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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Mar-2026 00:12:32 JST 
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@QasimRashid Seems like a naive comparison given that Israel is not run by religious zealots. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 23:39:41 JST
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@Suiseiseki @yrrsinn @cy @jpaskaruk
> If you give the government a mm, they always take a km - the government *will* jump right in and make it illegal to enter a untrue DoB and also demand that further spying is implemented.
If that happens, we should complain about that. To complain about an OS offering the *feature* of setting a user DoB is silly. It's like saying an OS shouldn't have an audio stack because what if the government uses it to spy on people's private conversations. An optional DoB field that allows applications to query it and block access to websites that advertise a minimum age via an HTTP header, is just a very simple feature that increases freedom by giving parents more capabilities.
> The age of the user is none of the websites business and would allow for enhanced spying - such malicious feature must never be implemented.
The browser doesn't have to tell any website the user's age. All that happens is that the HTTP response includes a header such as "Min-User-Age: 18" and then maybe the client happens not to make any additional HTTP requests to the server because the user was blocked, and the server can't even tell this apart from the case of the user deciding to close the tab after looking around on the front page.
> Maybe that would be a good idea.
> It really isn't that hard to be there and appear at random so browsing ends up supervised.
This is silly. Parents are often busy, burnt out, etc. and may get some well deserved respite while the kid is surfing the web to watch silly Mr. Beast videos (OK, maybe those should also be blocked, but you get the point) or playing Fortnite with friends. Sorry, of course I mean Freenite, since the kid shouldn't be using proprietary games, but you get the point. Kids can also use the web for research.
> I am dubious of that claim - most of the revenue seems to come from adults, who have a credit card, that are stupid enough to actually pay.
I've had an LLM generate some slop since I'm lazy (see screenshot) and it claims that up to 25-30% of the total industry revenue is still from ads. It's not unreasonable to think that ad revenue from minor site visitors accounts for up to 5% of the total revenue of the entire industry. That's enough to make them not want to do anything against it. Why would a soulless corporation willingly give up a few percent of its revenue for some moral reason that's not enforced?
> The chance of addiction is pretty much exactly the same as addiction to anything else.
> Wait, when did it go from proprietary pornography to violence?
A lot of porn is very violent, and sexual gratification is a huge dopamine hit. Mix in bad parenting / immoral family values and you get an extremely dangerous person. There are cases out there in which minor teenage boys are gang-raping little children, forcing the victim to perform acts they saw in porn. It's hell out here, and porn is making it worse.
> It's far greater than 0.001%. [share of kids turned away by simple "are you 18" popups]
Come on now.
> If the code is only useful for malicious purposes, it matters that someone has gone and written it.
> You're liking enhanced mass surveillance more and more?
> Your age is a large privacy cost - that data point alone can narrow things down massively and allow you to be precisely identified when combined with other metadata.
Nothing malicious: Just a more feature-rich free software system, completely under the control of the owner of the computer, so parents gain additional capabilities to prevent their kids from accessing harmful content. And even when the parents use it, the age of the kid doesn't even need to be revealed to any server; the server just passively informs the client of the age limit and then everything is handled silently at the client side.
> The real solution to the problem is to teach children right and teach them not to run proprietary JavaScript on their computer.
> As proprietary porn sites don't show anything without proprietary JavaScript, children taught right will avoid those sites.
I appreciate you sticking to the bit. :blobcat-extremejoy: -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 22:46:34 JST
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@Suiseiseki @yrrsinn @cy @jpaskaruk
> The birth date field will require entering sensitive personal information (your DoB), instead of being able to leave it empty like the room number.
> There's no way in hell systemd will make it optional once the implementation is finalized.
This is already a slippery slope fallacy. And even if the field were non optional during account creation, it would at most be a minor inconvenience to enter "01.01.1970" when you don't want to fill in your real DoB.
> Such proprietary restrictions should not be implemented - parents should be responsible for ensuring their children don't browse proprietary porn, not the OS.
Nothing proprietary about a simple data field in the user database whose value the admin has control over.
This could be a very simple way for parents to take that responsibility: Setting up a separate account for the kid with the kid's DoB (or approximate DoB if you're paranoid) so web browsers can tell visited websites whether the user's age is >= N.
