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Anything to replace firewall-cmd? (I know about ufw but it just feels too simple for my use case).

firewall-cmd commands are all fucked up and it feels like they use different verbs for very similar actions. Plus - - help is a few miles long which is not helpful. I just wish that it would have subcommands. Something like firewall-cmd zone public info

Hi. Are you a maintainer of one of the distros that might be affected by this law? If you aren't then you have no standing to blindly tell them that they should not follow the law and risk fines that would ruin the funding for their project(s).

Bringing up porn sites is a false equivalency. Many of these laws do not require verification of ID or face scans as some are incorrectly claiming. They require a birthdate be entered during installation. The laws surrounding porn sites required 3rd party age verification which many of these sites said would not only crater their traffic from these states but also introduce a privacy nightmare which would also work against their business interests.

Right. I thin you are ignoring some complexity here. This developer added a field to store some optional data in systemd. That code needs to be tested, reviewed, debated, and eventually needs to be merged in. Those merges, at least with large projects, don't typically get added directly to main they get added to a release branch. That release branch then needs to be completed and merged where it will then be packaged. Then different distributions/installers need to add that field as a requirement to their code which typically goes through the same process. Then all those changes need to be packaged for release by the distros themselves.

So I'll ask again. Assuming that distros do not want to risk being fined and financially ruined. What is a appropriate time before January 1st 2027 to open this pull request in systemd?

This would also assume that we would like to propose a solution (for the data storage) early enough that distros do not all come up with their own implementations and leave PII strewn across the system.

I don't get the complying in advance argument here. What would be an appropriate date for something like this to be accepted?

Wonder if they will draft trans women and force detrans them.

I don't know that I agree with this analogy either. Since Highway patrol's job is to stop drunk drivers. But an ISP just maintains the "road" and makes sure that it is available as much as possible.

And people down voted me when I called out the Sam Bent blog post for what it is. A hit piece.

That only bans the use of anthropic for government use. So no government entities or contractors could use it. We already do this for some other companies. BOD 17-01

But. That's the point. If no one breath tests then the car does not start. Hence it being an ignition interlock device. The whole point of the device is to stop drunk people from driving. If there is a sober person then obviously the drunk person should not do the test since that would lock the car.

"lawyers" can't bring charges for this law. Only the AG. If people don't like what the AG is doing then they can just start a recall election.

Even if systemd is managed by someone outside of Cali that does not automatically except them from all Cali laws. When a person decides to distribute software that comes with the legal responsibility of the locations where the software is distributed.

Why does your computer need to ask for your full name or office location? You don't have any issues with those fields? Or is it because you understand that those are optional just like this field is?

If you don't want to put your bday in then don't. fork the software and remove what you don't want. That is the great thing about open-source.

If you don't trust the maintainer of systemd then why are you using their software in the first place?

You are right it is obvious that zuck wants to hoover up as much data as possible. But what if, instead of this being a data gathering ploy (since the law forbids the data to be used for anything else), this is them trying to put the responsibility of controlling what children look at online onto the parents?

While I don't think that FB should be held resonsible for all the ways they fucked up the youth, I also think that the parents are to blame as well.

Are you implying that only people who are affected by something are allowed to contribute to open source projects? If this were some nobody developer in California would that really make you any more likely to accept that this merge request is okay?