silverneedle
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- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 25 minutes ago:
I think you vastly over estimate the importance of the reddit/lemmy-sphere freaking out over this.
I don’t. The people I know in real life don’t take likely to the changes.
And the more insane the slippery slopes you imagine skiing down […]
This is the fallacy fallacy. There is a precedent for freaking out. Foreign routers being banned, countries and regions stating that this is only the beginning for age verification, you name it. Anyone who submits to that in any way unambiguously invites the new order that is enforced upon them, I say that in regard to systemd specifically.
The fact that there isn’t a serious programmer making a fork[…]
No serious programmer is forking systemd because systemd is more or less doing kernel tasks besides the Linux kernel. This violates GNU best practices. Not to mention openrc and plenty of other init systems existing as a yet uncompromised alternative. Also you are twisting what I am saying, I specifically am not promoting the fork in the article.
If it’s the vast majority of Linux users, how come there was not one that’s read the systemd docs?
You didn’t see the barrage of critism under the pull request, did you? Makes me wonder if you read anything at all.
milktoast law
The law is not at all non-trivial or milquetoast. With ID verification and other methods of age verification you absolutely can unmask users online if states demand APIs be implemented.
You sound like a narc btw!
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 7 hours ago:
Finally someone who’s read into the issue
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 7 hours ago:
They don’t publish an OS so they have no obligation to do anything more, actual implementation would have to happen in other projects
Why are the people who decide on changes to systemd implementing stuff that the vast majority of Linux users vehemently reject?
What this is, is a spite-fork
No one deeply cares about the spite fork. It’s weird that commentators have suddenly become very acclimatised to the systemd changes. A few days ago people were asking themselves why a rando got through with an intensely disliked pull request and now we are here.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 7 hours ago:
Context matters. Systemd did this as a reaction to frankly insane laws. They didn’t have to do anything like this, yet they did and comparing this to changing and creating files manually in vim misses the point entirely. Intentionally doing something is very different from a feature being natively present.
YOU control what info goes there, if any. It mandates NOTHING.
Until closed source or even open source programs demand an ID verified age from the OS. When that happens you are forced to unmask yourself and the systemd shit is the first step to making such an API possible. It normalizes genuinely insane demands that add nothing for the users except compliance.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 7 hours ago:
No, what they have done is kowtowing.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 7 hours ago:
What systemd has done is the following: They went “we speak for the distros utilizing our program now”
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 9 hours ago:
Being prompted to submit an ID is not useful for making decisions in the here and now? As far as I understand it, this is the concrete danger. California lawmakers and lawmakers from elsewhere have indicated that this is only the beginning.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 9 hours ago:
I don’t know what this derailment is ultimately trying to say honestly.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 10 hours ago:
Will you still say that when they implement ID checking functionality?
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 20 hours ago:
For your future practice, if anything I am a narcissist.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 20 hours ago:
Well thank you for your therapy session :) I appreciate it
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 20 hours ago:
Oh snap, what is this?!?! You psychopath!
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 20 hours ago:
your perceived property
You are insinuating that I view people as property. Nice attempt at an inversion. That is not the case, I consider anyone a friend that I am one being with. Friends can only be the people that you sync up with, I’m sure you’d agree.
Have you been a victim of abuse or trauma?
To the untrained reader this is an especially effective rhetoric tactic to attack the person you are talking with. You go show everybody how insane or mentally unstable I am for having merely having read those theoreticians of the 19th century and applying the knowledge. Please read what Mr. Marx wrote in the last edition of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (and all of his other works, along with those of Bakhunin, Kropotkin, Lassalle, Luxemburg and so on. Extra points for reading every little critique people had against any theorist).
- To answer your question: I had a loving childhood
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 20 hours ago:
I think your values are sociopathic and destructive
I’d like to carefully disagree here. If someone took a friend from me, or abused them terribly without any apology, I would want them to die. I think this is a very empathetic and prosocial reaction which is not at all sociopathic. Think of the time female bonobos brutally killed a member of their cohort for killing a defenseless baby that truly couldn’t act in its own interest.
