Everyone should set it to 1970-01-01.
In other news there has been a massive uptick in Boomers converting to Linux....
An init system does not need to know my personal details; it’s for starting programs in a specific order just fuck off with this shit. You don’t even have to capitulate to this stuff and these freaks are out here doing it preemptively like they expect a fucking pat on the head for being first in line to dive tongue first on to that boot.
Systemd isn't an init system. Systemd-init is an init system and it is a part of the systemd suite.
Whatever the fuck it is it doesn’t need to know how old I am to do its job.
It already has fields for personal information, though, and they're every bit as sensitive as your birthdate. realName, emailAddress, location, and timezone are already in there. The important part is that they're all optional, and you don't have to fill them in at all, or can fill them in with fake data. The system still serves you, not some outside party.
But the timing of it does have a lot of people freaking out about it.
I now fear it will one day be required for services on the internet (as it is by a recent law in California). I want to make that less likely, and more difficult to implement.
Having a principle the majority do not have and refusing to participate means being another step further out of society.
It doesn't need to know your age. It just provides a way to take a note of your birth date, only if you want to. The system already has a place to write your name and home address. All are optional and practically nobody uses them.
And it still doesn't, the blank space does not need to be filled
It doesn't know how old are you, it just remembers a date you tell it. You can give your birthday, but you can choose any other day
It has been sold as just an init system to people who argued it's a Katamari Damacy. We now know who was right.
tell me you have only a passing understanding of how modern linux is architected without telling me you have only a passing understanding of how modern linux is architected
Enlighten us then. Why would an operating system management tool need to know the age of its user?
because whilst systemd-initd is the part that everyone is generally aware of, that’s linked to systemd-logind so that processes can be started as different users… process init, session management, and user management are intertwined
they don’t have to be for sure - sysv init proves that - but in modern linux, they are and that comes with a load of benefits
https://deepwiki.com/systemd/systemd/6-user-and-session-management
I get that systemd also manages user data. I still fail to see how it needs that DoB.
The contents of the field will be protected from modification except by users with root privileges.
sudo my age to a thousand years then; no, thank you very very much
or just don’t set it
My date of birth is FU/CK/YOU
YOU-FU-CK is the better format and this is not debatable.
This guy fucks
FU/CK/YOOU
No thanks, not the distro I will be using.
Systemd isn't a distro, it's an init and bootstrapper that underlies several distros
they easily might have meant that the distro they will be using has declared they will not implement this
If the hyperventilators could read that would be a very good point.
It is just a field. What it contains, if anything at all, is irrelevant.
Every step towards making people feel at ease giving personal information away, makes the next one easier.
My hate of SystemD is further justified! And you all just called me gray haired and not willing to update with the times!
Remember when they said "relax, it's just an init system, no biggie"? Pepperidge farm remembers.
1930-01-01, done. But this shouldn't be a requirement to begin with either.
good thing it’s entirely optional then!
I meant wouldn't be a requirement for the operating system to have built into it.
I'm a Debian guy so I'll set mine to April 28, 1973.
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