nah as an anarchist i am against silence. i’m just saying that in our capitalist society open source maintainers do not in fact have responsibility to the community, only to their market share, and this works slightly less dysfunctionally than proprietary because come what may the opposition may fork it. but that and the transparency and the ability to volunteer your labor for them are the only things that open source does guarantee.

Test your understanding of the Dylan Taylor age verification story and what it reveals about open source infrastructure

I’m very suspicious of whether one would create 10 questions for nearly every blog post of zirs by hand.

I think what ze’s saying is https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-nothing/ . the nature of open source—atl in accord with the hacker ethic—is that everything is just a passion project, there is no responsibility to not make bad decisions, and bad decisions result in decreased adoption and lost trust. after all, open source has always been about making a new alternative because existing solutions are bad.

not even said laws have an expectation that the date of birth provided would be accurate. the colorado bill just says “require[] an account holder to indicate” and never defines “indicate”, the ny bill says “request an age category signal” and never defines “signal”, so i assume they’re like the california law which has been verified to be just “enter your date of birth in this text field/dropdown and we’ll trust you girl”. i don’t think any of that involves biometrics

there’s no alien intelligence or protocol specification in systemd that ensures or says the dob field must be accurate either

I looked at driving this last month, but 1. their packaging policies currently say they’ll only accept very essential packages because they’re still developing the infrastructure for a bigger repo 2. a small issue with the live system (hardcoded ISO partition label, which fails when attempting to Ventoy it) made me shrug off trying it “for later”, and I’m now exploring Guix System which is its own beast

so you can pay to support them, just like how goblin tools is on the app store

it’s like why some people prefer Windows LTSC I think: less breakage, more stability, less experimental features, enterprises that use these often want like privacy hardening for security or something so these distributions often have similar things, etc

i do not think there’s anything to worry about chinese laptops with us-designed chips lol. it’s a TSMC to the bottom

git packages are not supposed to be zip bombs

it’s also wrong™, but i think attraction is a complicated thing and unlikely to be extrinsically changed after it forms. not that the process of said formation is free from bigotry exposed to, but shaming people for certain attractions instead of, say, focusing on improving representation, inclusivity, and normalization in the environment is more likely to make them fodder and supporters for bigotry. though attraction biases are a symptom of bigotry, this is one of those cases imo where it’s much better to treat the cause over the symptom.

i know it’s satire. i’m wondering how genderqueer people would react to people sincerely saying that irl

sorry if this is an offensive question by any chance, but how would you react to someone irl saying “There’s no poetry in a body that hasn’t been a site of transformation and reclamation. I find the unaltered, cisgender body to be lacking a certain history.”?

not me thinking this was serious and an interesting valid perspective 😭