▲ 628 ▼ Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support (itsfoss.com) submitted 7 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 182 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children) What? It's like saying systemd is handing the government your info because they have a field for your real name and address. YOU control what info goes there, if any. It mandates NOTHING. You may as well be mad at vim because your text editor is capable of storing your birthdate if you go in and type it and save it to /public/myInfo.txt permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) This is pretty key. If they had added this field 8 years ago, absent any context of swarms of lawmakers salivating for personal info so they can find more children to fuck, or data to sell to their donors, then I wouldn't have thought much of it. The timing is absolutely a critical element of the discussion. Heck, wait until CA has repealed its law, and admitted in embarrassment it was a terrible implementation of child protection, and maybe I'd even be okay with adding the field. Putting it in now is very much like the nazi standing at your door, holding a hand close to your knob, insisting "I'm not actually searching your house and breaking your 4th amendment rights! I'm just standing here, for no particular reason!" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children) What? It's like saying systemd is handing the government your info because they have a field for your real name and address. YOU control what info goes there, if any. It mandates NOTHING. You may as well be mad at vim because your text editor is capable of storing your birthdate if you go in and type it and save it to /public/myInfo.txt permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) This is pretty key. If they had added this field 8 years ago, absent any context of swarms of lawmakers salivating for personal info so they can find more children to fuck, or data to sell to their donors, then I wouldn't have thought much of it. The timing is absolutely a critical element of the discussion. Heck, wait until CA has repealed its law, and admitted in embarrassment it was a terrible implementation of child protection, and maybe I'd even be okay with adding the field. Putting it in now is very much like the nazi standing at your door, holding a hand close to your knob, insisting "I'm not actually searching your house and breaking your 4th amendment rights! I'm just standing here, for no particular reason!" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[+] silverneedle@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) This is pretty key. If they had added this field 8 years ago, absent any context of swarms of lawmakers salivating for personal info so they can find more children to fuck, or data to sell to their donors, then I wouldn't have thought much of it. The timing is absolutely a critical element of the discussion. Heck, wait until CA has repealed its law, and admitted in embarrassment it was a terrible implementation of child protection, and maybe I'd even be okay with adding the field. Putting it in now is very much like the nazi standing at your door, holding a hand close to your knob, insisting "I'm not actually searching your house and breaking your 4th amendment rights! I'm just standing here, for no particular reason!" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)
[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) This is pretty key. If they had added this field 8 years ago, absent any context of swarms of lawmakers salivating for personal info so they can find more children to fuck, or data to sell to their donors, then I wouldn't have thought much of it. The timing is absolutely a critical element of the discussion. Heck, wait until CA has repealed its law, and admitted in embarrassment it was a terrible implementation of child protection, and maybe I'd even be okay with adding the field. Putting it in now is very much like the nazi standing at your door, holding a hand close to your knob, insisting "I'm not actually searching your house and breaking your 4th amendment rights! I'm just standing here, for no particular reason!" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment load more comments (1 reply)