Luffy

Rant: Ageless Linux is YAUF (yet another unmaintained/useless Fork)

https://lemmy.ml/post/44870425

Mar 22 at 8:54pmWeb
Show threadSanctusMar 22
Its literally a bash script. Dont know how hard that is to maintain at that scale but my guess is not that hard for now
Show threadLuffyMar 22
Like I said, why does it have to exist then?
Show threadfrostlyttMar 22
its a protest against the bill passed in california, for californians. if you dont like it, dont use it, its not for you anyways
Show threadnemithMar 23
No law maker is going to look at a unused district fork as a valid protest.
Show threadSanctusMar 22
To distribute at scale? Whats easier? Everyone making their own bash script for this or one extremely pissed of guy making his available for everyone? I truly don’t understand your rant or hate unless you love corporations pishing age verification onto open source hobbyists to kill them. I read that entire site at Ageless Linux and left with a rock hard erection and hatred. It inspired me. So sorry if you don’t feel the same way but Ageless Linux is awesome actually because it lays the emperor bare and naked in every conceivable way.
Show threadLuffyMar 22

I truly don’t understand your rant or hate unless you love corporations pushing age verification

Either you increase your attack vector by running a bash script and risk breaking your entire repo by changing your $release or youre a dicksucking corpo

Anything else? Or do I have to continue?

because it lays the emperor bare and naked

In what way? Please, seriously, tell me. If I change my $release to this, does my distro maintainer suddently stop implementing any age stuff? Because honestly I don’t think this is how FOSS works. If you don’t like it, fork it and maintain it.

Honestly this is just as much a protest as the clippy profile pictures. You can say you did something, but you were just as complacant as those embracing it.

Show threadSanctusMar 22

You clearly never ecen read the site. Gow about you, educate yourself agelesslinux.org

I encourage you to read it and sse what they are doing.

Show threada_non_monotonic_functionMar 22
Because… Who cares?
Show threadSamskaraMar 23
Nerd anger about a minor change
Show threadFEINMar 23
idk why you’re getting downvoted? the joke is this guy is calling the CA age verification law is a minor change
Show threadFluffy Kitty CatMar 24
Because the Nazis are shoving age verification down our throat?
Show threadLumisalApr 7
Why not?
Show threadazimirMar 22
I’m still running the last release of Hannah Montana Linux. Just waiting for something better to come out.
Show threadAdaMar 22

You can buy yourself flowers Write your name in the sand Talk to yourself for hours Say things we don’t understand You can take myself dancing And you can hold your own hand

But you can’t roll your own linux distro?

Show threadOwOarchistMar 22

But you can’t roll your own linux distro?

You can, but it wouldn’t be better than Hannah Montana Linux.

Show threadCIA_chatbotMar 23
Man, when it first released it came in like a wrecking ball.
Show threadMrSoupMar 22
Ageless Linux is important because they’re doing activism. They say they want to distribute devices made to not follow Californian law for free to kids. That’s why it’s important, not just because it’s a distro. As a distro is near to useless.
Show threadikiddMar 23

“They’re doing activism.”

Holy lolling fuck. That’s activism now.

Show threadSystemQMar 23
Is it not? They’re opening themselves up to a lawsuit so they can argue against it in court.
Show threadMrSoupMar 23
And they’re also giving away stuff for free to kids to learn computing
Show threadikiddMar 23
If this is maintained in 90 days I’ll eat a bug.
Show threadthethunderwolfMar 27
*feature
Show threadFluffy Kitty CatMar 24
Their hardware guide is gonna be awesome. I’m making myself one when it drops and I’ma see what you can all run on it. Minimalist cheap computers are a bulwark aginst tyrrany
Show threadorgMar 22
I’m shocked to see so many magats on Lemmy
Show threadryannathansMar 22
A what, where
Show threadorgMar 22
Anyone downplaying privacy.
Show threadOwOarchistMar 22
???
Show threadorgMar 22

“The world doesn’t revolve around California”

True, but OS level age verification is a politically conservative talking point. It was pushed by Meta.

Age verification is the responsibility of the PROVIDER (the one who needs to age check) and not on the OS level.

There seems to be a sharp divide between people who hold opposing views, and the right wing is largely behind OS level user identification. Today it’s birth date, tomorrow it’s birth gender.

None of this belongs at the OS level

Show threadneclimdulMar 23
Are we going to acknowledge the irony of ranting against forking to protect freedoms on a platform formed as an alternative to protect freedoms?
Show threadJackMar 23
Good try California government
Show threadThunderComplexMar 23
Imagine forking systemd instead of just using a better alternative
Show threadvinylMar 23
When a lot of the programs revolve around it, there really isn’t a better alternative.
Show threadFruitLipsMar 24
OP probably attends middle school recitals just to boo and tell everyone they’re wasting their time.