Mastodawn

I legitimately don't see why people are mad about the "user account has an attribute that applications can query" style of age gating api? that provides no more information than you'd be able to get from an "enter your age" prompt, and is just as easy to fill in with nonsense. this makes it mostly useless, of course, but not really actively harmful to anyone as far as I can tell

calling systemd fascist for implementing it is a hell of a stretch, but I suppose that word has become diluted to mean "anything that makes multiple leftists mad"

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Yuri Brainwashing Co.

@emily the main issue, i would think, is that the legislation that motivated the change was designed as a wedge to push out smaller companies and benefit apple and other privacy-invading tech giants. https://agelesslinux.org/ provides a decent overview under the header reading "the quiet part"

Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

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emily, blinkenlight witch 9h ago

@yuri_brainwashing_co certainly, the bill itself is both a terrible idea and some sort of regulatory capture attempt, I need no convincing there

I do not see why people are attacking systemd specifically, for what seems to me to be ~malicious compliance ("we provided a field and an interface to set it, that is all you asked for and that is all we did")

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Yuri Brainwashing Co.46m ago

@emily i more or less agree, but i do get the concerns that "malicious compliance" is still a type of compliance, and a bunch of people would rather the approach be "fuck you make me", given that this basically makes the standard be that all tech infrastructure everywhere has to be compliant with standards made up in one U.S. state and legislation made by google. its not egregious on its own, but its still giving ground. but i mean i just sell porn online i dont know anything about gradual erosions of freedoms on web infrastructure