luna the doggie  Mar 21
The Linux age verification shit where suddenly upstreams everyone relies on are complying in advance is just another day of US having disproportionate power in setting standards for tech that everyone then has to follow.
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@lunareclipse I wonder how much of this is developers going "eh, it's not that bad, not worth fighting over", versus how much of it is them really having no choice.

Like, if tomorrow California (or more likely the federal US) starts requiring OS to actually spy on their users for the government, will the Linux community put up more of a fight ? Probably, but I don't know how it would play out then.
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Show threadprincess pancake ​Mar 21
@evening @lunareclipse arguably because they're just as tired of all the shit
Show threadluna the doggie  Mar 21
@evening a notable argument I've seen repeated is "well it's likely other countries will start implementing similar policies soon" as if that is somehow a reason to immediately comply.

System76 is lobbying for exceptions for open source right now and keeps asking to hold off implementing anything preemptively in case they succeed. Clearly this is being ignored.

Forcing an age prompt into installers for everyone is frankly fucking ridiculous, and is exactly what the people pushing this are doing right now, judging by the PR to archinstall.
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@lunareclipse It is ridiculous but it's also fairly harmless. I can understand the logic of a maintainer who doesn't want to deal with the question of "do I risk a lawsuit if I don't do this" and prefers to just do it, and maybe remove it later if it turns out they can.