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Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism (itsfoss.com)

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Dylan M. Taylor is not a household name in the Linux world. At least, he wasn’t until recently.

The software engineer and longtime open source contributor has quietly built a respectable track record over the years: writing Python code for the Arch Linux installer, maintaining packages for NixOS, and contributing CI/CD pipelines to various FOSS projects.

But a recent change he made to systemd has pushed him into the spotlight, along with a wave of intense debate.

At the center of the controversy is a seemingly simple addition Dylan made: an optional birthDate field in systemd’s user database.

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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It's not stupid insofar that it is an additional fingerprintable data point. But it's obviously still much harder to fingerprint you if many users share the same value that you have, so it is invalid.