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   Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 04:51:16 JST Bricky
   >Due to local laws, we are temporarily restricting access to this content until X estimates your age.
   gay and retarded
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 04:51:16 JST djsumdog

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     Estimates? They're not mandating you photo upload your ID in Bongland?
     
     ..also sorry your nation is turning into (more of) an authoritarian hellscape
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     Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 04:57:29 JST Bricky

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     @djsumdog X isn't, but Telegram, Reddit, PornHub, etc. are. Nobody's taking about the random companies drafted in to process that data, who will no doubt be unaccountable when data breaches happen.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 04:57:29 JST djsumdog

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     You think they'll go after fedi instances like shitposter.world eventually?
     
     I would literally just stop using all those services. I deleted my Facebook/Xitter/Insta years ago. My phone number no longer even works with Telegram so that account is dead to me. I think the wise Brit should see this as a time to disconnect even more than they have before. The people who know tech should buy VMs in other countries and proxy everything themselves so they're not using a "VPN Provider"
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     Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:02:43 JST Flick ??

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     @djsumdog @wowaname @thatbrickster See also: police bussing in Antifa to “counterprotest” peaceful family protests about schoolgirls being harassed by illegal migrants.

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:02:44 JST djsumdog

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     It's difficult to believe it isn't intentional at this point: various leaders in British government must want civil unrest so they can justify even more authoritarian measures.

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     Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:02:46 JST Flick ??

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     @djsumdog @thatbrickster Apparently some sites are doing it by checking if your email address is also used for things like banking and utility providers, so I’m stuffed as I generate a new email for each company to track spam sources.

     (And that’s quite apart from the privacy issue: I did not give my bank or utility company permission to share my details with some random age verification website!)

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:02:46 JST opal

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     @Flick @djsumdog @thatbrickster jesus that's underhanded enough that i believe it's happening for real
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:12:31 JST djsumdog

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     My state (Tennessee) put in ID verification for porn sites. I've never used any of the big sites (torrent everything!) so it doesn't really affect me. Still, most companies have just refused to implement anything and it's effectively banned the big tube sites, unless you use a proxy, within the state. (I think Texas too).

     But I agree. It should be the parents decision regarding their kids and access to porn. If you're morally against it, you block it at home, tell them why you don't watch it (or try to not watch it) and instill that value in them. You're not going to be able to monitor all their Internet usage, you can only lead by example and hope they follow. Parents who are like "no porn or social media until you're 18" are honestly kinda hypocrites. Both of those things can be just as bad for adults!

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     Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:12:32 JST Bricky

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     @Flick Even Connor Tomlinson, who I tend to view favourably, sees it as a net positive due to it being an impediment to accessing porn. He makes no mention of the false positives or the bigger picture, or the fact technology is inherently flawed and that techno-solutionism should be no substitute to the parents taking interest for one, rather than getting the state to act on their behalf.
     
     @djsumdog @wowaname
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     Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:12:33 JST Flick ??

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     @wowaname @djsumdog @thatbrickster This is per the BBC, so it may be bollocks but I can’t think of an ideological slant that would lead them to BS about it, as they’re being very pro the age checks.

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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:18:48 JST opal

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     @djsumdog @Flick @thatbrickster
     >Parents who are like "no porn or social media until you're 18" are honestly kinda hypocrites. Both of those things can be just as bad for adults!
     agreed, and even though i handled all that as early as 12, i feel like the way i handled it made me an exception and i think a lot of tweens couldn't handle being on shit like 4chan and twitter that early on. like you said, even adults can barely handle that shit.
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:18:49 JST opal

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     @djsumdog @thatbrickster @Flick
     >(Tennessee)
     lot of em are doing that here now, it's a shitty precedent
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:24:20 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @djsumdog @wowaname @thatbrickster @Flick It is the only explanation that makes sense. We are being provoked into "rioting" so they can send in the army and lock us down "for our safety" while they implement digital ID etc etc.
     Now if we could move these migrants into MPs' houses, I wonder how long they'd manage before they wanted them shipped out.
     On a related note, I wonder if we could prosecute our MPs and civil servants for colluding in people trafficking.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:33:05 JST djsumdog

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     The biggest dynamic different is going to be armed citizens. And yes, armed citizens are not going to be able to stand up to a modern government's standing army. But the _mentality_ of an armed populous is radically different. The 2020 years really showed that with the differences in lock-down insanity, even in the US between areas that restricted firearms and those that didn't.
     
