Comment by akersten
9 days ago
Now this is what open source development should look like. I cannot believe a few days ago I was thumbing through an email thread on freedesktop.org about how they could implement the mandatory government API in dbus. Can they not read their own domain name?
The API seems like a funny joke anyway, `sudo setage 12987123`, done.
Oh nice! I’ve been wanting to ask someone of your age, how was the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum?
The climate was optimal. Everything else was kinda mid tbh.
It being Linux those would obviously be seconds so they are roughly half a year old.
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It's designed for parents to enact parental controls on their children. If you're root, you're the parent. Obviously root can turn off parental controls.
I wouldn't be so sure, I think the ultimate goal is to link your network activity to your government id, just like the way it's done in China. So the only root left is the government basically.
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pocksuppet, please do tell us how it feels to be birthed by Google and Apple?
or do you have root on your iPhone?
Associating open source with projects that brazenly violate the law is not what open source should look like.
Sorry, was I too punk rock on hacker news?
Unjust laws should be violated.
Who decides if a law is unjust?
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This leads to anarchy or selective enforcement. Unjust laws should be removed.
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It’s exactly what FOSS should look like IMO. Keep fighting the system.
You have made a claim with zero rationale to back it up.
Why shouldn't it look like that? Especially with a law this dumb
It doesn't make strategic sense to make open source projects the enemy of the people. Incentivizing legislation that hurts open source software is not helpful for open source software to thrive.
>Especially with a law this dumb
Allow software to know if the user is an adult or a child seems like a useful signal to me and is not dumb.
It is when those laws were passed by totalitarian idiots.
Being passed by a "totalitarian idiot" does not mean that a law is not valid.
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