Surveillance by a government used to mean they had a random police officer follow you because it was worth the time. Now it’s on mass surveillence which is automated and fed into faulty AI systems flagging. A random dude with a camera doesn’t compare.

Sudo can/usually does ask for password - but if you’re feeling lucky you can use sudo without a password.

(Currently doing that after repeatedly failing to install an OS and have not yet felt compelled to change it back).

On my computer

Microsoft: that’s where you’re wrong kiddo

The most reasonable choice now may not be the same forever. The optional indentifying fields themselves may have not have changed on Linux over the years but external changes in soceity has prompted this conversation.

With nefarious “child safety” laws popping up the introduction of an optional age field is tone-deaf and suspect. There are other objections to SystemD but this personally pushed me over the edge to finally try out another Linux distro (from Mint).

How do you propose to enforce such an idea? Some sort of… birthday testimony? Some sort of… oneness corroboration?

A software respository containing user identifying information - what could go wrong. Let’s install them on all our phones! /s

Looks like unemployment is in my future, fucking fantastic 🙃

I don’t care how good someone thinks they are - eventually they will fall to temptation and fail to resist the bad incentives placed on them by a system.

If a government is elected under a winner-take-all (first-past-the-post) voting system then there is no incentive to change that system to solve gerrymandering (also the spoiler effect and misrepresentation error). I hope it is possible for an newly elected party to quickly implement a representative voting system after winning on an unrepresentative one.

From their perspective voting 3rd party has the same result as not voting at all - that’s an issue which main parties do not offer to solve.

Only a tiny portion of people are actually psychopaths who would knowingly choose the worst option for everyone.

If the voting system trends towards two bad options which both get worse every year, how much does their vote reflect what they really want?

Personally I’d have little interest in Linux if not for it’s free software license.

Would Linux’s license not count as about Linux? I don’t know if this is the case here but there’s a lot of companies that sell hardware running Linux and refuse to follow the license, e.g. by providing source code.

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Normally the copyright holder has to take them to court to enforce copyleft licenses like the AGPL. Hopefully we will soon find out if users can also enforce it, as a 3rd party beneficiary under contract law.

Hurd rescently became an option with Gentoo Linux (experimentally). Debian offers it too.

GNU stands for “GNU’s not Unix”, which itself means ‘GNU’s not Unix not Unix’. If two nots logically undo each other then you might say GNU is Unix but in programming you would likly apply one assignment at a time: expressed as GNU = ! Unix = Unix or simply GNU’s not Unix.

Google Pain Services*

A middle finger to those you’re jailbreaking from.

Medical experts have come around to homosexuality not being a disease since the 70’s (in USA) so I’d hope the mentality you speak of is diminished now.