     The way the UK and AU removed firearms from the people has forever changed their relationship to the government. Despite all the problems that come with gun ownership, disarming a populous is still the greater evil.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:39:54 JST djsumdog

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     Yea, and once again that comes back to the individual and any other addiction. Some people come home from work and stream 5 hours of TV shows and then sleep, or just play video games and give up on all their other hobbies. Some people just do meth and lose everything. Anything can be addictive.
     
     If an individual is saturating themselves in porn, it's up to them to chose to stop, not big daddy government. Individuals can influence each other and in the culture in what they say and their actions, but in the end, people must be free to make their own choices and mistakes.
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     Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 05:39:55 JST Flick ??

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     @djsumdog @thatbrickster @wowaname There is a counter-argument, which is that over-use of porn is not just an issue for children.

     Quite apart from the cases of young men who need viagra to get it up because they are so sexually burnt out from porn, there’s also the men who think nothing of watching it (eg) on their morning commute, with no consideration of the person sitting next to them on the train, not to mention the whole awful escalating pornsick thing causing men to watch more and more extreme porn, whether that be depicting women in ever-more degrading situations (which causes them to expect to treat women that way) or the bloody sissy-trans pipeline (which causes them to decide that they are women and expect to be treated that way).

     Yes, that could probably be resolved in the long term by good parenting and bringing back the concept of shame, but there is a generation of men who are, to a greater or lesser degree, broken by this kind of porn exposure.

     I really don’t know what the solution to that cohort is, but this ban will — by design, as they are adults with free will — do nothing to help them.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 07:19:54 JST iced depresso

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     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     @mangeurdenuage @djsumdog @wowaname @thatbrickster @Flick > the organization that literally defined 'free software' uses a false definition
     
     :camfy: this thread is going places
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 07:19:55 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @wowaname @djsumdog @thatbrickster @Flick
     >the fsf operates on a false definition of free software
     No, that's your reality.
     
     >disqualifies most of their suggestions,
     If you ever used any of them then you'd know that's bullshit.
     
     >especially their definition of malware
     Their definition of malware is basically a function that is malicious, that does something that you do not want and that is hidden, it's three conditions.
     
     >there is ZERO consideration for security
     As said by someone else in another thread, that is not the goal of software freedom, it's a positive side effect of it tho.
     If you prioritize security like most secspecs you quickly cannot differentiate between civilian and military opsecs.
     Military opsecs damages civilians structures, while civilians opsecs damages military deception.
     Both can coexist independently.
     
     >all place more value in a developer's and an end user's time and sanity.
     To the cost of the free market. Thus eroding civilian structures.
     
     If you don't have a free market then you have what we have today, a clusterfuck of oligopolies who can deny whatever to anyone.
     Meanwhile the A-GPLv3 just re balance all that and you can resume it as simply as that you're forbidden to forbid people.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 07:19:56 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @wowaname @djsumdog @thatbrickster @Flick
     Lets have a list of people/entities who haven't betrayed their friends/userbase/have been subverted by corpos:
     -The FSF.
     
