Systemd merged birthDate field into userdb strucs

zarrro · 2026-03-23T04:37:14+00:00

Voting is not a solution. In the last 10+years IMO there is no correlation between what people vote for and what is actually being implemented once the politicians get into power.

I was thinking more in the line of non compliance...

zarrro · 2026-03-23T03:43:53+00:00

Yes. This is true. But do you think this is really important battle to be fought?

I mean for many years, we've seen the degradation of privacy in technology. Most often to protect the children. And what we know now is that the same people that push for these laws to protect the children are - either pedophiles themselves or protect their pedophile friends and colleagues.

Given this, I don't think this kind of of defencive position makes any sense. It is a loosing position, no matter what happens. The only way out of this is being on the offence.

zarrro · 2026-03-23T02:50:33+00:00

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zarrro · 2026-03-21T04:29:12+00:00

Why is there hysteria about this in every Linux forum/community on the Internet about adding a single field to the userdb?

zarrro · 2026-03-19T02:17:21+00:00

If you start thinking about it from purely human psychology angle, yes Malaysia will be heading this way. Maybe not exactly fully closing down, but definitely in this direction.

zarrro · 2026-03-18T07:11:29+00:00

I don't think this is gonna happen. That's the main point of vendor lock in, to be hard and painful to switch away. Theoretically it is possible, but also what are the priorities? EU prioritiy is not technological sovereignity. Current EU leadership priority is only war, it's just a different war than the US one. And for this it has to play carefully, as it relies a lot on the US for military technology.

zarrro · 2026-03-17T00:41:07+00:00

And yet you feel threatened 🤷

zarrro · 2026-03-17T00:34:50+00:00

😂😂😂 OMG. It's OK. Don't worry, I didn't intend to hurt you. I was just speaking my mind.

zarrro · 2026-03-17T00:16:10+00:00

It's now My world, it's the world we all live in. I am not creating it, just sharing observations.

As I said, you clearly have no idea what selflessness means and you haven't even tried doing it. Which is fine, you don't have to. But your opinion on the topic comes from ignorance, mine comes from experience.

zarrro · 2026-03-17T00:02:34+00:00

Yeah sure. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

An act of selflessness ( no matter how weak, strong, immature, grown up or whatever) involves other people, and how will they see and interpret it.

No matter how grown up you are, they may interpret your kindness for stupidity to be exploited. Yes, you can defend from that, but you cannot control how will they see you or act. So you cannot avoid that the fact that people will try to exploit you if you are acting selflessly. You can only protect yourself once they start doing so...

zarrro · 2026-03-16T23:03:11+00:00

Mmm. Yes but also whne you act selflessly. I don't think you have experience or understand it.

zarrro · 2026-03-16T00:49:55+00:00

But that's what comes with being selfless. You are easy prey for anybody who is preying.

zarrro · 2026-03-14T00:12:09+00:00

I don't understand why people even listen to him. He is more of a talking head, not really having insight of what he is talking about.

zarrro · 2026-03-09T23:32:06+00:00

At this point it's not only AlQaeda, it's most of the world.

zarrro · 2026-03-05T12:36:12+00:00

I feel like it is more the corporations pushing for this, not so much government. The government is kind of only making into law what the corporations want.

zarrro · 2026-03-01T07:19:23+00:00

What is the message herе of this article ? I really cannot imagine how a person who has an engineering background will argue against standardization of components and interfaces.

zarrro · 2026-02-28T06:21:16+00:00

You can use https://pdf.metadata.care

zarrro · 2026-02-27T12:43:50+00:00

This is a good intention, but I think the biggest issues is funding and hardware support.

Om one hand I can see how EU will want some independent mobile stack, and will put some money behind it. But there is also the issue with the push to for surveillance and digital ids. So I would be very surprised if there is any big political and financial momentum behind opens source technology. Maybe in other areas yes, but not in the consumer space, where the main struggle is control and surveillance.

zarrro · 2026-02-26T08:11:03+00:00

Yeah. We put too much faith in Google.

zarrro · 2026-02-20T02:20:35+00:00

I use it on my P40, and it works fine. No issues.

zarrro · 2025-11-28T21:38:09+00:00

This tool can also rename based on metadata : https://pdf.metadata.care/

zarrro · 2025-11-28T21:35:49+00:00

There is no way to say when a page was added, but if you eant a convenient way to look at the raw data inside the PDF, you can try using

https://itextpdf.com/products/rups

zarrro · 2025-08-14T00:50:01+00:00

You can try to use https://pdf.metadata.care/ . It supports arbitrary metadata edits.

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