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?

I expect everyone to make mistakes. Is it better to encourage the child to talk about it rather than hide it when they outsmart a lazy child lock?

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.

Smaller PP.

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.

Maybe others really believe it’s not “nothing” 😒

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 I’m hoping such laws get repealed, rather than spread.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

In that case the “orchestrate the pieces” part is copyrightable if it reaches a minimum threshold of creativity but the pieces themselves are still not copyrightable because a human still didn’t make them??

If what posts are constructive is determined by votes 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 (out of ignorance, laziness and selfish gains). While AI generated cannot be copyrighted then you cannot apply copyleft licenses to that code. Telling human-authored code from AI slop may be difficult or sometimes impossible, and could may 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 to be so anti-British that any goverment officals promoting digital IDs are leaning over the line of being traitors.

Linux phone, landline, or tin can and string.