Does this systemd change facilitate future verification softwares? Definitely. Will it become a part of systemd? Extremely unlikely. Should systemd rebel and refuse to include anything facilitating these disturbing laws? Eh, probably.

But let’s not blow this change out of proportions. This is a way for systemd to not aggressively fight the laws, without enabling them either. This field changes nothing, and you will still be able to use distros that don’t even employ the field at all. They might become illegal to use in the land of the free, but that’s a separate issue that this change does not impact.

I’m not your search engine. If you don’t see it and refuse to search for it, that’s your problem. I’m not here to convince anyone.

I’ll let you have a look at the difference of opinions between LFI and every other left party. All those differences are issues they refuse to compromise on :)

Do you really draw the line at a date of birth field, when every linux system has fields for full name and address for every user account?

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If they don’t need them, why aren’t they winning? Only time they won recently was… When they compromised and united. Crazy how that works.

If they had no cards, LFI wouldn’t need them. You’re contradicting yourself.

Yes, they should compromise. They’re obviously not big enough to win on their own, so they should compromise like all the others. They refuse to do so, and the logical consequence is that other parties refuse to join them.

If you think that having more popularity makes them the absolute authority of the left and every other party should bow to their ideas, we have nothing to discuss.

They refuse to compromise with parties less liberal than them as well, by the way. They refuse to compromise no matter the agenda.

No, they want the other left parties to agree to all their conditions and refuse to compromise on their positions. I’m all for a united left but LFI is a big part of the problem.

There is always major differences between municipal and national elections. I’ll agree with you when it comes to national elections. But the socialists have been leading Paris since 2001. Both mayors since have been reelected after their first mandate. So, they must be doing something right at the city level! And now, Paris is about to have a third socialist mayor in a row, amounting to at least 31 continuous years of socialist leadership in Paris.

I am disappointed with their politics at a national level. But when I was living in Paris I was pretty happy with what they were doing with the city.

He doesn’t have to liquidate shit, none of them do. They borrow against their holdings.

I’m not talking about change, I’m talking about progress. Progress is not necessarily positive.

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No. Each generation was fucked in their own way, regardless of the two edges of the progress that they grew up with.

I’m not saying everything is lovely and we are at the peak of civilization. I’m saying that every form of progress comes with challenges and downsides, and this saying of “Next generation will be fucked” is a cognitive bias every generation has had for a pretty long time.

They also have positive sides.

I don’t know if I expressed myself that poorly (I was pretty tired after all), but I did not mean at all that there are no downsides to any of these. I meant that despite these sayings, every generation so far has ended up as fine as the previous ones.

Are they really more fucked than generations who didn’t have access to social media, internet, and video games? It seems to me that you are biased by the negative effects these had, and ignoring the positive ones.

Saying that they haven’t been fucked is reminiscent of my grandparents saying ADHD and Anxiety aren’t real.

How is that in any way comparable? I’m not saying the downsides of social media, internet, video games are not real, I’m saying “People growing up with X will be fucked” is a saying that every generation has been saying, ignoring the positive impacts. This is a cognitive bias in the likes of the rosy retrospection.

The generations that will grow up with AI will be fucked.

Eh. That’s something every single generation before us in at least the past 150 years has been saying about other new society-changing stuff. They’ll be fine, society just changes.

Generations that will grow up with social media will be fucked.

Generations that will grow up with internet will be fucked.

Generations that will grow up with video games will be fucked.

Generations that will grow up with computers will be fucked.

Generations that will grow up with morning-after pills will be fucked.

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Of course. Nothing is black and white. This was a real issue, but still abused by anti-EU propaganda to weaken us.

This is not helped by the Linux community who in a general rule are not particularly accommodating towards novices.

Luckily this trend is shifting! More and more linux distros oriented towards users new to linux, and helpful communities.

It’s not just about not using it, it’s about punishing a company breaking the law, profiting from it, and feeding an authoritarian regime.