Looking into systemd complying in advance with fascism ("age verification"), I was curious who is employing Lennart Poettering these days.
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I am skeptical of Ageless Linux's argument that the motivation behind these laws is to make it impossible/expensive for FOSS operating systems to comply. I think the real motivation is to get ahead of the discourse about how Big Tech harms children. They want to claim that they're doing their part to protect children. That would be a great smokescreen to distract from efforts for regulations to make them change their tech to make it not harmful to anyone, regardless of age.
@be this is word for word the EFF line about regulations as monopoly protections. in some cases this can be true but i recall they always mention it regarding stuff that affects facebook, which results in the EFF claiming facebook regs actually help facebook.
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@be this is word for word the EFF line about regulations as monopoly protections. in some cases this can be true but i recall they always mention it regarding stuff that affects facebook, which results in the EFF claiming facebook regs actually help facebook.
@be oh neat facebook involvement https://floss.social/@be/116259428771089394
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@Ember @be think your instincts are spot-on; i recalled a previous instance of propaganda laundering https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/116261919716350723
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@Ember and embarassingly, they're handling this better than real distros 🥴
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WARNING: This operating system contains GAY known to the State of California to trans the kids.
I am starting to seriously consider switching distros to one that does not use systemd based on these recent events... maybe I should try Guix. Looks like it has KDE packaged now, unlike the last time I looked at it.
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I am starting to seriously consider switching distros to one that does not use systemd based on these recent events... maybe I should try Guix. Looks like it has KDE packaged now, unlike the last time I looked at it.
@be What's the systemd connection? I've been watching the age discussion from the sidelines but not closely enough to know how that's related.
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Looking into systemd complying in advance with fascism ("age verification"), I was curious who is employing Lennart Poettering these days. Turns out he and some other systemd developers recently made a startup...
@be he was microsoft for a long time iirc
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I am starting to seriously consider switching distros to one that does not use systemd based on these recent events... maybe I should try Guix. Looks like it has KDE packaged now, unlike the last time I looked at it.
@be not sure kde and gnome are all white in this. I may be uselessly suspicious.
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In case you missed systemd complying in advance with fascism... https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954
@be Ah, one more reason to dislike systemd. Guess Devuan or something then.. Or all the way back to my bsd days..
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@be What's the systemd connection? I've been watching the age discussion from the sidelines but not closely enough to know how that's related.
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@be not sure kde and gnome are all white in this. I may be uselessly suspicious.
@f4grx They're not. The XDG Desktop Portal PR was made by a KDE developer. https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922
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@be he was microsoft for a long time iirc
@f4grx yep I am aware
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