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Yes, right next to the fields for your full name and address, all of which are optional. It’s a total nothingburger.
Could someone explain to me why numerous Linux development groups are jumping on board with this bullshit? This is I think the third such post I've read that a distro or however you call it, is integrating the age check. Since when does the Linux community get on board with Big Brother????
A surprising amount of people in the open source community lean alt-right including the lead dev of systemd, some of FUTO, and others like hyprland, etc. Others like the actual dev that committed the age field code to systemd state they are apolitical but in reality are actually enabling those that want to do harm.
Because it's a legal requirement in some areas now.
But who is checking? Last I read, these laws were created in a few states as a preventative measure against potential Federal laws that could push these issues even further. I haven't heard of any enforcement plans to date or anything about how it should report, just "add age verification to operating systems."
It's not up to the systemd team to decide for you what your risk tolerance is. They're just providing a means to be compliant should you want/need it.
Anyone know the status of Chimera Linux wrt age verificarion?
January 1st, 1970
Twins!
Underrated
It’s sad because at some point, when mainstream browsers will actually rely on systemd for that, website will block you.
Given enough time and ressources, that age control will hit hard like DRM.
And then people will find another way to do what they want. Similar as they did with the internet as it started. It was not always a commercial cesspool, it started as a very nerdy space and replaced TV as a primary source of information. We can do it again. History does not show a pattern of people submitting, but a history of revolution.
The masses submit; the vast majority submits. When they start to bind it at the hardware level - when eventually a government issued ID becomes required to literally enable hardware to work, then we are all screwed. You can always make your own software but not so much make your own CPU.
Then when they need to deal with the older tech aftermarket so they pass laws prohibiting older tech, it's all fucked.
The masses submit
only for a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebellions
Why the fuzz? If the website blocks you, just upload your government issued ID to regain access and protect your privacy and anonymity online
This is the end. Everyone switch to FreeBSD.
It is the year of FreeBSD on both the desktop and the server
Not until Netcraft confirms it
LMAO, good one!
I like my popcorn with sugar instead salt.
Is the default value set to "True"?
Why would an optional field have a default value? Shouldn't it just be unset?
For... a date field?
Possibly 0 (zero) which would default to January 1, 1970.
Be aware that there are still distros out there which *doesn't * subscribe to that madness... Devuan and Artix to name just two for starters
These aren't serious. Their mission statements are nothing but childish contrariness.
E.g. Artix has a “no true Scotsman” right in their tagline about “real” init system. Only 14 year old master debaters will attempt to deny that systemd is a “real” init system with a straight face.
Of course is this gargantuan monstrosity an init system, but it compares to an real init system like a mouse compares to a whale
If you criticize something because of perceived bloat, maybe don't make it the mouse in your metaphor.
And no, it's a great init system that has all the features one wants. That's why it ended up taking over: it was the first really good init system that introduced actual dependencies and so on.
That is so true. For me, who works as a Systemadministrator, systemd is about the best thing that happened to linux in a long time! It makes my work so much easier
It took only over because it was pushed by big tech and its bootlickers
In the company I work for NO system uses Systemd and it will stay this way until someone takes my model m keyboard from my cold dead hands!
Oh my God.. I feel for this poor company after you leave. 🤣
Your conspiracy myth is wrong, and if you actually care about what's true, you can confirm what I say very easily for yourself:
Just go to the mailing list archives and forums and follow the decision making discussions of the time. E.g. Arch Linux. This will quickly and decisively convince you that “big tech” had nothing to do with it.
But you don't care about the truth, do you? You just want the comfortable position of being able to look down on all the mainstream fools.
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