.
But shitting out useless software is what we do here!
Here is the changes: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/71ad73569d9a5e2588...
Wow. Literally right next to the birthday field, which is apparently a gateway to mass surveillance, is physical location, which is apparently not?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe Debian doesn't ask for a e-mail address on installation, but the username is obviously necessary if you're going to login. I leave "Users full name" empty and it's fine. The e-mail address also has a use, for important notifications. There are cases where the OS tries to send an email. But as I mentioned, I don't even know where to set it I've never been prompted and if I was I would leave it empty.
Any app that has access to your age category has access to your home directory where much juicier things live. Probably including your email address, and all your passwords.
However, 1) he is right, and 2) systemd's recent full-throated embrace of AI for programming make it clear that systemd really is in dire need of a fork. This project has gone full corporate insanity.
I was never one of the vocal anti-systemd folks (I think it's a huge improvement over SysV-style boot stuff), but the risk of this project was always the monoculture aspect. It's on approximately every Linux install, and it's going bad FAST.
I am kind of hoping systemd succeeds in adding age validation. That will probably enable distros like Slackware to fly under the radar. My only worry is Firefox, Chrome will be changed to expect this systemd validation.
As i get old i get more and more annoyed and this useless armchair activism. This piece of software is useless and cannot be employed anywhere and it’s essentially a futile exercise in virtue-signalling. The problem is not technical, it’s political. Go and make some actual political activism, don’t shit out useless software.
Ageless Linux is a similar project, but with a larger possible impact, as it has the potential to serve as a test case for overturning the law. By directly and flagrantly violating the law, it serves as a magnet for prosecution.