> be 2026> systemd-homed ignored by distros for 6 years> corporate shills use "age verification" as a guise> injects 'BirthDate' into systemd-userdb (homed dependency)> suddenly you need homed for "compliance"> goodbye / etc / passwd, hello encrypted JSON bloatware> OpenSSH breaks, Linux no longer UNIX-like> MFW it was a blatant psyop all alongThe "age verification" push on Linux is a blatant attempt to force systemd-homed into the ecosystem. Historically, Linux followed the UNIX POSIX standard. Everything was a file; / etc / passwd was transparent and manageable with standard tools like VIM. The kernel treated accounts as simple UIDs.Distros ignored systemd-homed for 6 years due to path dependency issues. Now, Dylan Taylor’s PR adds "BirthDate" specifically to the userdb inside homed. This is the Trojan horse.Homed is anti-UNIX. It manages accounts via a JSON-based userdb, ignoring POSIX APIs. It’s designed as a digital ID system to store real names, emails, phone numbers, location data, and avatars in a non-standard encrypted format.It even breaks time-sharing features and OpenSSH—the bread and butter of server admins. This is an architectural subversion to strip Linux of its UNIX-like nature. Linux was built on decades of standards since the 70s. Replacing that foundation with a bloated mess like homed for a "think of the children" tier feature is horrific.Linux must remain UNIX. This structure has to be preserved. We can't let the entire foundation crumble just because of some "age verification" bullshit.
That's not what trojan horse means, that's just the Greek army knocking on the door, they didn't even switch uniforms.
>>108557974None of this shit matters anymore, anon. Open source devs are all trannies, everything is being rewritten in rust, X was replaced with wayland, and software development replaced with vibecoding. The world you knew no longer exists and no one cares.
>>108557974Alternatives exist. Use them. Help maintaining them. And most importantly: Take your meds./thread
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I did an apt upgrade in debian a couple weeks ago. For some reason it made me install userdbd. I of course promptly uninstalled it, but I am very suspicious
>>108557974>Linux no longer UNIX-likeThis is the main thing, imho. They're making a new systemd OS with everything tightly coupled to work the way they want it: fragmentation solved. But this new system is not made of simple components that do one thing and do it well, so you can't mix and match to adapt to your own specific use case, which is what made Linux the choice for everything from toasters to high-end servers. You can have you systemd OS on your desktops and even use the name linux, since you bought Torvalds, but I'll be using some unbotnetted unix-like that won't go away because systemd cannot replace this niche.
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>>108557974Don't care, still using GNU Shepherd, the GNU init system of the GNU operating system.
>>108557974just use alpine with openrc if you're this schizo about an optional text field
>>108557974You did not win anything, plenty of distros without systemDSo go cuck yourselves to big techI am sure IBM is not done molesting fedora/redhat
>>108560263I hope not, if Slackware closes it's doors I will abandon Linux and find a flavor of BSD I can live with
>>108560653As soon as RMS dies they will subvert GNU hard.
>>108557974I support both sides: your posix unix rant and your picture. But systemd is neither.
>>108557974Thanks but I'm sticking with UNIX.
>>108561070>no you can’t point out a good alternative because I want to bitch and moan about shit that exists only in my mind
>>108561070Guix devs, who are the ones developing the main distro using GNU Shepherd, don’t even get along with rms
>>108560807Don't cry to us when the optional text field evolves into the non-optional government ID.
>>108557974>linux development is funded by big corpos>big corpos do what's good for big corpos>penniless end-users who never contributed anything are surprised by this turn of eventsnice ai slop op, nigger
>>108557974a community with more than 5000 distros and alternatives to systemd.what are you sperging about, this will only effect compromised shit like ubuntu and fedora the whole fuzz around this is retarded
>>108557974the 20 people using linux at home will be very angry
>>108557974who uses userdb or homed? I don't even see that in corporate environments
Also Florida just gave a mandatory last-call date of early May for their Age Verification for social media sites. Which is unconstitutional as fuck but nobody seems to care. It's now evolved past adult only sites and is now "Any site where users can communicate". This applies on all sites on the internet regardless of jurisdiction btw, that torrent site in Russia has to comply with Florida law according to the Attorney Generalhttps://ondato.com/blog/florida-age-verification-law/
>>108564261>a community with more than 5000 distros and alternatives to systemd.You don't have any *real* alternatives to systemd, stop lying to yourself. You have systemd, which is enforced at the core level by every major distro you could download by using Debian as a base, and you have the weird distros for autistic freaks who think the terminal is the way of the future
