CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@nileane why do we need another one of these bloody things

Actually exhausted by the age verification shit. I’m done with fighting it I think. Honestly don’t see an end to it without a serious social and political shift/revolution. The kind where the people who architected and implemented it end up in prison for the rest of their lives.

@WooShell =[ probably asked before but no local options?

it's a "smashing it down with rain/sleet but still generating 1kW" weird sort of day. #solar

@GrapheneOS good on you. Don't give in to the fascists and fearmongers.

@cas this is open source, we're never going to have a billion dollar lobby or enough political pressure to change this stuff. But we can fight. If you live in the U.S., in California, and you are the main maintainer of a distro, then you have a decision to make about how to proceed. That's it. Anything beyond that, especially actions by European residents supporting this crap is purely proactive compliance with a law that doesn't affect them at all.

@cas nobody compelled systemd to do this. Some commenters on the original PR made that much clear.

Nothing/nobody compelled systemd to do this. It was a choice to make this easier for others. Greasing the wheels of this awful concept.

@cas so basically:

"well, if we're going to slide into fascism and real-id laws, might as well make it user-friendly!"

nope, nope nope nope. Fight this shit every step of the way. Couldn't disagree more strongly with every single thing you've said.

Principles matter, my man. Sometimes they don't make sense, they don't fit in nicely with how an ideal world should be, sometimes they make things more difficult. That's the nature of boycotts, of refusal, of being led by your heart and not by your brain sometimes.

It's an optional field in the userdb JSON object. It's not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it's standardized iff people want to store the date there, but it's entirely optional.

Lie by omission here. Clearly the reason for this being added is AV. Imagine it was a "sexualOrientation or "ethnicBackground" field that just got added because $government suddenly made that sort of thing a hot topic... "oh it's just part of the JSON schema, it's not up to us to decide how people use those fields! Fuck off. systemd should have no knowledge of any of that. It's irrelevant to the operation of the system.

Playing into the hands of fascists and he knows it and doesn't want it discussed or highlighted.

All together now: fuck systemd

First to tongue the boot when it comes to this age verification shit I see.

@greem yeah that's the best thing I've read all day. Calling it Denice for ever now.

@aphyr for sure. I think I’ve been jaded by any involvement I have had with them though. It’s just staffed by people who either believe their own hype and are actively invested in this attack on freedom of expression, or people who are ambivalent and just there for the cushy job/pension. Talking to them has achieved precisely nothing so far, try as many of us did to change things. I think energy is better spent either protecting ourselves from them (driving more people to decentralised platforms and out of their reach) or undermining their efforts in any legal way possible.

@aphyr We're constantly told by people "Ofcom have no choice in this, they're just poor innocent victims that have to enforce a law set down by idiots". Frankly, why even bother engaging with them if that's the case? Reminded of a famous lecture - "Don't Talk To The Police".

@twipped definitely thought these were LED COBs at first.

@jim sounds like something one of my old bosses would have gone to a motivational seminar on and come back as a total zealot for. Probably what has happened here.

@G33KatWork yeah, buying this hurt, but... not as much as spending most of my waking life sat in a shit chair will. Has quickly ended up being one of the best things I've ever bought.

@G33KatWork Herman Miller seem like one of those companies that still does things the old way. Hasn't been rotted to the core by people intent on gouging every last bit of profit out even at the cost of making a shittier product or providing shittier service.

(Sent from my Aeron)

@tencate does it still have the dino DNA processing software on it?!

Enough negativity though, it’s furrrrrrsuit Friday