<![CDATA[As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad.]]>RE: https://toot.teckids.org/@nik/116540880770634816

As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad.

If I was banned from being part of tech communities until the age of 16 or even 18 I would've never been able to learn all I did. I would've never been able to truly get into FOSS.

I would've never had a chance to become who I now am.

Age verification is literally killing the ability for kids and teens to excitedly participate and learn cool stuff and learn how to have digital agency.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/d169bb9e-0f13-44ed-a2e7-77ab16494514/as-someone-who-has-been-programming-since-being-a-young-teenager-things-like-this-make-me-enormously-sad.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:52:04 GMTSun, 10 May 2026 08:55:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 23:21:24 GMT]]>@SylvieLorxu

I was 14 years old when I started learning programming, in 1976.

I was 19 years old when I started work, doing professional programming. And much of my first work was rewriting bad code written by a certain "senior consultant" who was running his own business. Also, customers favored my well-tested work over that of my boss.

With today's computer availability, it's common for six year olds to start programming, with minecraft and similar. I support that.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JeffGrigg/statuses/116552845495250621https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JeffGrigg/statuses/116552845495250621Sun, 10 May 2026 23:21:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 22:38:56 GMT]]>@SylvieLorxu same, there's a direct link to my participation on the gentoo forums as a teenager to the skills that I employ every day in my professional and personal life some 20 years later

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://l3ib.org/users/smn/statuses/116552678532723850https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://l3ib.org/users/smn/statuses/116552678532723850Sun, 10 May 2026 22:38:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 22:12:28 GMT]]>@iwein @lunareclipse @SylvieLorxu i wonder if that's the idea - to kill the next generation of real programming talent in order to force everyone to use the slop forever]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://yourwalls.today/objects/b332c056-4008-4e89-ac3a-d9bb38258279https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://yourwalls.today/objects/b332c056-4008-4e89-ac3a-d9bb38258279Sun, 10 May 2026 22:12:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 19:02:21 GMT]]>@murdoc Reminds me of how I loved to read books as a kid, until school took all the joy out of it by forcing me to read books I hated and then write about the meaning of them instead of just, you know, allowing me joy and allowing me to talk about the books I did love 😕

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/SylvieLorxu/statuses/116551826906496498https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/SylvieLorxu/statuses/116551826906496498Sun, 10 May 2026 19:02:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 18:50:14 GMT]]>@annehargreaves "Why are all the kids always indoors?!?! Why don't they play outside?!?!", ask people putting literal "mosquito" noise machines in public places to annoy kids away.

"Why are kids always bored?!?! Why do they always cause trouble?!?! Why are they always upset?!?!", ask people who then decided kids weren't allowed to have any online communities left after killing all their offline hanging spots, giving them literally nothing to do...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/SylvieLorxu/statuses/116551779244408614https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/SylvieLorxu/statuses/116551779244408614Sun, 10 May 2026 18:50:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 18:10:07 GMT]]>@SylvieLorxu I contributed to BOINC for a year before telling the main developer that I was 15.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/nicolas17/statuses/116551621541476315https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/nicolas17/statuses/116551621541476315Sun, 10 May 2026 18:10:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 18:07:46 GMT]]>@mothwaves @SylvieLorxu I regret voting for all the treaties now

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551612299919834https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551612299919834Sun, 10 May 2026 18:07:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 18:05:03 GMT]]>@mothwaves @SylvieLorxu I lived in three fascist countries and it seems like a preview rather than a warning

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551601558348959https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551601558348959Sun, 10 May 2026 18:05:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 18:01:51 GMT]]>@iwein @lunareclipse @SylvieLorxu ...or are leaving the field in their droves, sickened by the twisted distortions that ignorant and greedy execs have imposed on the practice of software development.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/fluidlogic/statuses/116551588982367900https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/fluidlogic/statuses/116551588982367900Sun, 10 May 2026 18:01:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 17:38:07 GMT]]>@mothwaves @SylvieLorxu so the EU which came out of the ashes of a Europe destroyed by fascism has given up and embraced fascism

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551495677430719https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551495677430719Sun, 10 May 2026 17:38:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 17:18:54 GMT]]>@TheOneDoc @SylvieLorxu agreed

