Medical experts have come around to homosexuality not being a disease since the 70’s (in USA) so I’d hope the mentality you speak of is diminished now.

NN suck. Unless you’re a God programmer then following a non-trvial NN along to it’s output is bonkers. It might as well be spagetti code, written in Latin, in a black box.

Can’t imagine why don’t people love having (their) works used to produce slop competition - how superstitous and irrational! /s

I worry this has the face of good news but is still bad news. “I didn’t speak up when they came for proprietary OS age verification because I used Linux” except we’re a minority so we’re next.

Why does any of your apps need to involve a government ID? Why do kids need ID on their phone?

I assume these are internet friends, otherwise yeah just talk at school and discuss the scam over phone or whatever.

Another reminder to ditch Discord.

Perhaps patients have their place but software patients make no sense. One big issue is that it is not practical to avoid writing a system that already exists because there are many, many ways to describe the same software system. It’s so difficult to search every term that might be used that multiple people could have already patented the same thing and be unaware the other exists.

• write software “we can’t control”
• governments mandate they have more control so they can take the blame
• have even more control over users
• abuse that power
• profit

Using software one doesn’t understand to protect their child looks like a peak of irresponsibility to me.

Understanding Using any software to trying restrict a child seems a sub-optimal way to teach children the computer skills needed to circumvent it. and promotes It encourages them to hide their mistakes from you?

I expect everyone to make mistakes. Is it better to encourage the child to talk about it rather than hide it when they outsmart a lazy child lock?

That depends on the parent, doesn’t it? A tool in the wrong hands does the devils work.

Devil’s advocate, does a good parent need this? Honest conversation could automate who the rules apply to.

Smaller PP.

I now fear it will one day be required for services on the internet (as it is by a recent law in California). I want to make that less likely, and more difficult to implement.

Having a principle the majority do not have and refusing to participate means being another step further out of society.

I’d like to try an alternative to SystemD but I don’t know quite enough to filter the list of OS options for a gaming PC. I have Mint on desktop (modern GPU) with and OpenSUSE 14 on a server.

I can see it’s just an optional text field but the ick isn’t optional. It’s leaning towards submission in comparison to resistance. I’m hoping such laws get repealed, rather than spread.

Only US allowed to spy on it’s denizens!!1

People not being sure what their router is actually doing is the issue. Instead of hoping for local manufactoring why not mandate against black box software running on the router? Mandate routers come with schematics like all electronics used to do? Promote computer literacy while you’re at it.

Big tech has their claws deep into education and I don’t see that changing. Parts of the world see school shootings happen, a more obvious problem than lack of software freedom/privacy, but do not think that’s bad enough to change. Having children right now may be a bad idea.

I’ve already distanced myself by deleted most (big-tech) social media platforms. Currently trying to ditch Discord but I don’t see friends do the same. Stopping now may look like a good idea but the ick would remain.

When things really matter all we have is words or violence. I have no choice but to hope that good ideas win in the end, and that the world improves over time. Just be the best you can.

I was shocked it listed LMDE but it’s a very old version (Linux Mint Debian Edition 2).

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.

“I’m not picking a side” and “this future proofs standardization” is of little comfort, that is seriously suspect. I ought to look to alternatives to SystemD(odge the issue failed).

No, they’re the same in this context.