Robert KingettI just boosted a question, but I have a slightly reworded question. Why is Linux and FOSS tripping over themselves to comply with Fascism surveillance capitalism instead of the long established international and national accessibility laws and accessibility guidelines and disability inclusion guidelines? Surely, one thing is better than the other, no? And it ain't Fascism surveillance capitalism that's the better option. #Linux #FOSS
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xrvshow comes reacting to systemd bowing to fascist laws trying to control how people use their computers get painted as being nazi? the PR clearly states that it is doing that to comply with the law requirements
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the systemd project is not accepting “AI slop”. What happened is that a documentation file for the benefit of coding agents was added to the repository
that is the very definition of accepting AI slop. not only that, it encourages sloptribution by signaling “hey, here is something that helps you use the slop machine more conveniently”
meek cynicsthe systemd project is not accepting “AI slop” [...] all contributions must be reviewed in detail by humans, and this is basically the same policy used by the Linux kernel.
@xarvos, @regendans & @WeirdWriter, so it does accept slop after all.
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must be reviewed in detail by humans
(tbf people did review it beforehand)
userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records by dylanmtaylor · Pull Request #40954 · systemd/systemd
Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc. The xdg-desktop-portal project is addi...
lbky@xarvos @WeirdWriter @regendans He's referencing the campaign by a rightwing influencer called Lunduke.
If you disagree with age verification laws, and everybody should, fight those policies. I know, complaining to developers is easier, but not helpful.
There are legitimate uses for the birthdate field (e.g. parental control), as there are for the name field, which also already exists in passwd with GECOS and which I personally find more sensitive.