Our trans friends are being targeted with inflammatory toxic BS by powerful people with massive platforms every single day.

Please let them know they are seen.

Some developers and maintainers are currently plowing their way through #Linux #distros or individual packages, adding #AgeVerification code snippets they believe might be meeting, somehow, the requirements in US and Brazilian laws, some of which aren't even in effect.

They are doing it because they can, changing their respective, global code bases that have been built also by countless contributors around the world.

Take a moment to reflect on how #Linux would look like today, if everybody with commit privileges simply modified globally relevant code bases, to suit their respective local jurisdiction. Merely because they can.

It may be time to realize that some countries are firmly on a path of authoritarian, or rather: fascist, decline. Especially when you're living in such countries.

A responsible way to handle this situation would have been to isolate corresponding changes, by spinning off dedicated distros that cater for such rotten demands: Corrupted Californix; Blighted Brasilix; Fascistix; MAGAX; …

Unfortunately, the Linux experience is now being ruined for everybody on the planet instead, step by step, and partially even by compliance in advance.

It may be time for a wave of new distros, maintained outside of the US, in less submissive parts of the software development world.

On any given day, I have roughly 5 or so fucks to give.

Before anyone takes that as a confession of total selfishness, I want to be precise about what I mean...

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/tread-carefully-because-you-tread-on-my-fucks/

“Two Iranian semiofficial news agencies close to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed that there had been no negotiations — direct or indirect — with Washington as described by Trump. The Fars and Tasnim news agencies instead portrayed the American president as backing down due to Iran’s threats.”

- AP

A sad state of affairs when I put more trust in Iranian news agencies than I do the President of the United States…