First Artix made me not vulnerable to the XZ backdoor (requires systemd). Now it saves me from age verification nonsense. Even on Lemmy sentiment seems people who avoid systemd are just cranks. But every time we are right.

It saves you from what exactly? As a rational crank, surely you have an explanation.

Unless you use xdg-desktop-portal, the field that systemd added does absolutely nothing.

It’s an optional information field for user accounts, systemd doesn’t require that it is filled nor does systemd do anything to verify or check the field. User accounts also store e-mail and location and you are free to not enter that information or to enter fake information.

I don’t see the vulnerability, especially considering that you’re comparing it to an SSH vulnerability (which, it should be noted, was caught in testing and never released).

Unless you use xdg-desktop-portal, the field that systemd added does absolutely nothing.

Yet. it’s a foot-on-the-door to demand more stuff, and some distros have already shown they are going to merrily open up their arses and ours.

This is something being created in response to laws being passed by politicians, it’s not a secret plot by systemd and distro maintainers to… whatever it is that you’re implying.

This is about as scary as the realName, emailAddress or location fields. They’re completely optional and not validated in any way. You can call yourself Linus Torvalds set your e-mail address to [email protected] and your location to Mars… nothing about the system is going to check or care if you’re lying. Similarly, now you can set your birthdate to April 20th 69BC if you’d like. It doesn’t mean anything.

e: I lied, it has to be ISO 8601 compliant so anybody born before 1900 is ineligible for Linux, smh

Literally nobody: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe…

AFAICT even the oldest unverified person was born in 1900 en.iz.ru/en/node/2061564?main_click

Literally nobody: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe…

AFAICT even the oldest unverified person was born in 1900 en.iz.ru/en/node/2061564?main_click

Someone in the future may be born before 1900, we can’t know for sure.

Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the slippery slopers claim that this is just the first step, eventually they’ll make it ban anyone born before 1970, then 2036