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Avicenna

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  • Americans struggle as Iran war puts strain on everyday costs: ‘I’m worried we won’t make it through’

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  • Don't disagree with any of this and every form of protest is useful. Purist opinions on how things should be done is how things don't ever get done. I only found it funny that they emphasized US in the title when the whole world suffers thanks to this war. After all the title should reflect the most important and distelled piece of information in the article.

  • Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars

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  • yea that why I think it is more to the point to equate them with antichrist (or atleast their cult if we wanna give it a lovecraftian twist) rather than just someone whose prayers don't get accepted. Leo is a playa, he should know this.

  • Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars

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  • I love you Leo but these leaders couldn't care less about god. Perhaps a better twist would "Leaders who wage wars are antichrists on Earth"?

  • Americans struggle as Iran war puts strain on everyday costs: ‘I’m worried we won’t make it through’

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  • Americans? It fucked up prices all around the world, even raised mortgage taxes in the UK. Trump and Netanyahu is a world-wide pestilence that must be dealt like-wise.

  • Hooters

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  • feels like a different kind of perversion, something along the lines of "I wanna be able to go to a place with my wife and kids where I can also constantly fantasize about other women while pretending not to"

  • truth-shame

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  • Yeah he doesn't need to be an agent to be an asset.

  • The reports of age verification in Linux are greatly exaggerated, for now

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  • Agreed. I find it a bit insane that main discussion point up to now has been whether or not this PR is related to compliance with surveillance laws, especially when the author of the said PR states that is the motivation.

    Whether or not such projects have a responsibility for promoting human rights is a much more valid discussion point, along with practicalities of the approach. But that also reminds us an essential aspect of FOSS. Despite being the dominant init system in the linux world, it is by far not a monopoly and any group with enough knowhow can easily maintain a surveillance free version of it. But ofcourse if people keep downplaying the political aspect of what has been done here then they might find themselves in a boiling frog situation.

  • The reports of age verification in Linux are greatly exaggerated, for now

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  • I feel like most people are just gonna read the title and get the wrong idea about what is written in the page. So I will quote this:

    And this is why I am of two minds about this issue. On the one hand, I fully understand that the various developers involved with these efforts want to make sure they follow the law and avoid getting fined – or worse – especially since compliance requires so little at this time. On top of that, these changes make it possible to implement a fairly robust set of parental controls in a centralised way, keeping the data involved where it makes sense, so it also brings a number of benefits for users. There really isn’t anything to worry about when looking at these changes in isolation.

    On the other hand, though, I also understand the fears and worries from people who see these changes as the first capitulation to age verification, nicely making the bed for much stricter age verification laws I’m sure certain parts of the political compass are already dreaming about. With so many Linux distributions, BSD variants, and even alternative operating systems having their legal domiciles in the United States, it’s not unreasonable to assume they’re going to fold under any possible legal pressure that comes with such laws.

    I’m not rushing to replace my Fedora KDE installations with something else at this point, but I’m definitely going to explore my options on at least one of my machines and go from there, so I at least won’t be caught with my pants down in the future. The world isn’t ending, age verification hasn’t come to Linux, but we’d all do well to remain skeptical and prepare for when it does make its way into our open source operating systems.

    It is not that, "there is nothing to worry about age field creeping into sytemd". It is that in the current ecosystem in which most large open-source projects live, it is easier said than done to take a principled action against early compliance with such laws. Which is much more reasonable than trying to undersell this change as "eh it is just an optional age field". It is not, it is a statement that when asked to comply with surveillance laws, they will be met with minimal resistance.

  • Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

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  • Simply not true. In any such project, major proposals first get discussed as issues and community either vets a plan or comes up with an alternative before more solid steps such as PRs start. What is being done here is clearly trying to downplay a major change as a minor one. There are loads of blog posts and discussions on why this isn't a minor change, especially when the author of the PR himself admits the goal is to comply with age verification laws. I will not get into that here. Suffice to say, at best, this is a political statement of the kind "we are ok to comply with surveillance and will show minimal resistance". Yet they try to play this as if they are just changing a typo in the documents. Thanks to Lennart for his life long contributions to FOSS, despite him at some point joining Microsoft, the antithesis of everything that is FOSS. I am sure many things he did shaped how the open-source developed on a world-wide level. This still does not mean that his reaction to everything will be correct. To me this was more like a "fuck all, this was a minor change, don't care what you say" attitude, which in my world-view has place in propriety software world not FOSS.

  • Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

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  • If we are going to get stuck in semantics, then he also did not just propose it. Propose would be opening an issue, describing how he would plan to do it and letting people discuss. This is how proposals work. Pushing a very controversial change and getting someone to accept it is not "proposing" when the change is something the community will obviously be so divided over.

    And it does not have to implement a full on surveillance mechanism to take a step towards better compliance with possible future surveillance laws. The guy literally said in his comments that this was the intent:

    https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290

    What the hell are we even discussing here?

  • Teachers union leader blasts Melania Trump's robot pitch: 'Every parent's nightmare'

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  • lol all the big tech companies that bent to knee are major shareholders in figure.ai. If you track it enough you might even end with direct connections to the Trump family.

  • Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

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  • Why not wait until it becomes absolutely necessary and all other alternatives are exhausted? The mandatory age check thing hasn't been even accepted whole US wide let alone world-wide. He did not even wait for ut to play out. What is with the enthusiasm to jump on board with this?

  • Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

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  • At the moment of most intense debates about mandatory age checks and government surveillance you (Dylan) hoped people to be calm about this? Then you my friend are simply delusional. They are angry and for a good reason. Why the rush to comply with a surveillance practice that hasn't forced on you with some sanction or enforcement. You did not even wait for it to play out. You did not have a discourse about alternatives. You just went ahead and hastily applied a change as if as if doing some sort of coup.

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • The law yes, it is also I think is a response to rising anger against billionaires. They want to make sure that they have the necessary systems in place when anger actually turns into action.

    But I was talking about this person in particular. It feels like no one without a ulterior motive would try to get such a thing passed preemptively and so much like a coup. Even if this law passed in all states you could probably drag any requests to add such a verification for years and years without any actual sanctions. So why the rush to comply without exploring any other options?

  • San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 93 in February 2025

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  • Not surprising that they are ramping up surveillance efforts world-wide as hatret for billionaires reach an all time high.

  • Friendless Looksmaxxing Spider-“Man”

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  • wow that looks even more like Andrew Tate than real Andrew Tate

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’

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  • Eh I was wondering whose turn was it to claim it this year. Turns out it is another guy who is balls deep invested in AI.

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • I sort of get the feeling of something more than just complying with the possible future age verification law. I feel like it has intent do damage and distrupt the community.

  • Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch Linux

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  • The timing makes me even more suspicious. Of all the times one could added this field, this is probably singularly the worst one. Right after discussions of mandatory age check? Seriously?