What else do you expect of the parents? Not let their 14 year old ever use a web browser unsupervised? Set up a much more sophisticated parental control system that 99% of parents don't have the skill to set up?
DoB in OS user account is so dirt easy (with web browser and websites cooperating to block access to porn etc.) that I'm now honestly wondering why this was never done before. This should have been a standard feature in any desktop OS since 40 years ago.
It wouldn't surprise me if one of the main reasons this was never considered before is that porn sites aren't willing to cooperate. They know that a good portion of their ad revenue comes from minors so they don't want anything more than a simple "are you 18" popup -- which they ideally don't want either, and always make as easy to skip as possible, like with a big green YES button and no explanation or warning to kids about the fact that they could become addicted or develop a taste for violent or degrading content or the like.
> Popups asking if you're 18 actually does turn away some kids.
Let's not kid ourselves. But sure, even 0.001% is technically "some."
> Asking for a specific DoB is not even needed for such restrictions - all is really needed is birth year or birth year and month.
And there's nothing preventing the admin from entering 01 as the day, or day and month. The admin can decide just how approximate they want the data to be. Could round up or down to half year, quarter, etc. Just make the field a standard Y/M/D field and the admin has full control.
> He's a microsoft developer - everything he does is with malice and the intention of causing harm, therefore a mug shot is pretty weak - instead he really should be hunted down.
LOL, come on. It really doesn't matter who commits a piece of code, if the code itself is harmless.
The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of desktop OSs having a DoB field in user accounts, and a standard API for web browsers to access it, and a standard Web API for saying "user age >= N" like with an HTTP header.
Tech savvy kids will still bypass it but compared to the 0.01% coverage of "are you 18" popups it would be a massive improvement at zero privacy cost so long as it's optional / without external enforcement of accuracy. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 21:30:39 JST
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@jpaskaruk @cy @yrrsinn
This seems like one of those ridiculous overblown things. I can't believe someone wrote a freaking hit piece about the guy opening these PRs. Does the author of that blog post think he's doing investigative journalism uncovering some kind of shady criminal?
Unix accounts already have fields like "full name" and "room number" and weird shit like that for historical reasons, and usually you just leave them empty. (The full name field is actually used sometimes, like by git, if I remember correctly.) What's the big deal if there's a birth date field as well? Literally who cares if it's just an arbitrary optional data field?
If this will eventually make parental controls easier, great! E.g. parent creates account for kid, enters birth date, then whenever the web browser is directed towards a website with an age limit, it checks it automatically. Voila, brilliantly simple solution to the problem where hardcore porn sites literally just show a popup asking "are you 18?" that's never turned away any kid, ever.
IT nerds who lose their mind over absolutely nothing because of some "principle" or some slippery slope fallacy annoy the fuck out of me. Save your energy for the day something actually bad happens.
Seriously, going after the guy who opened those harmless PRs, with some fancy hit piece article showing something that looks like a freaking mug shot, is actual pathological behaviour. The author should touch grass. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 18:17:45 JST
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@sun Me and gf have a dream of moving to Japan but it seems like I'd need to spend a shitton of money starting a business there, renting physical office space, and employing at least one Japanese citizen, else I wouldn't be able to give the both of us a work visa to stay there.
I think you mentioned that your wife is Japanese? I guess you got spousal visa? That's cheating. :blobcat-sadsob: -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 17:58:40 JST
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@sun What kind of Visa do you have? -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 18:17:39 JST
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@georgia @lain
You know what it's all about when men, especially of the 4chan variety, LARP as little girls, right? :blobcat-googly-notlikethis: -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Mar-2026 02:54:39 JST
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@pwm @coin @r000t
It's because you post on the fediverse. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Sunday, 01-Mar-2026 04:08:28 JST
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@sun @Pi_rat @SuperDicq
It's not that Nix "won" but rather:
- It was already stable and had a community by the time the Guix project was launched.
- Guix focused on being a pure-free distro with Linux-libre from day 1, which makes it less attractive to people who don't care about freedom as much.
So Guix never had a chance of catching up and surpassing the popularity of Nix due to the constraints imposed by being fully free.
