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I’m glad they did this because it finally gave me the push to move all my stuff to Codeberg.

by your claim, the field can have any series of numbers, that there is no way to determine if it is accurate, and the law that this was done to appease is bad, as in not able to obtain its expected result. and so the data is useless.

Yeah, so this tells me you have no clue what you’re actually talking about.

You don’t even stop to think for a second that maybe some enterprise setting requires such fields. Maybe they have software that populates account information based on their HR systems’ data, auto-creating user accounts? Maybe they can find a DoB field useful? Zero clue, zero thought, just “I don’t use it, therefore it’s useless”.

No point in continuing this discussion, I guess.

Again: what authority do you have to decide which data fields are useful, and which aren’t?

How do you personally differentiate between “useful” and “useless”? Is it: “I have no need for it therefore it needs to be removed”, by any chance?

Why hasn’t the discussion started when realName was introduced?

Someone may find these data points useful, for whatever reason. No point in being angry at a date field, mate.

because it’s too late at that point, which is the whole point and issue!

A PR is when the discussion is supposed to happen. It’s an open source project, nothing happens “too late” to discuss. You see that change in the pull request, you can start moaning about it.

if the field is necessary, but the data is useless, then it shouldn’t be there

Who defines what’s “useless”? You? On what authority?

So, how about we start freaking out when someone starts making these fields required, instead of right away?

However, once this field exists, it enables later reference and/or mandatory dependencies

Yeah, this is a devious plan that has been going on for years, when they added the realName field!

Mate, it’s an optional field on your local OS. If a paedo has access to this, it also means they have access to everything else, so there are plenty other opportunities for them to check whether or not they’re interested in you.

I thought the one in the OP was a breaded chicken breast…

Ah, so what you meant to say is not “democracy is a joke” but rather: “people’s awareness of what’s going on is a joke”, I got it.

They’re not voting on the same thing they voted just recently. “Chat control 1.0”, as it is sometimes called, was passed 6 years ago - it was the voluntary monitoring that vendors were allowed to do. That law has just ended. The conservatives want to extend it. This is the current vote.

What they voted on a month ago was the “2.0” version, where monitoring would’ve been mandatory.

Nothing screams “democracy is a joke” more than voting on things, amirite guys?

A username field isn’t for your real name, it’s for a username and it has always been for that. Stop being intentionally obtuse.

I’m not talking about the “username” field.

I’m talking about the “Full name”, or “User name”, or “Name” field in the OS - name depends on the language version and the OS itself. Stop being intentionally obtuse.

What’s to stop them from using all of the required user fields and then running a background fingerprinting check and then using that fingerprint every single time you visit a site?

What…?

First of all: the OS username is not shared with the website.

Secondly: websites already do fingerprinting, what are you talking about?

People are defending this with such fervor, too

Yeah, “stop overreacting” is such incredible fervour!

but why would someone care so much about defending a date of birth field?

I could not care less. I just find it weird that you guys panic about it so much, to the point of there being dozens of new systemd forks, just because a new optional field was added.

Are you saying that you’re putting your real name in the “user name” field? And feel that you have to?

What’s the difference between inputting a bogus name or a nickname in the “user name” field and selecting 1970-01-01 as your DoB?

You need some kind of username to converse to fellow engineers

On your OS?? No, you don’t. You select a username on whatever system you pick for said comms, has nothing to do with the OS account’s “user name” field.

Do you feel the same about the “user name” field? Do you consider that to also be the end of privacy and the road to totalitarianism?

This is nonsense. Do you feel like having a “user name” field brings “real ID one step closer”? Just don’t fill that field or enter some bogus data - nobody is checking this.

Do you also feel compelled to provide your true name on the “user name” field?

Oh, didn’t you know? “The World” is just “USA” on the Internet.

You could try connecting an external keyboard/mouse to your main computer.

As for the backup one - how much space do you have left? You’d need between 4 and 6 GB to download a Linux ISO and around 2 MB for Rufus with which you’d build a bootable “live USB”.

If you don’t have even that much, grab WinDirStat to check what exactly is taking up so much space - maybe you can remove some of it.

Weird. I was just setting up three Linux laptops and was asked if I wanted to turn these features on every time.

Weird. I was just setting up three Linux laptops and was asked if I wanted to turn these features on every time.