Ok so XDG and Flatpak are working to kiss the ring on fascist laws.

[marta@corteximplant.net]

@luana while I agree wholeheartedly that these laws are awful and need to be protested. It's not feasible for a legal entity like the orgs maintaining open source software to not comply with the laws, they would be breaking the law if they don't comply. These pull requests are only for the specification, the enforcement to use the spec still lies in the hands of distros, governments, and since linux is freely modifiable, the end user as well. The spec needs to exist because the legal requirement is there. Isn't shaming implementers of the spec effectively shooting the messenger?

[ahto@tiggi.es]

@luana how neat, they have a law that assists with the marketing towards people of different age groups without having to do the work themselves.

California and tech peeps responsible for this or aiding in it. Just stop, this just makes things worse.

"Worried about <online service> corrupting your kid? Don't you worry because we have streamlined it to corrupt them at particular points in their life and also get their DoB when a certain bracket gets reached"

[0x4d6165@transfem.social]

@luana@wetdry.world love how they closed comments. open source in action lmao

[2something@transfem.social]

@hazelnoot@enby.life @luana@wetdry.world Fediblock Dylan M Taylor

[2something@transfem.social]

@hazelnoot@enby.life @luana@wetdry.world "Ordinary people talking to other ordinary people over the internet is the greatest danger to children imaginable, but talking to a chatbot which gives you bad "medical advice" that kills you is totally okay."
-Dylan M Taylor

EDIT: Typo accidentally made it ableist. It has now been fixed.

[pastelfluffyfox@transfem.social]

@luana@wetdry.world i'd give it a week before people release a fork that's stripped this shit out lmao

and that goes for any distro that bends the knee, too. linux is free and open and we have the right to tell these lawmakers to piss off.

[marta@corteximplant.net]

@zaire @luana so effectively "ethical production under fascism is impossible," honestly probably you're right, but how to fix this? don't comply and wait until the foss orgs get fined?

[plombirka@mk.ilyamikcoder.com]

@marta@corteximplant.net @luana@wetdry.world @zaire@fedi.absturztau.be

but how to fix this? don't comply and wait until the foss orgs get fined?

we have decentralization for a reason. if we cant fight these laws, we at least can hide and try to be too small targets for governments so they probably will not notice us. idk tho.

[marta@corteximplant.net]

@plombirka @luana @zaire well we can still do that while big projects create the spec the users and smaller distros etc can just not use them

[luana@wetdry.world]

@plombirka @marta @zaire if a software has that spec its fascist

[plombirka@mk.ilyamikcoder.com]

@zaire@fedi.absturztau.be @marta@corteximplant.net @luana@wetdry.world me, because i'm not sure i wrote everything as it should been written bc english isnt my first language. cw shitposting there wasnt about the subject.

[steff@soc.femme.cat]

@luana@wetdry.world It's very disturbing how eager these projects are to jump on the bandwagon of assimilation and fascism.