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551420099043741https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551420099043741Sun, 10 May 2026 17:18:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 17:01:09 GMT]]>@SylvieLorxu not just tech my Scottish godson started university at 17. Consequently he couldn't sign up for loads of student societies because he was under 18 and they would have to comply with child protection legislation. No sailing, although he'd sailed dinghy and yachts for 9 years by then, no kendo, etc, etc.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/users/SK53/statuses/116551350302022225https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/users/SK53/statuses/116551350302022225Sun, 10 May 2026 17:01:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 16:19:28 GMT]]>@bunny @SylvieLorxu The EU lets the citizen fight alone against national systems

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551186400815439https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551186400815439Sun, 10 May 2026 16:19:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 16:11:52 GMT]]>@SylvieLorxu
I started to learn programming when I was about 10, but the internet didn't come around until much later. By then the crappy computer classes in school had pretty much killed my enthusiasm for it. I wonder what it might have been like for me if I had had online communities to help me while I still had the drive.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/murdoc/statuses/116551156562879123https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/murdoc/statuses/116551156562879123Sun, 10 May 2026 16:11:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 16:08:51 GMT]]>@bunny @SylvieLorxu If you are in France and live and work in France EU rights are fine. This is the same for Denmark. The problem is when you are from France and move to Denmark.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551144641692254https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551144641692254Sun, 10 May 2026 16:08:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 15:56:18 GMT]]>@bunny @SylvieLorxu My issue is endlessly having to explain over and over and over and over and over again that I am from an EU country and no we didn't Brexit. It is exhausting and stops me from living in the EU as it is relentless and I don't have the 4 years it tales to take a legal case to prove "rights" I already am supposed to have

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551095314119405https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551095314119405Sun, 10 May 2026 15:56:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 15:54:02 GMT]]>@TheOneDoc @SylvieLorxu I am from the EU even though it’s painfully obvious the EU wants us to disappear and be replaced by the UK

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551086388844882https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116551086388844882Sun, 10 May 2026 15:54:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 15:48:34 GMT]]>@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social "The chameleon can change itself to any color the community wants, as long as it's washed out grey."

-- Some mid-level MBA

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://soc.jra.sh/objects/b31c538b-d306-44f3-b592-f03cba3c551bhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://soc.jra.sh/objects/b31c538b-d306-44f3-b592-f03cba3c551bSun, 10 May 2026 15:48:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 15:48:17 GMT]]>@SylvieLorxu you know who has always sucked? Apple

(god i can't believe i remember this story)

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Crispyking writes "Finlay Dobbie has been a leading contributor to the Darwin project, most notably helping track down the infamous PPP-hang bug. He's been nominated to become a Darwin contributor (which comes with limited check-in privileges) but when going through the process, Apple found out he'...

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xantronix.social/users/xan/statuses/116551063800186300https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xantronix.social/users/xan/statuses/116551063800186300Sun, 10 May 2026 15:48:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 15:23:08 GMT]]>@bunny @SylvieLorxu What will happen when you move country or cross a border? Europe is SHIT at consistent rules.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116550964926271131https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/humanhorseshoes/statuses/116550964926271131Sun, 10 May 2026 15:23:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 15:11:16 GMT]]>@lunareclipse all of that +seniors are not teaching juniors, but babysitting stochastic parrots instead.

🏴‍☠️Bring back the joy!🏴‍☠️

@SylvieLorxu

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/iwein/statuses/116550918217163337https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/iwein/statuses/116550918217163337Sun, 10 May 2026 15:11:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 14:41:43 GMT]]>@SylvieLorxu Oh no. First, stop kids exploring the offline world (road danger, nasty people). Then stop them exploring the online world (porn, nasty people). What are they supposed to do?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/annehargreaves/statuses/116550802051921983https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/annehargreaves/statuses/116550802051921983Sun, 10 May 2026 14:41:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 14:31:55 GMT]]>@SylvieLorxu @s_bergmann The damage we do right now with LLMs and people not beeing able to afford computers and prohibiting the next generation to actually learn will fuck us over so much. Any other country that doesn’t follow those tech Nazis bullshit will take over the world

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116550763508593166https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://famichiki.jp/users/gullevek/statuses/116550763508593166Sun, 10 May 2026 14:31:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad. on Sun, 10 May 2026 14:17:27 GMT]]>@humanhorseshoes @SylvieLorxu yep Bavaria, Germany

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/TheOneDoc/statuses/116550706600899772https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/TheOneDoc/statuses/116550706600899772Sun, 10 May 2026 14:17:27 GMT