the pressure from social media worked. In systemd, age verification has finally been reverted and removed for good. Linux is always for privacy conscious users, it isn't just another Microslop SlopOS https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41179 thanks @reddy_1975 for the heads up!
EDIT: they rejected the PR. So keep fight on! systemd folks are cowards and enabling this mess.
@nixCraft @reddy_1975 I鈥檝e never taken sides or cared that passionately about the systemd debate. But I am absolutely opposed to having my ID (which is what it will become over time) handed over to my government by any open source project. It鈥檚 bad enough I have to deal with my information being sold to it from my phone or mainstream OS that I use (all without my consent).
@nixCraft @reddy_1975 I鈥檓 glad this happened. I鈥檝e never taken sides or cared that passionately about the systemd debate. But I am absolutely opposed to having my ID (which is what it will become over time) handed over to my government by any open source project. It鈥檚 bad enough I have to deal with my information being sold to it from my phone or mainstream OS that I use (all without my consent).
@nixCraft @reddy_1975 any os with age verification is getting uninstalled and replaced by something that won鈥檛 sell me out to a gaggle of jackboot techbros with mommy issues from lack of love
@nixCraft @reddy_1975 i've pulled a fork out to codeberg so we atleast have an unpolluted copy outside github
@nixCraft @reddy_1975 I'm tired of this trend to pressure FOSS projects, how about we revert the laws. You're still a slave of the state, might as well stay as one if your only hope is to talk nonsense online.
@nixCraft @reddy_1975 Huh? The PR says "Closed with unmerged commits" while it only contains one commit.
Unless I'm completely missing something fundamental, this means the opposite of what you're claiming.
people don't realize this, but this is how they infect a good product and build surveillance network. today it is age verification for OS, tomorrow they will come with sex verification to target LGBQT+ groups or country verification to target minorities or immgirations, etc.
Meta, the evil corp who is behind this, wants everything trackable, starting with your age &d id verification, KYC, & whatnot. it is my computer, & i am not going to be tracked. it is the same reason you use an adblocker
@nixCraft
Same shit:
Try to buy a car nowadays and tell me it is "your car".
Geo-tracking, telemetry, subscriptions...
