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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.
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.
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.
No they haven’t, they added a field where a user can store their birthday, as required by law in parts of the US.
Or do you recommend them to ignore the law, and jeopardize the whole project? Do you want linux get banned in California? You are mad at the wrong people
Yes, I expect them to stand up for the rights of users. Why don’t you?
Literally yes. I want them to force CA and other places considering these laws to actually evaluate the cost of locking their IT infrastructure out of Linux for this. I want them to demonstrate that a relatively small area of the world can’t just change the trajectory of international open source projects at their own whim.
At this point that is by far the strongest option available to push back against this mess, and they just completely fucking trashed it in some misguided attempt to “play ball”.
Now, all the government numptys who don’t understand tech will just point to systemd and go “it wasn’t a problem for them, you’re just being difficult” when it comes to furthering their overreach.
Yes, they should in fact just state that Californian users are not allowed to use it.
Basically that’s the other option. But considering a lot of the maintainers live there, it’s just easier to comply with the stupid law until it’s reversed.
Or call their bluff.
Following clown laws legitimizes them.
Ok, who decides which law is clown and which isn’t? You? Or Sam Altman? I guess he has a different idea what laws he wants to follow. See, it’s a slippery slope you recommend.
Change your clown laws, and don’t bully projects who just wants linux to become viable alternative to common people. Don’t make perfect enemy of good.
False equivalence as privacy is a human right. Article 12 of the UN declaration of human rights.
People have the right to switch projects and criticize the actions of the developers.
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.
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.
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…
No they haven’t, they added a field where a user can store their birthday, as required by law in parts of the US.
That’s an obvious foot in the door. The law is going to get worse. And we users expect the services we’ve been trusting all this years to see that too and act accordingly in response. As long as the critiscism remains civil, it’s perfectly valid.
Do you want linux get banned in California?
There is no single Linux. Each distro should have the agency to decide for themselves how or if they want to operate in California.
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Or do you recommend them to ignore the law, and jeopardize the whole project? Do you want linux get banned in California? You are mad at the wrong people
IMHO, having Linux Foundation and the organizations behind Linux components (such as systemd) to follow the same steps that of IBM back in 1930s (similarly, IBM was just “following orders”, amirite?) wouldn’t be wise, either.
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 the shark to FreeBSD or perhaps learning NixOS to declare the banishment of Systemd from my system.
I know this isn’t the point of your comment, but you’re using “jump the shark” wrong.
Gentoo and Artix are probably the most known distros with OpenRC. (I think Void too? I remember Void did things special too)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devuan
https://www.devuan.org/I haven’t used this, but know it exists.
NixOS is very tightly coupled to systemd, though there are efforts to change that
I’ve been reading about that myself…There are people trying to build an alternative init system for NixOS, looks like that effort is a long battle. FreeBSD could be a very hit or miss prospect for me, as I’d need to confirm the hardware support before making the jump. I have a 2021 PC, my general hardware would be supported in theory…The NVIDIA and Wayland support would make or break my choice, as I don’t want to use smelly X11. It’s time to move on from that antiquated display server.
There’s always TempleOS.
Systemd has finally croaked. Time to remove that garbage.
It already late i think too many years gone and so big legacy depending on it
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?
