“software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like” it literally can.

[zzt@mas.to]

feel free to fuck off with the “it’s just a field in a database, distros will make it a simple age gate during account creation” horseshit unless you come with an explanation of why that’ll work in a regulatory landscape where porn sites with age gates are currently under legal threat from states where an age gate isn’t a sufficient proof mechanism, to the point where some of them have started partnering with companies like (Thiel-backed) Persona for identity verification

[zzt@mas.to]

if your proof is that I should trust that the people currently complying will suddenly grow a backbone and it’s actually very punk rock to have a database field with PII in systemd: go fuck yourself

[zzt@mas.to]

also, is it not plainly fucking horrid that your account creation experience on linux of all fucking things is getting worse due to an unjust, unconstitutional (in the US) law? are you not pissed that muscle memory and scripts will break and command line account creation will get much worse due to this? no objections from the fuckers who campaign against any improvements to the status quo on this one? no? only when doing so fucks over someone else? how weird!

[cygnathreadbare@retro.pizza]

@zzt “software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like”
The entire industry is now betting everything on software that only (and barely) works if you act as if licenses and copyright laws don't really matter if your investors are big enough.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@zzt I wish I could display your message EVERYWHERE on the internet

[benjistokman@mast.benstokman.me]

@zzt @MrBerard no it's not. There's no verification. It's a column in a DB.

[zzt@mas.to]

@benjistokman @MrBerard did your loser ass miss my post about this https://mas.to/@zzt/116422074191875052 or were you just too busy capitulating to fascism to fucking read?

[bstacey@icosahedron.website]

@zzt Strangely, no government wants to pass a law that says an OS has the *option* of offering an age attestation prompt at account creation, that websites and apps have the *option* of requesting an age-bracket signal, and that in any suit involving alleged harms to a minor, it is an affirmative defense on the part of the app/site that they received a signal indicating the user to be an adult. I mean, I can still see ways that could be bad, but it would push the whole deal a lot closer to workable and constitutional. (Like how we do movie ratings. They're not required by law and can't be.)

[zzt@mas.to]

“it’s just a column in a database, aren’t you being dramatic” thanks fucker, believe it or not I know how software works and I know perfectly well the type of horrid crap we can build on top of a simple backend if it’s encapsulated in the right type of system

[chiraag@mastodon.online]

@zzt Genuine question: who uses systemd-userdbd? Because that's where this is implemented. Debian for sure doesn't use it by default (unless I missed something).

[zzt@mas.to]

@chiraag gentoo, arch, everything else that uses logind including debian if you configure it to do so https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/15175

genuine answer though: you’re missing the point by a mile

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@zzt "It's just a column in a database" is also a great rebuttal to any commentary about the Federal Reserve.

[zzt@mas.to]

@jwz I’m trying hard to not bring up the prison industrial complex or IBM’s role in automating concentration camps but shit these assholes really need the reminder

[pixelrobot@neopaquita.es]

@zzt Relax, man. It's just a numerical identifier in a database. It's harmless.

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[perigee@rage.love]

@losttourist @zzt @MrBerard "just accept this tiny fragment of shit in your cereal. I promise you'll hardly taste it" (later, having accepted the shit) "now that we've established you'll accept a little shit, all your meals will consist of 50% shit as a cost containment strategy".

[perigee@rage.love]

@PixelRobot @zzt I'm sure it won't turn into something devastating later. That never happens in exploitative capitalism. </s>

[zzt@mas.to]

@perigee @PixelRobot the only time we can push back on something bad is when it’s far, far too late

[sinvega@mas.to]

@zzt "it's just a little x, it's just one y"

IT IS NEVER "Just" ANYTHING IF IT IS MORE THAN NOTHING. FUCK YOU.

[zzt@mas.to]

“it’s just a column in a database” said presumably a full grown adult whose ability to live under capitalism is a column in their bank’s database

[anthk@neopaquita.es]

@zzt @MrBerard Good luck enforcing that to retrosystems such
as FreeDOS and Minix, or ITS. You can access to these services right now even
over telnet.