I now fear it will one day be required for services on the internet (as it is by a recent law in California). I want to make that less likely, and more difficult to implement.

Having a principle the majority do not have and refusing to participate means being another step further out of society.

I’d like to try an alternative to SystemD but I don’t know quite enough to filter the list of OS options for a gaming PC. I have Mint on desktop (modern GPU) with and OpenSUSE 14 on a server.

I can see it’s just an optional text field but the ick isn’t optional. It’s leaning towards submission in comparison to resistance. I’m hoping such laws get repealed, rather than spread.

Only US allowed to spy on it’s denizens!!1

People not being sure what their router is actually doing is the issue. Instead of hoping for local manufactoring why not mandate against black box software running on the router? Mandate routers come with schematics like all electronics used to do? Promote computer literacy while you’re at it.

Big tech has their claws deep into education and I don’t see that changing. Parts of the world see school shootings happen, a more obvious problem than lack of software freedom/privacy, but do not think that’s bad enough to change. Having children right now may be a bad idea.

I’ve already distanced myself by deleted most (big-tech) social media platforms. Currently trying to ditch Discord but I don’t see friends do the same. Stopping now may look like a good idea but the ick would remain.

When things really matter all we have is words or violence. I have no choice but to hope that good ideas win in the end, and that the world improves over time. Just be the best you can.

I was shocked it listed LMDE but it’s a very old version (Linux Mint Debian Edition 2).

It’s an optional field in the userdb JSON object. It’s not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it’s standardized iff people want to store the date there, but it’s entirely optional.

“I’m not picking a side” and “this future proofs standardization” is of little comfort, that is seriously suspect. I ought to look to alternatives to SystemD(odge the issue failed).

No, they’re the same in this context.

What else can those who value privacy and have computer skills do but try to be a good example and offer to help to those around them without the know-how?

If votes determine if a post is constructive, and bots are the majority… 😬

Poisoning the well.

Companies make money using open source code and ignore the licenses which compel them to release their source code (due to ignorance, laziness or selfish gains). While AI generated code cannot be copyrighted then you cannot apply copyleft licenses to that code. Telling human-authored code from AI slop may be difficult or impossible - that could make it more difficult to enforce copyleft compliance in a lawsuit.

I’ve said aught for so long I was questioning if this an elaborate prank that somehow changed my search results. Damn.

Und vere are your papers?

I don’t want help “proving who I am online”. I want to pay in hard cash online - or use GNU Taler which is private to the buyer but not the seller (for TAX reasons).

“Show me your papers” aught ought to be so anti-British that any government officials promoting digital IDs are leaning over the line of being traitors.

Linux phone, landline, or tin can and string.

Software freedom or demise. While Google is capable of imposing anything then Android is already dead to me.

I can’t wait for people to have proprietary software running on their wifi brain implant

“I didn’t do anything wrong”, says man who doesn’t understand the concept of consent or ownership.

Are they lying about secure boot being a reason or can I go back to thinking SB is part of Microsoft’s EEE attack on software freedom?

I mean if it’s 2nd hand… and the free (libre) drivers are good… and AMD hasn’t gone full Intel… maybe??

The freedom to deny others the same freedom?