Systemd BirthDate Merge: Conflicts of Interest (tboteproject.com)

by npongratz 23 comments 23 points
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[−] iugtmkbdfil834 42d ago
It was a long time coming, but it now happened. SystemD managed to do something that might give people pause over convenience factor. I am saying might, because while I am now actively planning ( until now I treated it as ideologically impure aspect of linux, but sufficiently useful to offset that discomfort ). DOB merge ( and how it was done ) changes that calculus by a wide margin. It is not even about DOB now. It is the full blown slippery slope with MS doing round 2 of EEE.
[−] withinboredom 42d ago
The mailing list doesn't seem to make it out into such a controversial issue. It's an optional field that doesn't require a real birthday.
[−] righthand 42d ago
The issue isn’t the field but how the governance system for critical software is non-existant.
[−] uecker 42d ago
It also has to be considered in light of the fact that Lennart builds a company for "cryptographically verifiable integrity on Linux".
[−] withinboredom 42d ago
Because someone added a new user field? Does that need governance?
[−] VladStanimir 42d ago
I don't see the problem with the systemd DOB merger, the DOB will have to be stored somewhere and systemd already has a place where user information is securely stored so they added a new field to the user database.

The alternative is not that no DOB will be stored is that it will end up stored in 20 different locations on the filesystem.

[−] jmclnx 42d ago
From the wayback machine, I could not get into the link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260403141132/https://tboteproj...

[−] tzs 42d ago
The site this is on seems to be a bit questionable [1].

[1] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1064706/ba8e449d224f5067/

[−] righthand 42d ago
Why doesn’t someone fork systemd and start reworking/taking out all the icky parts as well as destroying Poettering’s control over it?

Debian’s forced accepting of Systemd is finally rearing it’s ugly head.

I am glad I switched to Devuan earlier this year.

[−] sqidyyy 42d ago
The "DiRUG reform" link leads nowhere and I can't find that particular site neither on bmj.de nor the Wayback Machine. Is that an hallucinated artifact?
[−] Foxboron 42d ago
This just reads like a LLM trying to come up with a conspiracy theory around systemd.

It somehow got hyper-fixated on "three" for no particular reason and seems like it decided to harpen down that fact without explaining anything around it?

[−] beepbooptheory 42d ago
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