cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/62192988
The latest changes implemented in the Systemd repo, related to or prompted by age-verification laws, have made many people unhappy (I suppose links about this aren't necessary). This has led to a surge in Systemd forks during the last days ("surge" because there have always been plenty of forks). Here are some forks that explicitly mention those changes as their reason for forking (rough time ordering taken from the fork page):
paramazo/systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager without age verification"
ganitam/systemd "Systemd fork just before the Age Verification addition. Hoping more capable developers and maintainers do same.."
GSYT-Productions/systemd-fork "The systemd System and Service Manager, without the stupid Age Verification"
speedythesnail/unre tarded-systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager, without the r e t arded age-verification commits"
ta13579/systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager WITHOUT THE FUCKING AGE CHECKS"
r4shsec/systemd-no-age-verification "This is systemd but without the age verification made via pull request https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40978"
Pingasmaster/fightthesystemd "Systemd without the nonsense: no age verification, no lighthouse built-in."
Jeffrey-Sardina/system "Liberated systemd -- no surveillance. Ever."
HaplessIdiot/systemd-saneagecheck "The systemd System and Service Manager with age verification bypass and polling rate options for said feature"
Queer-Coded-LGBTQ/systemd-fuck-california "The systemd System and Service Manager, but without age bs added in."
Codiak540/unshitted-systemd "A fork of systemd aiming to strip the Age verification. Sue me california."
Hopefully the energy of this reaction won't be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.
34 Comments
Eldritch@piefed.world · 41 pts · 150d
The reaction by definition is unproductive. I think Brodie Robertson did a good job covering this the other day.
It's literally an addition of an optional text field in a collection of already optional and often unfilled text fields. In a small part of the systemD suite. UserD, with no checking or enforcement. Which has value in business and corporate environments. In the form of a pull request from an external, unaffiliated coder.
Regardless of where you stand on metas push for age-gating everything so they don't have to. Which if you aren't against it, you're a fool. This is all way more reactionary and less substantive than the valid sysV vs systemD debate.
ryper@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 150d
I wonder how many people freaking out over this field have even looked at what other fields are on that user record. The
realNamefield could be used to dox you! ICE and the CIA are interested in yourlocation! Those fields have about the same level of enforcement as the new one, i.e. you can just lie.org@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 149d
Good examples of things that shouldn’t be there.
pupbiru@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 149d
why not? in multi user environments the user could be in any number of office locations… tracking that information is useful
just because it’s not useful for you doesn’t mean it’s not useful to anyone
org@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 149d
Race, gender, sexual preference, these are all useful to someone and yet should not be data collected. Name, sure. Birth date, no. I’m fine with an Adult Boolean.
pupbiru@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 149d
then perhaps you should have made the PR rather than completely overreacting about someone else’s implementation of an entirely optional, unverified text field
org@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 149d
I don’t see you getting involved.
pupbiru@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 149d
i’m fine with the change. why would i get involved when im involved with other FOSS efforts and much prefer systemd to every other option
xyro@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 150d
While we're at it, we could add a race and sexual orientation field, this could have value for business in some countries!
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 149d
A JewONo field might be useful in some counties too
30p87@feddit.org · 0 pts · 149d
Value for business ≠ Mandated by law
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 21 pts · 150d
It's traditional:
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 150d
I’ve seen less complex taxonomic trees!
KryptoSynth@ani.social · 2 pts · 150d
SVG Source
mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud · 4 pts · 150d
Wait wait wait, your telling me that systems has a user thing to log user data?
Where does systemd start and end? As it looks to be way too invasive
Laser@feddit.org · 2 pts · 149d
Debian systems have optionally collected this kind of data way before systemd existed via
adduser.org@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 149d
Does it automatically expose this information to websites that ask for it?
tribut@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 149d
No. Just like systemd.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · -12 pts · 150d
Womp Womp.
What did they expect would happen?
I can only hope this ends up with the original simply being left to rot.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 150d
Did you read the freaking merge https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954
Eldritch@piefed.world · 21 pts · 150d
Nope. No one did. It's all drama farming and ignorant apoplectic panic. I'd absolutely be interested to know more about the person behind the merge request. Apparently they have submitted similar code to several other projects for the same purpose. But it's just fashionable to hate on systemD right now. At least the sysV vs systemD guys have valid issues. Even though as a 30-year Linux user, I wouldn't go back to sysV inits. I do not miss having to use poorly documented or outright undocumented tricks, tips, and arcana to write basic process watchdogs and initialization scripts.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
It's hard enough for maintainers and devs to fight ai and governments. If you wanna go against someone go against corpos and government not people doing their hobbies.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 8 pts · 150d
Yes, time and effort would be infinitely better spent yelling at the local and national governments pushing for this to be implemented at the behest of meta. Than outrage of an optional text field.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 149d
When has Foss been sued by governments? I can think of only a few examples, when the software was used to mix crypto.
I don't see age verification being used to shut down Debian. They would just move to another country
org@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 150d
We should have them add ss# too, since it’s non-privileged. What could go wrong?
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 150d
That's not a thing in like every single country. Might as well add a "Name of the Chinese primary school you graduated from" field, at least that would have more users.
org@lemmy.org · -2 pts · 150d
Whatever you wanna call it. Let’s add that. Gender, gender between your legs, marriage status, race is also super important.
It’s just a field… so why not?
death_to_carrots@feddit.org · 2 pts · 150d
What could go wrong if in your system there exists a standard place where you could put some magic string?
Remember, no one is forcing you to put the magic string in.
org@lemmy.org · 9 pts · 150d
No one is forcing the magic string YET. But to think some governments won’t enforce that later is contrary to reality. The direction of the world is very clear…