This seems to be Linux's Microslop. Not only did they add it to Systemd, they banned users on Reddit for just talking about it. I laughed when Microsoft banned users for using the term Microslop. Not so funny now, I guess.
This is where systemd will become what xz damn near did.
To xz author credit, he bite the bullet and did the work to undue the rogue maintainer's damage.
Dude doesn't wear a cape, but he could totally get away with it!
6yo: Hey that guy is naked except for a cape and platform stiletto heels!
mother: Yeah that's the xz author. He could get away with anything at this point and the world would cheer
Thanks you for putting the proper context of that. I'm only new to that particular event. I do remember a while back with something something regarding xz and recently, middle of last week, saw the video from Veritasium elaborate upon it a bit. I rare follow title like that but they got me on another one of their vidoe and after my usual roller coast vision into it, I was well and impressed but the way they took it to a meaningful development in logic itself. So seeing them post about this it bit and was floored by how much I appreciate the way the describe all the important concepts that are so difficult to talk to fucking anyone that isn't already a coder. Then, even, it's one way or the other. I don't get too much into software development but I do study culture of it for my true project. RMS philosophy establishes the important basis for computer use but he misses all the basic structure I work for off what I need to establish for what I'm working towards Nothing wrong with that. I'm just trying to say that I respect the show speaking of, toward, and with part of logic of that is an important part of what I am studying.
The product of those who produce open source, especially FOSS, is fundamental logic for living toward a real world worth living in. It's more than just about computers. I am working with working with computers to study how to say what they said about that and translate that to what we're missing on the other part I was handed to before I understood the relationship of the particular subject I'm focused towards in active cognitive. Even that has only recently focus into something I can see in a wholeness sense. not that I do even begin to describe it. Blah, blah, blah. Communication has only recently been developed to the capability beyond allusion. That latter was achieved by kharma, like a gift but not "earned" but given by enduring a lot of "suffering" that I chose and learned from without questioning myself in my choice beyond doing so just to verify my logic. Which I do do, like doo doo.
Anyway...yeah. This stuff is important to me, certainly. I like to read well described attributes of such. Thanks for that.
First step is don't watch videos. Read the article that explains the xz hack in detail.
Watching a video the details fly by too quickly. Takes time for our mind to wrap around how the hack works. You are not going to get that by watching a video.
If your foretay is philosophy, please redirect ur efforts to write a license which charges|excludes those jurisdictions and collaborators who facilitate these erosion of our rights. They always have an excuse. And we can always pull out really high numbers, e.g. usd$5T/day
After that, i'll make you famous by including it into a python package that is fundamental to Python (serious not Mickey Mouse like Django) database and web site development.
This is all wrong to me, schools and parents should educate their kids and take interest in what they are doing online, it shouldnt be forced by the government.
But it's not about protecting the children. It's about user tracking and control.
It's about censoring their protecting (their rights to kidnap and rape) your children.
I just got 7 days for saying as much back on this origin's parasite feeder squawking color box.
Would it be possible to add a layer on top that shows you when an app requests it, and shows you a checkbox about what you want it to report? Or just block the call as not supported.
Faking it to be child (or just random with each request) until you need a higher number could mess up with advertisers and in general fingerprinting.
Googoo gaga sudo apt remove systemd*
Whoopsie-doodles...
I think it is accessed through xdg-protal, and the usage tracking and permission etc. likely happen at that layer.
The xdg-desktop-portal project is adding an age verification portal (flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#1922) that needs a data source for the user's age. userdb already stores personal metadata (emailAddress, realName, location) so birthDate is a natural fit.
They add a field you can add a date to if you want. Seems reasonable
Seems like we should find out who wrote that commit and put a name to it. Then look at any other commits he has ever made and treat those the same way we do malware.
He shouldn't be a coder anymore. Ask his coworkers or neighbors, as a supporter of the Epstein government, has courts ordered he wear an ankle monitor to keep him far far away from any children or a keyboard?
Oof, I might have to figure out another distro that doesn't use Systemd, given that it is very common to find on most Linux distros. I wonder if I will jump into the deep end and use FreeBSD or perhaps learning NixOS to declare the banishment of Systemd from my system.
Likely the easiest course of action will be forking systemd. At least we can also stop the AI slop the main contributor also likes, rewrite it in some more maintainable language (not necessarily Rust - languages more close to C like D or C3 could ease porting and make C devs happier), etc.
I know this isn't the point of your comment, but you're using "jump the shark" wrong.
NixOS is very tightly coupled to systemd, though there are efforts to change that
California.... Are we already ignoring Brazil, for example? Or the fact that the rest of the U.S., Europe, Canada, etc., are pursuing these same plans as well?
It is being forced by Meta of all things, so...
Now I am wondering how many distros will use another init after this.