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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do. We’re on it already. The whole system is slipping towards an age gated internet, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. That’s the slope. There’s nothing I can do to stop it, whether I’m I stay on or get off.

  I don’t believe that dropping my whole OS over a database field will change anything. It won’t stop the devs who are concerned about their legal liability from being doing what they need to do to protect themselves. Some devs will comply, some will walk away from OSS, and some won’t comply. But the bigger the project, the more corporate sponorship it relies on, the more certain it is going to be in the “comply” category, and the truth of that won’t change because users push back.

  Which is to say, I don’t believe standing up and rejecting a DB field as a matter of principle will change anything, except to make my life harder.

  My line in in the sand isn’t about changing the course of the path we’re on, it’s about my own personal interactions with the system. And being forced to provide my age to interact with the internet is the bit I won’t do. So I will stay with the inevitable creep towards that state until the last possible moment, in the hopes that somehow, I’m wrong, and we avoid this privacy nightmare we’re heading towards. If and when it becomes impossible to interact without providing that data, then that’s where I step off, even if it costs me half the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not the same though. Your method will enable the system to interact meaningfully with an age gated internet. Blank will not. And I won’t be interacting with an age gated internet…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s still forcing a DOB, which is the line I won’t cross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But for me it’s a slippery slope I don’t think we should even get on.

  I agree. But the start of the slope isn’t my exit point. My exit point is just before the slope gets too steep to get off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My line in the sand is when a distro/app starts enforcing entry of birth date data. Having a database field to store it, or even an optional prompt for it isn’t the point where I bin it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly? It’s openly racist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate AI so much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It will change society. It won’t improve skills.

  Studies already show the opposite at play. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1

  If the LLM could teach you how to code, but couldn’t do the coding for you, it would be a tool for improvement. But it isn’t used that way. Instead of saying “teach me how to code this”, people are more inclined to say “code this for me”.

  On top of that, they’re controlled by corporations who are not in the slightest bit interested in your welfare, privacy or economic success. They will invade your privacy, fuck over the environment, fuck over people and load their LLMs with propoganda and barriers that serve their political and social interests.

  And as a bonus, they’re a nightmare for the environment.

  Having said all of that. I agree, they are going to fundamentally reshape society. But it’s like the industrial revolution. Yeah, we ended up with a more efficient society, but it didn’t make people freer, it further entrenched wealth in the hands of the wealthy, whilst fucking up the environment. That’s what LLMs are going to do.

  We could do them differently. That implementation isn’t inherent in their nature. But we won’t do them differently, because the people pushing it want the shitty outcome, because it’s not shitty for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate AI so much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Think of how shitty and scam filled the early internet was. Did we abandon it because of how shitty it was at first,

  It wasn’t though… That was mid to late term internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Our setup uses a domain pointed at a dynamic (but stable) IP with a script to update it periodically

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No longer true that the rich keep getting richer as the poor get poorer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I thought linking to a non existent article was the punch line…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are flat earthers so badly harassed and ridiculed by globers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t know just say you don’t know or don’t engage, don’t call me or others names in the comments. Let’s keep this civil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t tell me what I want

  You did that part when you said that trying to change the status quo is inequality…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m sure I was imagining it. You don’t seem like someone to throw around insults and misogyny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bigotry and spam doesn’t become ok based on where you say it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have a 7 hour old account. You’ll have to excuse me if I have no idea who you are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You instance banned me without giving any justification.

  The reason will be in the modlog

  But generally, it’s spam, transphobia and other bigotry that gets you banned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s literally why I bought up the topic of equality…

  What you brought up is an appeal to maintain the current iniquitous status quo, by suggesting that the real problem with men being the aggressors in the vast majority of sexual assaults isn’t the sexual assaults, but that some men might be falsely accused. But hey, if women want to protect themselves from that, we should legalise excluding them and reducing their service options in other areas, because you know, that’s what equality looks like…

  The thing is, you don’t give a shit about the real world manifestation of inequality. What you want is a platonic ideal of equality, which doesn’t exist in the real world, and using it as the measure, just ensures that real world inequality stays around and never gets challenged, because people like you can point to the rules and say “We already have equality” .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Different people can be equal in some areas and unequal in others

  So what you’re saying is that women being sexually harassed is just how it is in a society with equality?

  Because if that’s not what you’re saying, I’m curious why you think a movement to reduce the disparity is a problem? Well, I’m not curious, I know the answer…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Things aren’t equal now. You don’t want that to change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why can’t we just support equality for everyone? Why is that so hard?

  At least part of it is because of people like you who get upset whenever someone challenges the grossly inequitous status quo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could use asklemmy or something similar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do, but only by passively monitoring RSS feeds for new content that exceeds your current quality. They don’t do active upgrade searches unless you manually trigger them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kagi has a fediverse search

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sure a good lot of you, like me, had been anticipating/dreading that moment when we say, oh fuck this is it, for real. Like the BIG oh fuck. My question is, how ready are you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sucks that I wouldn’t be able to shitpost about it, though.

  That’s what mesh networking is for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How university life in Australia has changed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hated the forced face to face time they wax nostalgic over in that article. Lectures that you had to attend in person and couldn’t easily access after they were done, tutorial sessions where part of your final grade was received just for turning up, creating tutorials full of people who didn’t want to be there and tutors trying to juggle so many people they couldn’t meaningfully tutor anyone, effectively making it an enforced private study session…

  I did not love my time at uni…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does genital nomenclature change as a person transitions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know your friend better than we do. Do what you think is right, and make sure you’re open to accepting that you’ll get it wrong sometimes, and then self correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia and EU on verge of striking free trade deal long stalled by beef, parmesan and prosecco⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And the EU wants a a rare earth supplier other than China

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I NOT do in front of rich people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What should I NOT do in front of rich people?

  Diminish yourself or your self worth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  tbh, I didn’t get that far. It could be legit. It just didn’t sound legit, and I didn’t see a person in the first little bit I watched, so I turned it off before giving it much of a go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it's Biggest Feature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I clicked, it sounded like an AI generated voice. I turned it off