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Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support (itsfoss.com)
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[โ€“] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What is there to evolve? Just keep it up to date with the mainstream project while applying this one patch. This is as useful as the signatures that prohibit use of comments to train LLMs.

That sounds super easy on paper. In practice nobody is going to do this long-term.

The kind of people who get massively upset about this are not the kind of people that are going to make a long term commitment to actually doing anything. Forking systemd is performative activism, that's it.

[โ€“] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 5 hours ago

I know, 100% agree. It's not a lot of work but people will quickly find another thing to get angry about and move on. Trying to fork systemd over this feature is completely pointless.