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Systemd adds age verification (github.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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Not to mention that they locked the unpopular pull request from reactions.

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[+] -7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So it's the legistlation's fault again, why aren't you mad at them, why only systemd? In other jurisdictions you don't have to use this field. And I don't see anything in the PR about the verifability of the date. It's just an optional number it stores in a db, offline.

Programmers have to become lawyers now?

Also a lot other projects has a birthday field, e.g. last time I worked with was LDAP: https://ldapwiki.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Birthdate I guess it's there since the 90s.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The hell are you on about? People can, and are, upset about both. That said, changing a piece of software is monumentally easier than changing laws when you're up against an entire industry lobbying against your interests.

    That's why you see the focus on the software.

    Systemd refusing and telling CA to figure it the fuck out would have been one of the strongest counters to this bullshit currently available, and that option was just thrown in the fucking garbage. Of course people are going to be mad at systemd.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    That whatever happens the problem is always systemd. Chain of events:

    • voters vote for corrupt politician
    • big tech compaies bribe said politician to have shitty law
    • freedesktop requests systemd for backend to comply with said law
    • systemd just adds the field to the userdb

    Who is to blame for all of this? Poettering who else...

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Why aren't coders the only people allowed to be lawyers instead of these political activist clowns?

    The only people who are remotely qualified to be my peers, to have the honour of being in the same room as me, are published package authors.

    So yes, coders are more qualified to be lawyers than lawyers.

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