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minus-squareDathknight@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48arrow-down11·6 months agoThis is bs … Instead of fighting the laws and the people behind it, ‘we’ (as in ‘the community’) infight about some minor commit? If the reason is data privacy, why not also remove ‘realName’, ‘emailAdress’ and ‘location’? 🙄
minus-squarenuxi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·6 months agoThey should also remove the phone number prompt that UNIX has had since before systemd even existed. Your phobe number is an optional part of the GECOS field and has been there for a very long time without anyone freaking out like this.
minus-squareipkpjersi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·6 months agoIt’s a slippery slope, I can’t imagine organizations won’t want more and more control over the public.
minus-squaremetakrakalaka@lemmychan.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months ago Instead of fighting the laws and the people behind it We can’t use the system to change the system.
This is bs …
Instead of fighting the laws and the people behind it, ‘we’ (as in ‘the community’) infight about some minor commit?
If the reason is data privacy, why not also remove ‘realName’, ‘emailAdress’ and ‘location’? 🙄
They should also remove the phone number prompt that UNIX has had since before systemd even existed. Your phobe number is an optional part of the GECOS field and has been there for a very long time without anyone freaking out like this.
It’s a slippery slope, I can’t imagine organizations won’t want more and more control over the public.
We can’t use the system to change the system.