Joe RessingtonJust updated my iPad. It wanted me to take a photo of a credit card. I did not let it. It then told me I might not be able to access certain things. The future is fucking shit.
Thankfully I can still do the important things like listen to the podcasts I make at @latenightlinux which are marked explicit.
Jim Salter@joeress @latenightlinux systemd is already gearing up to comply with the age gating nonsense.
dan@jimsalter @joeress @latenightlinux i brought this up and got shouted down in the groups that i'm a part of. their argument was that it's just the date of birth field in a json, it doesn't actually require any upload off-site to use. if that's true, i have the same birthday as Torvalds. regardless of the extent to which this tries to invade my privacy, i need to be familiar with other inits, it seems. even if it doesn't hurt me today or tomorrow, we're equipping third parties to do harm against us in the future
@edboythinks @joeress @latenightlinux this is just the latest battle in an eternal, unwinnable war: do you control your own life and your own possessions, or does a larger entity control them and you just merely run in your little hamster wheel and comply?
SOME societal regulation is needed to keep power hungry sociopaths in check. Unfortunately, those same sociopaths inevitably corrupt any such regulatory body.
That's why the fight is genuinely *eternal*--and not permanently winnable.
@edboythinks @joeress @latenightlinux there is, of course, a consolation prize: the sociopaths can never "win" that eternal war either. They keep turning the screws tighter and tighter, but eventually if nothing else stops them, the very literal guiilotines come out, and they get to eat their own cake.
Which also doesn't "win" the war, it just resets it. Welcome to eternity, eh?
@jimsalter @joeress @latenightlinux easy there Jim, i've already been feeling my french roots more and more in recent years. felonies make employment difficult. unless you're hiring 💃
@edboythinks @joeress @latenightlinux that's the thing about guillotines: operating one isn't a felony, considering that by the time you're actually setting up guillotines you're the one deciding what is or is not felonious behavior in the first place.
I sincerely hope we do not make it to the guillotine stage this century. But that's ultimately not up to me: it's up to the oligarchs themselves, just as it was in France back in the day.
@jimsalter @joeress @latenightlinux know what, i like that answer. maybe we just keep them around for cutting the watermelon
bonne chance, mes amis