Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism
https://europe.pub/post/10762385
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.
Y’all are going after this guy rn but in a few months we should expect more and more distros to do changes like this. So lets think, what is the real issue going on here? The real issue is that these distros are hosted on GitHub, which is a Microsoft company, and they will comply in a heartbeat and take that shit down if the software is against the law. So the two options are to move off Github or wait until it gets taken down, and lawyer up and fight California and Colorado, which if so, we’d better start a fund as a community for some lawyers for these devs.
What fucking distro would make this change besides redhat?
Debian, Ubuntu, most of their derivatives except the niche ones, Arch, Endeavor, Manjaro, Fedora. Basically all major ones.
Mark my words.
Lol wit. No. Debian, arch, and Fedora are Foss projects. They have no reason to folloa the whims of these stupid laws.
They can just move the code to Iceland or whatever. It’s easy.
If they don’t implement they won’t be able to access any site with restricted material.
No major website will willingly exclude California.
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