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Used Fedora Workstation for 10 years, probably always will if it stays like this. Messing with other distros just feels like work when this is already kinda rules at everything.

Just because violent events have proliferated to varying degrees in history does not mean it's the natural state of humanity.

The reality is you can write books about World War 2, which was very recent lasted for 6 years. But it's much harder to write a book about every period of not war and largely peaceful coexistence, such as era 50004 BCE - 46010 BCE, or whatever the fuck.

And that's not taking into account that war-mongering nations have found themselves at largely an advantage for much of recorded (ie extraordinarily recent human history).

Yeah, it's confirmation bias.

Actually the voting is causing too much disruption now so please just pick from two of these preapproved parties

Homosexual activity is illegal in Uganda. If they pass a law saying your OS should track that, is it moral for developers to enable compliance with it? Or do developers have a moral duty to at least not go out of their way to enable that bullshit, even if they risk a gajillion dollar fine?

By implementing a mechanism that enables this law, it becomes exponentially easier for lawmakers to then make it mandatory (as many already have/are openly planning to).

Yeah, the problem is the lawmakers. But I don't have enough money to control the lawmakers. The creators of free software should not actively helping oppressive measures.

The PR is explicitly for the purpose of complying with age verification laws. Damn fuckin' right I'm angry about it.

Is it cool if we start implementing tools to track users' race and sexual orientation for the explicit purpose of complying with some country's laws about those too? Or is it maybe the job of free software to defy oppressive systems?

Don't forget my shitty country in the process of trying to implement this too

Is this comment a joke? That or you're very naive about the problems these things did cause.

As someone who deals on rare occasion with Linux PCs, both TPMs and Secure Boot have been a fucking PITA that have done nothing but help solidify the Microsoft/Apple/Google grip.

I know nobody asked for this - I live in the UK. Feels like we basically agree, but your solution is "why don't the countries making stupid-ass laws implement it in a way that doesn't bother me", which like yeah sure, but just isn't going to happen in any universe. Nobody will bother to fork stuff, countries will just continue to try overreach and make peoples' lives hell until they comply.

Region-blocking is the lowest-effort, but actually achievable response, that protects devs from legal attacks, while giving the offending regions a strong incentive to undo these laws. As soon as it starts hitting profits, the capitalist class will get it reversed, no question.

People are not subject to laws of other countries unless their own country makes it so. The US has not made it so, therefore the UK, definitively, does not have the right. "Trying to overenforce your own countries laws" is not a valid defence against civil damages.

Sure, why not? The UK has no right to enforce its fines, but 4chan probably does have the right to seek remedy for civil damages like dealing with this.

MariaDB is already cooler, obviously.

Very weird though that both it and MySQL are owned by private equity.