Mastodawn

I just boosted a question, but I have a slightly reworded question. Why is Linux and FOSS tripping over themselves to comply with Fascism surveillance capitalism instead of the long established international and national accessibility laws and accessibility guidelines and disability inclusion guidelines? Surely, one thing is better than the other, no? And it ain't Fascism surveillance capitalism that's the better option. #Linux #FOSS

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Tray

2d ago

@WeirdWriter

The dichotomy is weird to me. A lot of people (myself included) switched to FOSS to get away from the surveillance and data collection of big tech. Yet they see this as "oh, well it useless data because you can lie".

What? Fuck that. It's a wedge, the first of many, to further the data collection by the tech oligarchs to further sell and for surveillance. If it gets to it, I'll find a distro that doesn't use systemd

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wizardwes 2d ago

@klep @WeirdWriter https://agelesslinux.github.io
This project is preparing scripts to remove age verification for any distro that add it, as well as tracking the status of projects to see who is complying. Far from a perfect solution, but it goes to show that there are already distro that are fully defying this, as well as giving people workarounds. They're also making small protest computers that lack age verification for people to distribute at low cost.

Ageless Linux — Documentation

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Tray

@wizardwes @WeirdWriter

Good to know! Thank you!