Post #724810
2026-03-22 19:25 UTC
I wouldn’t personally. But either way all these forks are silly considering the non issue they’re addressing. Though it’s their developers, God-given time to waste. Should they choose to.
It was a merge request from an external unassociated developer. To add an optional text field to a bunch of other already optional and generally unfilled text fields. With no method to check or enforce anything. To the nameD subsystem of systemD. If the text field offends you don’t fill it. Save your power for those implementing checking and enforcement.
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@Sophocles@infosec.pub 2026-03-23 11:18
I can definitely see both sides. On one hand I do agree the actual change itself is pretty meaningless. Just don’t fill the systemdb entries with any info. However what the change represents is much more alarming. It signals a foot in the door to open source devs conplying to the authoritarian whims of a governmental power. They should definitely not comply with dumb legeslature like this, especially considering their userbase. TLDR: the change itself is dumb and small, but what it means for the foss community is much more alarming and dangerous.