What is sociopathic however is that we salute them troops because they keep the country safe by squashing alleged threats. Only a minority stands to benefit from what we currently consider good, those who make the world work in concrete terms will never meet those beneficiaries. Workers have their lives exhausted and brains forcefed with shit for a section of people that would forever remain abstract to them. A prosocial reaction by workers would spell Armageddon on the current state of the world, and believe me, that is most likely what you are pointing towards but still are too scared to consider the full implications of.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 21 hours ago:
I reject the notion of objective goods as that is a contradiction in adjectives and neither is it in my specific interests that everyone has food, water, healthcare, education and shelter.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 21 hours ago:
It is exactly so that everyone does not know what “better” and “improvement” means. Someone who is of a more libertarian persuasion because they got lucky with Bitcoin might see talk about improvements and betterment that entails it being impossible to own a private recreational nuke as being inconsistent. Betterment in your case can mean that a small business owner has his property forcibly converted into communally operated MoP. Those that enforce change in their interest might see their concept of humanity warped beyond recognition in a most certainly traumatic process of historical necessity. It’s kind of like saying the immune system is a good thing, for the viruses it’s not and autoimmune reactions are a huge complication to the lives of organisms with immune systems.
With good and bad any further explication stops. Something is good. Okay. Why is it good? Because it is good. It nearly always plays out circularly like this, except if there is a scientific process of criticism that spawns from this line of questioning. The latter almost never occurs. All of morality, and much of ethics is circular.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 23 hours ago:
What if one’s mental health issues come from being poor?
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 23 hours ago:
If we optimized for human happiness and quality of life instead of profits we’d have a far better world
Let’s respectfully leave the moralism in the church. We wouldn’t have a “better” world, whatever good and better are, we would have a world (an abstraction, I prefer the term “set of social relations”) that is in the interest of all that work, will work, and have worked to sustain reproduction of life, i.e. worked to continue to live.
- Comment on YSK: Economic Abuse is a Thing 2 days ago:
Corrected the post.
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- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 6 days ago:
I don’t think Trump is trying to do anything. There is a state that has an interest in wrecking the economy to reestablish its power over a region that has become less and less manageable by a central authority like the US government. When that happens Sam Altman and many others will be put to trial to make an example and show the rest who’s the boss.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 6 days ago:
Lmao. Expecting this guy to be at the very least imprisoned after his company goes belly-up
- Comment on Digg Shut Down 1 week ago:
lmao
- Comment on Team turns DNA into a rewritable hard drive 1 week ago:
Radiation is easy to deal with. You have enclosures. With chemicals I’m quite unsure what you are talking about since technically DNA is a chemical. I’m going to do my original comment a disservice and point out that heat, anything above about 40°c needs to be managed. Though even with this latter issue there are ways to manage coming straight from already existing biological mechanisms.
- Comment on Team turns DNA into a rewritable hard drive 1 week ago:
I am unsure of the adjective’s meaning in this context…
- Comment on Team turns DNA into a rewritable hard drive 1 week ago:
Next to nothing? It’s DNA. You have DNA and RNA lying around everywhere on the planet. On every square fucking mil or micrometre. The only thing that can go wrong, so to say, is microbial degradation of DNA.
- Comment on AI allows hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I’ve said it before and I will reiterate it a thousand times if need be. AI based analysis, particularly LLM based analysis, will strictly lead to bogus results. The utility for this is intimidation and culling (!) of the have-nots.
Imagine entering a country and being flagged for antidemocratic rhetoric because the computer said so. It doesn’t matter if you said it or not, the machine has a claimed .01% error rate. Furthermore, it doesn’t matter if this error rate is correct or not, because how the machine got its results is a process that is impossible to pry open. Anyone who manages an algorithm can plant something and it’s very difficult to know who because the type of person to be able to do so will bring with them the precaution to wipe their tracks.
That said, you can mark my words. You’ll be seeing a lot more of this type of brutalisation in the future. The target is anyone who is among the patsies of state spun narratives, trans people, immigrants, specific nationalities, yadda-yadda.
- Comment on U.S. customs searched a record number of electronic devices last year— Recently revised directive adds flash drives, smart watches to searchable devices 2 weeks ago:
Completely understandable, Americans are definitely using these searches for industrial espionage.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 2 weeks ago:
Haggling makes sense for transactions revolving around used cars, bulk goods and the like. A grocery store is a completely different setting. Everyone expects that they’re getting the same deal for a given location. Kind of feels too close to what is legally considered fraud to be feasible.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, shame on you. Even if this is used to make things cheaper it still fits the definition of ‘discriminatory’. As a company you’re not going around doing handouts, you’re doing the very opposite because your whole existence relies on maximizing what you take over what you give and the more desperate someone is the more you take. Which is why rich people and business owners in general pay less for a pack of cornflakes than some poor mom raising kids on her own.
