“you advocate for doing nothing as solidarity and yet you denounce [literally doing the thing] even though it’s the same as doing nothing” you realize we can tell when you got your awful opinion from hacker news right?
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“software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like,” I said, tapping the icon on my phone that summons an unlicensed taxi
“by a technical coincidence Debian specifically doesn’t implement the current form of the age verification code in its default config and therefore you’re spreading misinformation” I don’t even know what to call this. don’t you sprain your tongue if you stretch this far to lick the boot?
“they can’t force FreeDOS or ITS users to implement age verification!” you know, I don’t think the fascists give a single fuck if you spend a relatively short period of time jacking around on increasingly expensive retro hardware before it dies and/or is priced out of your grasp. I think if they force you to do that as the only way to experience a computer you control, they’ve won.
the US can’t implement gun registration in most jurisdictions because literally nobody complied with any of the attempts to enforce it but yeah sure we have to do age verification or else an entire industry built on our free software will switch to ??????
“just fork it if you’re not happy,” says the unjust man, so you fork it
he breaks API compatibility, gets another half-million from his corporate sponsors, and sends a bunch of weirdos to harass your fork until further development isn’t possible
“just fork it if you’re not happy,” says the unjust man
as much as I hate the industry surrounding it, I cannot imagine hating my own craft so much that I’d ever reduce it to this
it feels unfair that I know so many people who agonize over beautiful code and suffer from imposter syndrome but this little fucker from nvidia can argue against the existence of beauty in what we do because capital demands it and his disdain for what he does reinforces it
code is art, and LLM code is ugly, regardless of what capital wants https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/116424732252818630
like, it’s actively depressing to me that there are people who program who have never looked at code and found it aesthetically pleasing
we really shouldn’t let anyone like that dictate what code is, because it’s clear they don’t understand. I don’t let a finance bro choose what I read (they’d tell me to ingest some airport lounge cult self-help nonsense) or what art hangs on my walls (“I don’t know, what’s expensive?”), why would I let the computer equivalent tell me about beautiful code?
we exist in a world with poetry
where the way words are organized is part of the beauty
how can the same not apply to code?
do you not have eyes?
“software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like” it literally can. corporations do it constantly and I really doubt any of them will drop linux if it doesn’t comply with a set of godawful fascist age verification laws. historically one of the forms of pushback against unjust laws is to show some basic fucking solidarity and do nothing to assist in their enforcement because it really isn’t practical to sue everybody, but unfortunately solidarity is alien to most of these computer fuckers
feel free to fuck off with the “it’s just a field in a database, distros will make it a simple age gate during account creation” horseshit unless you come with an explanation of why that’ll work in a regulatory landscape where porn sites with age gates are currently under legal threat from states where an age gate isn’t a sufficient proof mechanism, to the point where some of them have started partnering with companies like (Thiel-backed) Persona for identity verification
if your proof is that I should trust that the people currently complying will suddenly grow a backbone and it’s actually very punk rock to have a database field with PII in systemd: go fuck yourself