It's just a birthday field in a JSON file, you don't even have to fill it up
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There are legitimate reasons to criticise systemd and I'm completely certain that they will never be posted in this community. I swear if I have to read some stupid comment about the unix philosphy from someone who has no idea what systemd is, which parts are optional or what init looked like before this stupid twenty year long debate...
Why though, I sure love having a load of script files in a folder doing the boot things.
I can easily add another.
Why system not boot, help
/s
I guess we’re going to find out how resilient the FOSS movement really is in the face of authoritarianism.
systemdeez nuts
I don't hate systemd, but age ID verification? Risks to my privacy grossly outweigh any benefit.
It's not age verification though. It is exactly what linux should do under the hood to handle this. Just a field.
The issue is that Linux shouldn't be making any attempts to handle this at all.
If the various governments are going to try and require this, they can make and maintain their own forks and accept all the responsibility and risk that entails. Or the businesses beholden to the laws can. We have no obligation to make this easier on them, and every reason to make it harder.
If various Linux (and Linux software/component) maintainers would hold the line, we'd be fine.
The godawful mess of what would come from all of these different groups scrambling to implement their own solutions would be the fucking point. The most effective way to manage upwards at people who don't understand or want to listen is to make them feel pain for their shitty decisions.
hey my birthday's 1/1/1970 too
Absolutely. That’s not what happened though. It’s a birthdate field with no verification. The point is to show how stupid the laws are.
Don't hate systemd for age verification
Hate systemd for its monolithic, anti-Unix design pattern
Ok. Here's the thing. I don't know how linux works. I don't know what systemd is. All I know is that all around the world we got clowns who know less about linux than I do trying to dictate the entire worldwide internet to cater to their specific geographical location, regardless of where the user is.
Then I hear systemd is openly trying to bow at the knee before these laws are even in effect.
And yes, the current system is you as a user inputting your birthday with zero verification.
But the gov of california has already said that before these laws go into effect they'll be looking for stricter laws with checks in place. These systems are not in place now. Nor do they even know what they will turn out to be.
When asked about this, the gov said "We're working on it."
Then systemd comes along, ready to bend all of linux to their whims. So I put two and two together and decided this whole thing is pissing me off.
Systemd isn't monolithic, it's a pluggable framework with a shit load of components
It replicates a lot of unix tooling poorly, bound to the Systemd framework which runs only on Linux. So, still a monolith.
That's ... not what monolithic means, in software architecture
ok so tell me why I'm waiting for networking to come up before I'm allowed to interact with my computer
Also, its monolithic as heck, its a giant squid into my networking, time management, access control..
Ontop of that.. binary logs ew.
ok so tell me why I'm waiting for networking to come up before I'm allowed to interact with my computer
Because your distro sets up stuff weirdly? At least I never noticed networkd to be a dependency of multi-user.target, could be wrong though.
Also, its monolithic as heck, its a giant squid into my networking, time management, access control..
That's all optional though, many distros just use it because it's easier than the alternatives.
Ontop of that.. binary logs ew.
Yeah, that's indeed stupid. No clue why they did that.
Pervasive, yes. Deeply embedded in the distros that uses it, absolutely. And I get why people don't like binary logs, although that isn't exactly relevant to monolithic vs pluggable.
You seem to think that I'm arguing against your opinion that systemd is bad. I'm not. I'm arguing against the false statement that it is monolithic. It isn't. It's modular, like the linux kernel. If you wanted to remove every component except the init system, you could. Big pain in the ass to do that, but you could.
Goddamn people are so reactionary
these memes all come from the same person
To be fair this one person is responsible for about 30% of the content on Lemmy. 🤣
I feel like this is one of those times where I tell my engineer to create a procedure for some random dumb thing management wants to implement so that we do it ahead of time before they come in and tell us how to do it
Bruh
Back in the 1980s the idea of being gay was NOT something that was openly accepted in America. You could be attacked, or worse, if the right crowd decided you needed to pay for your lifestyle.
Around this same time, Reagan had completely changed how prisons were funded. Before, it mostly came out of the pockets of the government. And after Reagan, we got what we have now. Prisons for profit.
Which meant conditions went way down, almost overnight, and prison populations started to boom. Because before, prisoners were a burden on tax dollars. If you arrested someone for jaywalking, you now had to convince a judge why a jaywalker belonged in prison.
But now, with megacorporations footing the bill, the expansions of the prison systems could explode. If you paid for prisons to be built and you made profit on each prisoner, you wanted them full.
Which meant.....THE WAR ON DRUGS!
So, now you have massive populations of prisoners, all being held for crimes that shouldn't carry a long sentence, and in many cases, never even happened.
What this meant is, these prisons became almost a community among the prisoners. And as such, you inevitably had gay prisoners.
So to signal to the other prisoners that you were gay, and wanted to get fucked in the ass, you'd wear your pants a little loose, and a little low. The look became known as "sagging". And for about 10 years, nobody outside of prisons knew about it.
Then the 90s came, and these prisoners started getting released. And they continued sagging outside of prison, even though it no longer carried the same weight. It just became a fashion sense among urban communities without a trace of its former meaning.
So when I see this picture.....it's like.....TOO on the nose. Thats not pants sagging, that's pants dropping. The ironic thing is, if you told him that look signaled him as the bitch of the group, he'd probably be very angry. Especially since in the 90s being gay STILL wasn't socially acceptable.
Do you have a source on sagging pants as a gay signal?
Cause from what I read, it was simply prisons offering only one size of pants and not allowing belts.
In this case they just wanna show off their expensive brand underwear, though I'm not sure how anyone can walk like that
By showing everything BUT the waistband? The one part that actually displays the branding.
It's fascinating to me how social norms can be so radically warped from one society to another. From my "normal" of not wanting others to see what's under my pants, to this, to having a huge disk pierced into your bottom lip like those African tribes... There's just so much diversity among us. It's pretty cool. And sometimes weird. 😆
You don’t wear ankle pants?
I do, I do, it's just... My pants to down to my ankles rather than my ankles going up to my "waist". 😆
I wear them over my regular pants.
Baller.
its attestation, not verification, and they are just putting things in place to comply with the law bc you have to. being open source does not exempt you from following the law.
also, since every proprietary platform won't even bat an eye over this everything will soon require it to function (obviously assuming the laws pass). this means linux won't work properly with any web-based things. this is the same issue you get whenever Wayland tries to go against what every other platform does and just breaks a bunch of apps.