Anno domini 2019 Fri, 8 Mar 13:15:48 +0000 Rowland Penny via Dng scripsit: > On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 13:47:40 +0100 > Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> wrote: > > > > > re all, > > > > any thoughts about this new systemd-made thing that freedesktop > > immediately "standardized" (whatever is their procedure for that, > > likely smoking cigars among old-boys or so) > > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html > > > > its easy to replace by a script of course that's not the problem (the > > manpage suggests to use a systemd application for that, not a joke!) > > but I'm curious if anyone has some background and thoughts about this > > > > AFAIK chromium started checking it and its absence on Devuan Beowulf > > is reported as an error, so we may have to work around this. > > > > but first things first: do we want /etc/machine-id? and how? > > > > I would have thought the first question is 'What is it used for ?'
Surveillance, nothing else. IMO it would be nice to regenerate it every time the file is read. > I don't seem to have it and everything works without it. It's on my beowulf installations, and I didn't even know that it was there :-/ Nik > > Rowland > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
