Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field

https://lemmy.nz/post/35765225

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field - Lemmy NZ

Lemmy

An init system does not need to know my personal details; it’s for starting programs in a specific order just fuck off with this shit. You don’t even have to capitulate to this stuff and these freaks are out here doing it preemptively like they expect a fucking pat on the head for being first in line to dive tongue first on to that boot.
Systemd isn’t an init system. Systemd-init is an init system and it is a part of the systemd suite.
Whatever the fuck it is it doesn’t need to know how old I am to do its job.
It doesn’t need to know your age. It just provides a way to take a note of your birth date, only if you want to. The system already has a place to write your name and home address. All are optional and practically nobody uses them.
I find it suspicious how it’s mostly new, few days old users defending this shit. Fuck off bot, go suck your master’s cock.
It doesn’t know how old are you, it just remembers a date you tell it. You can give your birthday, but you can choose any other day

This is step 1.

Final step: Scan your passport to verify and populate the date of birth field.

It already has fields for personal information, though, and they’re every bit as sensitive as your birthdate. realName, emailAddress, location, and timezone are already in there. The important part is that they’re all optional, and you don’t have to fill them in at all, or can fill them in with fake data. The system still serves you, not some outside party.

But the timing of it does have a lot of people freaking out about it.

I now fear it will one day be required for services on the internet (as it is by a rescent law in Calafornia). I want to make that less uikely, and more difficult to implement.

Having a principle the majority do not have and refusing to participate means being another step further out of society.

“I’ve already raped your mouth. Rapping your ass is not gonna be any worse”
And it still doesn’t, the blank space does not need to be filled
…until it becomes a requirement to be filled.
And then one can simply remove the requirement for it to be filled, because it’s open source software.