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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.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    So from my PoV the question is whether it’s better that Linux will be prohibited for noncompliance

    That’s the same slope.

    It it better that systemD add a column?

    Is it better than ubuntu starts enforcing it?

    Is it better that they just outlaw software that doesn’t comply?

    For me, that line starts back at the very beginning. There’s no room for FOSS for Authoritarianism. I’m not interested in giving them a few inches of rope so that they can hang us with it later. If governments want to use Linux, they can, they can even fork it and make their own changes. They don’t get to demand how our own software tracks us.

    • motogo@feddit.dk
      1·
      2 days ago

      You’re right. All PI data should be tokenised to ensure a proper abstraction between the user and their identity. And then a tool a bit like Flatseal to allow granular access to that data.