Invasion of privacy in the name of "protection" (22)

1 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/24 08:08

ITT we discuss the ongoing destruction of online liberty through government datamining efforts. Systemd, which is used by many linux distros, has already crumbled to the age verification laws (´・ω・｀).

2 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/24 13:54

I'm going to have to switch distros. I can't use anything downstream of Ubuntu after this.
https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify

3 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/24 20:01

Sadly even arch uses systemd, so I guess BSDs are the new answer

4 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/25 20:42

Why not use Gentoo?

5 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/25 21:43

>>4
Because it's too hard for me to install (´・ω・｀)

6 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/26 07:05

Use alpine. They wouldn't put age verification in a "docker image distro", would they?

7 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/26 08:28

>>6
You've used it before?

8 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/26 14:58

>>7
It's been my desktop for about 5 years.

9 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/27 19:06

>>3
There are things like devuan that use an alternative init system

10 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/27 19:44

Just when I started to get the hang of setting up systemd services, they pull this shit.

11 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/27 20:24

https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Fascinating shit.

12 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/30 04:32

>>11
I've heard that other companies like g**gle are trying to counter-lobby, though I haven't checked into that

13 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/30 17:39

jewish legal theatrics

14 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/31 00:07

>>4
Gentoo has been ruined by google partnered employees

15 Name: Nameless : 2026/03/31 21:44

>>14
What do you mean

16 Name: Nameless : 2026/04/01 18:44

when are we just going to start seeing alternative operating systems and kernels?

17 Name: Nameless : 2026/04/02 16:58

>>16
Not so much the kernel you have to worry about now but the actual hardware forcing literally anything the government+companies want.

18 Name: Nameless : 2026/04/03 03:48

give up on modernity
buy some cheap as shit microcontrollers and make your own computing stack from the ground up

19 Name: Nameless : 2026/04/03 23:49

>>18
The idea sounds crazy, but this and making your own computer from scratch is a realistic goal considering how dedicated some hikikomori are on the subject of privacy, there is no telling what they could make even if it takes 3 years for each product. I think of this scenario similar to some traditional watch makers that have been in the craft for 70 years and that's all they do.

20 Name: Nameless : 2026/04/08 19:44

it is kind of annoying how much effort you have to put in to escape the whole mess
but 90% of what I can do could be done on a 2006 machine with 2006-era software and not deal with the issues of the modern world

which is a little annoying for the concept of making your own platform since that's still a bit further than what you would get with your own microcontroller based system, even if you were using a fairly modern and fast one (shit, if the Pi Pico could reasonably interface with more RAM, it would just be a useful platform for general purpose computing, and it doesn't even need to be much more RAM, even as little as 8MB or so would work for most non-web browsing, non-video tasks)

the sheer bloat of the modern technology stack has nothing to do with how much memory all the shit you want to do actually needs

21 Name: Nameless : 2026/04/14 05:17

>>20
are you a forth partisan?

22 Name: Nameless : 2026/04/15 02:26

>>21
I have tried to get into the whole Forth mindset since it just seems right up my alley, and while I like the basic idea, I never really could

my brain is too tainted by more C-like languages
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