clonedhuman
It's FOSSA systemd fork has set out as a fu*k you to age verification.
https://itsfoss.com/news/systemd-fork-strips-out-age-verification/
jxvvt@itsfoss the headline is misleading, systemd did not add age verificiation support: https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_473
spacebug@clonedhuman @jxvvt @itsfoss they already have your real name, email, room number and phone number, so why not also bithdate?
Ah and of course you can just not put any data into those fields just as it is today 🤷🏼♂️😁
Ah and of course you can just not put any data into those fields just as it is today 🤷🏼♂️😁
draeath@clonedhuman @jxvvt @itsfoss I'd bet that because user sessions are handled by logind, and that is a natural place to keep data about the user.
zetabeta@jxvvt @itsfoss
this is slightly more complicated.
one uploader did introduce a age patch, and it got approved,
systemd reverted those changes.
itsfoss should do better reporting though.
my disclaimer: age verification is still a bad idea.
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/
The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.
Spirit
Chris Goss@jxvvt Respectfully, that is incorrect. The latest PR to revert the addition of DOB field was blocked by Poettering and locked while he hides behind the corporate fig leaf of 'still deciding'. Still deciding, while the hated functionality is being added by his minions.
While on the subject, Canonical has a flurry of PR's merging compliance in advance with these surveillance laws whilst spokespersons from Canonical deny it's their devs and also hide behide the corporate fig leaf of 'still deciding' as the functionality is merged anyway.
It's quite clear the giant US defence contractor known as IBM/Redhat is leading and Canonical is capitulating .. as usual.
* Poettering is technically employed by M$ these days but he is deeply associated with IBM/Redhat.
The gallant knight@itsfoss so they're going to maintain that fork or is this just for show? What a shit show.
D2
Lilaizen
Thinkb4u@itsfoss Let’s see how fast someone secretly associated with M$ or Meta etc will try to commit a malware functionality to defame it.
deutrino@itsfoss yeah great, I think the correct response however is to start the arduous process of migrating away from systemd-only distros, because this most recent debacle has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that it is in fact cancer
Softwarewolf
Bongmaster@itsfoss damn fucking right.