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False equivalence as privacy is a human right. Article 12 of the UN declaration of human rights.
People have the right to switch projects and criticize the actions of the developers.
So it's the legistlation's fault again, why aren't you mad at them, why only systemd? In other jurisdictions you don't have to use this field. And I don't see anything in the PR about the verifability of the date. It's just an optional number it stores in a db, offline.
Programmers have to become lawyers now?
Also a lot other projects has a birthday field, e.g. last time I worked with was LDAP: https://ldapwiki.com/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Birthdate I guess it's there since the 90s.
The hell are you on about? People can, and are, upset about both. That said, changing a piece of software is monumentally easier than changing laws when you're up against an entire industry lobbying against your interests.
That's why you see the focus on the software.
Systemd refusing and telling CA to figure it the fuck out would have been one of the strongest counters to this bullshit currently available, and that option was just thrown in the fucking garbage. Of course people are going to be mad at systemd.
We are going to fork it or just remove it.
That whatever happens the problem is always systemd. Chain of events:
Who is to blame for all of this? Poettering who else...
subjectively, all of the above.
Of course you're seeing complaints about systemd in a discussion about systemd's part in this.
If you | go and look | at the other | conversations about | the same law in a non-systemd | context you'll | see complaints there as well
It's like claiming no dry land exists when you're swimming in the sea (within sight of the beach).
Blame? The realm of source code is ours! It takes less time to undue the PR then we are taking bickering about it.
Why aren't coders the only people allowed to be lawyers instead of these political activist clowns?
The only people who are remotely qualified to be my peers, to have the honour of being in the same room as me, are published package authors.
So yes, coders are more qualified to be lawyers than lawyers.