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The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux (www.sambent.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If anyone is panicking, ask them how they feel about the 'RealName' field that has been in systemd for years (since the beginning?)

This is fake controversy and now it's at the point where people are spreading articles, like the OP, brigading people into harassing a systemd developer.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Exactly. And that's the part that worries me most: I'm seeing people investigating the guy, shaming him (he wrote a blog about using Claude to write a game in 90 minutes, so clearly he must be evil /s), and the article above is written in such a way to insinuate all sorts of nefarious goings on, but everything I see suggests this is just normal procedure.

    I really feat this is going to hurt the community and chase good developers away.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Ask yourself if "RealName" field was added in response of a requirement that's supposed to assist with a bullshit law backed by a mega evil corp?

    No?

    Then how's it comparable?

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago

    Then how’s it comparable?

    Because they're both optional fields that have absolutely no checks on them where you're free to enter any information or none at all.

    In this hypothetical threat that you're worrying about, there is no world where birthDate gives an 'evil corporation' more data about you than your REAL NAME and LOCATION.

    Those fields have been in systemd since the beginning, have you noticed any problems related to using your Real Name and Location in your user profile... or do you simply not enter that data?

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