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.

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.

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.

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?

Listen, I am going to even break the rule I pointed out elsewhere like two of my comments ago to say this, but this is just gratuitous: if its ok and good to shadowban sites like 404media, we need to set up the same kind of thing with this one. It is very bad and this is like third post from it in as many days.

Mods can we do this? Or rather: I humbly propose this. Where other users can still vouch for a submission if its still deemed good enough to post (like 404media)?

Also, tangentially (and asked before), can we please get a list of sites that are actively banned like this? Not a big deal I guess but I think it would be interesting to see.

From the wayback machine, I could not get into the link:

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

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?

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.