     Lets have a list of people/entities who haven betrayed their friends/userbase/have been subverted by corpos:
     -Linux foundation
     -OSI
     -Canonical
     and many others.
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 07:19:56 JST opal

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     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     @mangeurdenuage @djsumdog @thatbrickster @Flick the fsf operates on a false definition of free software, and even their own criteria for https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html disqualifies most of their suggestions, especially their definition of malware. there is ZERO consideration for security and simplicity in the software for which they vouch, which is especially apparent in much of GNU's own software.
     
     distros such as alpine linux, and hell, even the BSDs, all place more value in a developer's and an end user's time and sanity.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 07:19:58 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @Flick @djsumdog @wowaname @thatbrickster
     >and bringing back the concept of shame
     Shame will only further the issues are shame is just another passive violent method to deny access the root cause of your issues.
     
     >I really don’t know what the solution to that cohort is
     There's a need for a mix of social coherence solutions in education:
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a5HQbFi4PE
     
     And there's a need for a mix of tech illiteracy bans.
     The situation is so bad I'm agreeing that normies must have a course with diploma in their scholar course about computer/internet if they want to buy a computer or subscribe to an ISP.
     Of courses should one be done with fully free distros are listed by the fsf.
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 07:19:58 JST opal

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     @mangeurdenuage @djsumdog @thatbrickster @Flick
     >trusting the fsf worth a shit when it comes to free software
     i like the rest of what you said but cmon
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 09:03:31 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @wowaname @djsumdog @thatbrickster @Flick
     >and stop using the kernel altogether.
     :risitas2:
     Thank you @freedo and and @lxo (and all the Trisquel contributors) for all your ethical work.
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 09:03:35 JST opal

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     @Flick @djsumdog @mangeurdenuage @thatbrickster also if you're upset at the LF then please do the right thing and stop using the kernel altogether. i consider linux to be sufficiently complex and code-rotty to want to ditch it in my own setups, but it's a shame that no real alternatives exist in the wild today. i wanted to try minix but i feel like its hardware support is extremely limited.
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 09:03:40 JST opal

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     @mangeurdenuage @Flick @djsumdog @thatbrickster to spell it out: there is a huge practical difference between complex software with a copyleft licence slapped on it, and simple software where i can actually exercise my freedoms to use and modify the software. there is no way in hell i'm fixing bugs in systemd, dpkg, or iceweasel.
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 09:21:36 JST Fish of Rage

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     @djsumdog @thatbrickster all our infrastructure is 100% in the USA in small private operator hands so the chance they can pressure me is close to zero.
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 09:52:53 JST Matt Hamilton

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 01:45:41 JST 翠星石

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     @wowaname @mangeurdenuage @Flick @djsumdog @thatbrickster I've noticed that Trisquel never breaks unlike Debian.
     
     dpkg really isn't that hard to unbreak
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 01:45:43 JST opal

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     @mangeurdenuage @djsumdog @thatbrickster @Flick trisquel is debian-derived cope. for how much debian is touted as a "reliable distro", it breaks in spectacular ways and it's easy to hose the package manager and brick a system, forcing you to reinstall. i don't recommend shit like that to average users, or really, anyone.
     >test
     why waste my time testing when i can read about them and inspect their software stack online? my days of testing new software are over. i'm trying to use my computer.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 01:45:44 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     @wowaname @djsumdog @thatbrickster @Flick
     >and not a good example for a "usable" operating system for the average user
     You spoke about everything except the main one focused for average users :trisquel:
     
     >i'm not a distrohopper
     You don't need to distrohoper to test tho. That's what I did and so far Trisquel is the best when it comes to average joe experience.
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     opal (wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 01:45:45 JST opal

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     @mangeurdenuage @djsumdog @thatbrickster @Flick
     >If you ever used any of them then you'd know that's bullshit.
     bro shut up tool lol they suggest worthless shit like arch forks and obscure garbage. guix is notorious for being in development hell and not a good example for a "usable" operating system for the average user (nor is it even intended to be a linux distribution. it's intended to be used with hurd). i'm not a distrohopper so i spend my time better off by using what i know works.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Aug-2025 02:09:07 JST 翠星石

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     @mangeurdenuage @djsumdog @wowaname @thatbrickster @Flick Those 3 entities have been corpos or were for serving corpos from the very start, therefore there was no subversion.