Although I think even early on, Guix started offering some things Nix didn't have yet, but those weren't enough of a game changer... Don't ask me for details because it's been years, but IIRC: Guix was able to create isolated containers, docker images, completely self contained binary tarballs (including even glibc) that you can unpack and run *anywhere*, and perhaps disk images, before Nix had these capabilities. Don't quote me on that. In any case I figure Nix can probably do all that as well by this time. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 09:47:34 JST
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@light @flancian If it were ability classes, you'd get this weird situation where the highest class or two are de facto male-only, then there would be mixed leagues in between where the world's most talented women have to compete against mediocre men, and the lowest ability classes would be mostly women and some men who are just fooling around. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 09:47:33 JST
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@light @flancian I'm not that big into sports either but I imagine it would be demoralizing to women. Also, it still introduces a kind of inequality: Men will consistently be getting medals / first place at the highest leagues that are de facto male only, whereas in the lower leagues that are mixed, women will only be getting first place half the time. So, even as the most talented woman in the world in a certain sport, you'll only be winning 50% of the time. This significantly reduces women's reasons to get into sports in the first place. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Friday, 20-Feb-2026 09:46:58 JST
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@light @flancian Female bodies aren't simply "like male bodies but smaller on average." There's a variety of differences relevant to athletic performance, such as the amount of essential body fat (thus affecting how optimal your muscle to total weight ratio can be, rendering weight alone an insufficient metric), bone density, lung size (due to skeletal differences), the "Q angle" and so on and so forth. Here's an often cited infographic. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Feb-2026 06:23:15 JST
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@anemone What demented bullshit did unhinged JKR haters shit out this time? Accusing her of supporting pedophilia is a new low, but somehow not surprising at all. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 02:31:26 JST
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@KeepTakingTheSoma @HebrideanHecate
I'm pretty sure that nobody who made that software actually thought that midwives would be able to magically know the sexual orientation or gender identity of a newborn.
Sounds like they probably just used a standard "personal data" form that's also used for adults, and neglected to remove the fields that are unnecessary for newborns.
It's pretty standard to reuse components in software, and when the company making it is lazy/incompetent then you get absurd results like this.
No excuse for not having sex on the form. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jan-2026 16:49:30 JST
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I've used #BlueSky for about a day or two more than a year ago, and defended feminist views / criticized people slandering JK Rowling. Today, got this email.
It can't be stressed enough just how much of a clown show the whole platform is. Apparently, they consider the expression of feminist opinions to be terrorism and criminal.
I think it's probably based on the fact that I said the nazis did not specifically persecute "trans people" in the way they persecuted gay people or Jews. According to trans activists, that's "Holocaust revisionism," which they accuse JK Rowling of. And from there, I'm guessing, they tell themselves that my posts could be considered to be disseminating content for neo-nazi groups, hence this moderation decision. It's mental gymnastics at Olympic level.
They are living in an alternate reality, and the reason they're perpetually mad is that actual reality won't bend to their will. It's sad. -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Friday, 23-Jan-2026 17:34:30 JST
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@r000t @zonk
Is there an archived version somewhere or a sober unbiased analysis of the game? I wonder if this Amelia character in the game actually had legitimate concerns which the game made out to be bigoted, or whether it really was a stereotypical far-right villain who thinks dark-skinned people are yucky and every Muslim is secretly a Jihadist.
It's utterly fucked just how much the actual far right is benefiting from everything under the sun being called far-right. They'll defend a literal Hitler-adoring neo-nazi and when you tell them to hang themselves they'll be like "oooh did I hurt your feelings you woke libtarded cuck?" (My answer would be "no you didn't, I just want you to hang yourself.") -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 03:11:09 JST
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@f0x You're way more cringe and dumb than I thought. Unfollowed. No you're not recovering from this don't even try.
@bajax @teto @thatbrickster -
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 03:11:07 JST
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@f0x You sound like your blood pressure is elevated.
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 03:11:05 JST
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@f0x I have a gf. She's apolitical. It's a very NPC move of you to say that she must have something to do with my views.
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 03:11:03 JST
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@f0x Absolute brainwashed take but OK.
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