Seems like the highly praised Hong Kong’s peaceful protests yielded to absolutely nothing.

Out of the loop:

The systemd project merged a pull request adding a new birthDate field to the JSON user records managed by userdb, in response to age verification laws in California, Colorado, and Brazil.

Lennart Poettering clarified that this is an optional field in the userdb JSON object — not a policy engine, not an API for apps. It just defines the field so it’s standardized if people want to store the date there, but it’s entirely optional. Systemd itself does nothing with the data.

What a nothing burger

Still phone numbers are just really really bad. Like the worst thing you could possibly choose when it comes to verification.

Using phone numbers is the only real criticism imo any service that uses phone numbers is fundamentally compromised.

I wouldn’t hope for a massive disaster as despite clueless leadership american military is still incredibly strong and organized (relatively speaking). The issue if I understand correctly that in asymmetrical warfare winning a battle doesn’t win the war and neither does winning a dozen battles. Just a another step in yet another quagmire.

Funny how Google couldn’t defeat seo spammers and yet claim they can keep AI safe. We are so fucked

It’s true organic growth is basically dead. There’s very little reason to share expert insights now and while the old system sucked due to seo gaming but there was some actual value there even if buried deep.

Great, you really accomplished a lot by breaking the looms then!

Kind of but decentralization really makes it up for it. Digg didn’t even have custom communities let alone decentralization.

And what you broke the machines then what? This teenage angst is cringe my dude.

Nah it sucked. I was on it. It was just lemmy but with less features and with less content. It was dead the moment it started because it did nothing.

I don’t understand how they even think it could succeed.

By changing society and policy to benefit everyone rather than a few oligarchs? There are more of us than there are them.

In fact, this is exactly what we’ve been doing since the ludittes and you might even say it’s working rather well, slowly, but working nevertheless.

Good luck with that bruh

They were not right. What are you wearing now? You don’t destroy the machines - you take them.

Not it’s an implication thay only someone lazy or an idiot would fail to fix mistakes produced by their bot assist. Worse case you just dont take the changes - you press the buttons.

This is clearly a response to the luddites? No?

You’d think open source movement would take advantage of VC funded tools to fight against the big tech but instead we have literal ludites.

I have over 20 years of professional coding experience and I use Claude these days. Sure it makes mistakes and can write bad code but I’m not an idiot, I ran teams of dozens of engineers underneath me - I can handle a bot and fix it’s mistake. The maintainer of Lutris can probably too.

All I’m saying that this anti-ai mentality is fucking stupid and anyone who engages with it in such a binary way is fucking stupid too.

Always have been the case but at least they were pretending publicly to care now it’s all in the open.

Yes but EU members are actually more culturaly diverse now than before EU was created. Most of main factors are not exactly EU related but just general growth and empire collapse but generally EU made small cultures much stronger through better economic conditions like grants and tourism etc.

I find it very apt that their brainless congress is shortened as NPC lmao