Mastodawn

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593

US government in 1996: strong encryption is a munition and you can go to prison for years if you export

FOSS engineers: hey so only use this if you're in the US but we'll give instructions for how to do it otherwise 😉

California in 2026: we're passing a law that allows the AG to sue OS providers in civil court if they don't implement age verification in order to restrict Apple, Google, Facebook and the worst companies in the world.

FOSS Engineers: OMG THEY MIGHT COME AFTER OUR LINUX LAPTOP VENDORS WHO HAVE LIKE 3 TOTAL CUSTOMERS WE SHOULD HAVE IMPLEMENTED AGE GATING YESTERDAY I PROMISE WE'RE NOT CHALLENGING YOUR AUTHORITY GOVERNOR NEWSOM

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Iswyrm 2d ago

@wwahammy For real, sometimes I wonder if there is a chunck of FOSS dev that came from Windows world and never left behind that mindset.
I look at you, Red Hat...

Unfortunately, without extra workforce would be hard keep up with the projects either... hmmm.

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Cassandrich 1d ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115010611094788311

@iswyrm @wwahammy There absolutely are and that's where almost everything wrong comes from. I've been saying this for at least 2 decades.

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Cassandrich

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115010632923848294

@iswyrm @wwahammy Like,

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Iswyrm 1d ago

@dalias @wwahammy The usrmerge matter already made me wonder "did we had not standards about what was supposed to use directories inside root"? 🤔
They had to clean up because a lot of people gone "fuck that, I go Yolo" without thinking to much why this structure was there first...