Post #2351235
2026-03-20 05:06 UTC
Replies (5)
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@pid_eins@mastodon.social 2026-03-20 05:10
@cas@social.treehouse.systems i never trusted these people in the first place and boy was I right. I'll now move one of my machines to CrazyOS because it stores no PII at all. That will hurt Kernighan and Ritchie, Ha! CrazyOS will not store *any* PII, it's so good! It doesnt have a password (MS-DOS back in the day already had that, and it should be common sense), you just are let in right away. It's kinda annoying though that it has no $HOME to store data in, but of course that's cool, because that would be PII...
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@fence@xyzzy.link 2026-03-20 07:18
@pid_eins@mastodon.social @cas@social.treehouse.systems the ones that yap about it have no idea who those 2 people are I belive
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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 2026-03-20 09:47
@pid_eins@mastodon.social @cas@social.treehouse.systems UNIX wasn't installed on end-user computers, the same way end-user computers would be surprised that --delete-tmpfiles removes their homedir. i am impressed that systemd now realizes it's also used on people's laptops and not just containers but UNIX never had to deal with this because it was expensive and proprietary. least trustworthy thing i've ever read and i have no idea why cas feels the need to defend it at length. postmarketos marketing for a pos
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@ailepet@peoplemaking.games 2026-03-20 11:29
@pid_eins@mastodon.social @cas@social.treehouse.systems I've actually had a bunch of teachers at uni who told us about PII in /etc/ and asked us if Linux was GDPR-compliant. We didn't had a definitive answer (it was mostly "no"), but neither did they.
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@Mae@is.badat.dev 2026-03-21 02:21
@pid_eins@mastodon.social @cas@social.treehouse.systems I don't think anyone is mad about the PII angle of things. If you introduce a birthdate field without the background of age verification laws no one would bat an eye. People are mad because this is complying with laws they believe should not be complied with. By introducing the field right now, in a PR specifically mentioning the age verification laws you are making a political statement. The privacy angle is not something people care about as far as I can see and I think it's disingenuous to act like that's the main concern.