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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):

Hopefully the energy of this reaction won't be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Out of the loop:

The systemd project merged a pull request adding a new birthDate field to the JSON user records managed by userdb, in response to age verification laws in California, Colorado, and Brazil.

Lennart Poettering clarified that this is an optional field in the userdb JSON object — not a policy engine, not an API for apps. It just defines the field so it's standardized if people want to store the date there, but it's entirely optional. Systemd itself does nothing with the data.

What a nothing burger

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

In response to German purity laws, IBM has added an optional field to their citizen database. It just defines a field "Is Jewish" so it's standardized, but entirely optional. IBM does nothing with the data.

What a nothing burger.

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Why they censor retarded? According to translator is just word for disabled what i miss?

[–] teft@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Es bedeutet mentale Retardierung.

It’s a pretty bad slur in English.

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