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Solumbran

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  • Happy Transgender Day of Visibility everyone

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  • So either you are very stupid, or intentionally playing like you are.

    You litterally told someone "wow, you're statistically going to commit suicide" and you're claiming that it's not pushing towards suicide?

    Fuck off, you're a pathetic piece of shit, no one needs you around here. Go back to 4chan or whatever shithole you fit in, and never come back here.

  • Happy Transgender Day of Visibility everyone

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  • Shut up, you're a piece of shit

    Don't try to push people to suicide then blame it on stats. Just shut up.

  • Squirrels are ‘vaping’ e-cigarettes after mistaking fruity aromas for food

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  • But everything is fine

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • And big linux groups cannot remove age verification as easily as users can, as a big group is likely to be sued while an individual isn't as much.

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • Generally provided by the ISP, no?

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • Good for you.

    Now what about others that are not in your situation? What if this gets flagged as a suspicious behavior? What if your ISP blocks access to devices that are not allowed by a third party (government or company)?

    You can always make a slippery slope. The difference is that complying for now brings nothing bad, not complying brings more focus and puts a target on linux and its users.

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • I don't disagree with anything here.

    But my point wasn't "there's nothing to worry about", it was "an age field is the minimum they can do, and blaming them for it is pointless".

    My point is that this law is already there, and the fight needs to be brought where it matters, and the code of linux systems is not what is going to change politics. When someone is held at gunpoint, you don't yell at them to fight back and curse them when they don't, but you attack the attacker.

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • As I said, it's a loss. It is not going to bring anything good, and can only bring bad stuff.

    But my point is that the alternative of ignoring this law would just worsen the situation.

    If you want to fight a law, you need to do it with meaningful measures. You find flaws, you revolt, but you don't just ignore the law and hope to not be attacked for it.

    If a big linux distro does it, it will lead them to endless legal battles that will ruin them, and then what?

    The strategy here is to accept the loss, mitigate it as much as possible, and attack the source, which is politics, governments, and popular support and understanding.

    Explain to people why it's bad, burn down the government, and fix the system. If we only fight the symptoms when they target us, we've already lost.

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • And what would refusing a field do?

    What needs to be done is basically a revolt against current governments and capitalism, not nitpicking every privacy-invading law that comes, and then waiting patiently for the next one to come.

    You'd rather put a big target on linux systems for stupid fucks to label it as "the big danger for our kids" which would just bring nothing good.

    You want to stop taking hits, then stop waiting for them and then pretend that dodging is the only solution.

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • It could be a slippery slope. That's why the point is not to just accept it and move on, but to comply while pushing back against it.

    And complying right away, but with a bullshit field, is a good way to signal "we do not agree, and we're going to always find a way to fight back".

    Taking a hit to avoid defeat, does not mean surrendering. It just means that you need to recognise when a battle is lost. In a way, the other side of the slippery slope is the sunk cost fallacy, where you refuse to admit that something is a lost cause and you keep on pushing, making things worse.

    It's a matter of balance and reason, which people nowadays reaaaally struggle with.

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • Or you know, just getting a lot of accesses blocked, your ISP blocking you, etc.

    No matter how you put it, it's more risk than inputting a bullshit field at install.

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • I don't know what people expect.

    All big linux distros are going to be quickly a target, because the people who like age verification laws like that hate the idea of free software.

    Putting a dummy, useless age input, is a good way to comply maliciously, and can be easily reverted if these stupid laws ever get removed.

    It wouldn't surprise me if obvious ways to bypass it appear a few seconds after the changes are validated.

    The alternative is that these systems could be outawed in a lot of places, which would have a much more negative impact than an age field.

    War is about knowing to take a hit to avoid defeat, sometimes.

  • Surge in Systemd forks after the latest changes

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  • Because fuck is a swear word, the other is used as a slur.

  • Lemmings

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  • I love that this post is literally doing what it's trying to criticize.

    Also, I'll give you satisfaction and say: if you feel the need to defend the fascists, you're one of them, so go lick a nazi's ass and fuck off.

  • OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral

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  • Better title:

    Astral products now defunct, SlopMachines make another victim.

  • Fast Software: More Programmers, Not Fewer

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  • Yeah I don't have the mental energy to decrypt your messages, you're just saying a bunch on nonsense and I'm not really wanting to spend so long trying to see what a slopbro is trying to say.

    Have a nice day

  • My little state violence

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  • France for now, until Macron makes his own militia to take control of France

  • Fast Software: More Programmers, Not Fewer

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  • I have no idea what you're talking about.

    For a book, there are per-unit costs of the materials, ink, paper, manufacturing, etc.

    For an ebook, these are void. So the cost should be, at the very least, much lower than a physical book. Even if you take into account the effort of writing the book and such, it's an initial cost, so it doesn't justify a high price.

    The point being, physical items have costs related to their physicality, digital items don't, so they shouldn't cost as much. It's pretty straightforward.

    And to loop back to my initial comment: that's why it's absurd to compare AIs, which are just bullshit for lazy sloppy people, and manufacturing processes, which come from the need to reduce the manufacturing costs of physical items. There is no manufacturing cost of software, so there is no need to mass-produce as fast as possible, and so there is just no reason to let devs throw up slop garbage to go "faster"

    Also, on a side note: programming with AIs don't make you code faster, it just increases the amount of bugs and problems with your code. Obviously, since you're just using a nonsense generator to try to produce a complex piece of digital machinery.

  • Fast Software: More Programmers, Not Fewer

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  • What? How do you even reach such a conclusion?