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Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism - Europe Pub

>Dylan M. Taylor is not a household name in the Linux world. At least, he wasn’t until recently. > >The software engineer and longtime open source contributor has quietly built a respectable track record over the years: writing Python code for the Arch Linux installer, maintaining packages for NixOS, and contributing CI/CD pipelines to various FOSS projects. > >But a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight, along with a wave of intense debate. > >At the center of the controversy is a seemingly simple addition Dylan made: an optional birthDate field in systemd’s user database.

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Vogi 6d ago

Being on Linux and in control of your OS couldn’t you just set the age statically to something like 99? I really do not understand the hate :/

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panda_abyss 6d ago

It’s optional. You can leave it blank.

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Maât 5d ago

@panda_abyss @vogi until it's not... See how it turns on Apple's devices.
To do the same thing on Linux you need a handful of people in 4-5 strategic projects, systems being the first of them because through it you can enforce things on so many distros in one move...

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Maât

@panda_abyss @vogi it's easy to pay people to become contributors to these projects. Unless you are planning on years to let them become maintainers, the tricky part is to make maintainers accept the dangerous contributions -> convince them it's for « greater good », or pay the price for their soul or constrain/blackmail them.