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Now this is what open source development should look like. I cannot believe a few days ago I was thumbing through an email thread on freedesktop.org about how t
by akersten 7mo ago
Now this is what open source development should look like. I cannot believe a few days ago I was thumbing through an email thread on freedesktop.org about how they could implement the mandatory government API in dbus. Can they not read their own domain name?
- kykat 7mo agoThe API seems like a funny joke anyway, `sudo setage 12987123`, done.
- matthewfcarlson 7mo agoOh nice! I’ve been wanting to ask someone of your age, how was the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum?
- amarant 7mo agoThe climate was optimal. Everything else was kinda mid tbh.
- lavela 7mo agoIt being Linux those would obviously be seconds so they are roughly half a year old.
- fc417fc802 7mo agoUnless it represents seconds since the epoch which would make it a birthday - May 31st 1970.
- pocksuppet 7mo agoIt's designed for parents to enact parental controls on their children. If you're root, you're the parent. Obviously root can turn off parental controls.
- kykat 7mo agoI wouldn't be so sure, I think the ultimate goal is to link your network activity to your government id, just like the way it's done in China. So the only root left is the government basically.
- pocksuppet 7mo agoAre we talking about what actually happened, or are we talking about doomsday fantasies?
- throawayonthe 7mo agowe are talking about doomsday fantasies and equating them to doomsday fantasies about what is supposedly happening in china
- delusional 7mo agoWell I think the goal is to link it with hackernews account such that ycombinator can accuratly measure how many of their startups you're interacting with.
- lambda 7mo agoThe whole point of the California/Colorado laws is to provide an alternative to that. The whole point is that it provides a privacy preserving way to provide a signal about whether someone is in a particular age bracket, without requiring any kind of third party ID verification. I am so puzzled by everyone who objects so strongly to these operating system based opt in systems; all it does is provide for a way for a parent to indicate the age of a child's account, and an API for apps and browsers to get that information. If you're the owner/admin of a system, you get to set that information however you want, and it's required that it only provides ranges and not specific birthdays in order to be privacy preserving.
- macintux 7mo ago> I am so puzzled by everyone who objects so strongly to these operating system based opt in systems The government legislating APIs is an uncomfortable precedent given the culture wars that are raging right now. There seems little reason to expect this will stop here.
- charcircuit 7mo agoAssociating open source with projects that brazenly violate the law is not what open source should look like.
- 3842056935870 7mo agoIt is when those laws were passed by totalitarian idiots.
- charcircuit 7mo agoBeing passed by a "totalitarian idiot" does not mean that a law is not valid.
- Tostino 7mo agoWhat a serf mindset.
- iamnothere 7mo agoDon’t be so unkind to serfs, most of them were merely stuck in an impossible situation, and to my knowledge most were not eunuchs.
- charcircuit 7mo agoWanting society to be run effectively and not be blighted with rule breakers does not make me a serf. I have used my free will to decide that I want to live in and respect society.
- thepasch 7mo agoThat would be a lot easier to believe if this law in question actually, you know, helped society. Or did anything to affect how it runs, let alone “effectively.” As it stands, it reads more like “I’ve used my free will to decide to suspend all critical thinking and accept that anything that anyone with authority decides should be a rule must be unquestioningly accepted.”