• write software “we can’t control”
• governments mandate they have more control so they can take the blame
• have even more control over users
• abuse that power
• profit

Using software one doesn’t understand to protect their child looks like a peak of irresponsibility to me.

Understanding Using any software to trying restrict a child seems a sub-optimal way to teach children the computer skills needed to circumvent it. and promotes It encourages them to hide their mistakes from you?

That depends on the parent, doesn’t it? A tool in the wrong hands does the devils work.

Devil’s advocate, does a good parent need this? Honest conversation could automate who the rules apply to.

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 I’m hoping such laws get repealed, rather than spread.

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

By proxy (to Godot), Slay the Spire 2 is also open-source.

Using an open source game engine doesn’t necessarily make your game open source. Even if you could get the source code onto your computer that doesn’t mean you can redistribute it legally.

Taking a dev saying they’re not bothered about piracy and hope people can learn from the source code as a legal “OK” is like building a house on sand. An actual open source license is not a comparable as a foundation to actually build upon it.

Not quite miss, but my fingers still type for the wrong programs in the start menu: task manager, notepad, etc.

“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?

Maybe modern search engines are part of the problem here. A local computer geek can probably offer better advice (better “tech tips” if you will).

Pretending to be the average Joe to see what issues may occur certainly has it’s place - before an expert informs them of what they ought to do. That’s not to say people creating software cannot do better to appeal to the average user’s needs but it’s falls on experts to teach them to do tech right.

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