Taylan (GNU+Feminism Cat)
> As women, we are compelled to be wary of people with penises.
Said in the context of a discussion about violent male prison inmates easily being able to go through formal "gender change" on paper, to transfer to women's prisons. (Yes, this happens.)
https://x.com/doramoutot/status/2057180176484647069
The transgender movement has been absolutely disastrous for many women.
There are multiple known cases from different countries in which a violent man gets put into a women's prison and proceeds to physically and sexually assault female inmates, in some cases leading to impregnation of the victim.
Now, women who talk about this are punished by the state.
There cannot be a more naked expression of hatred against women on behalf of governments. To lock them up with violent men, then punish women who speak out...
#feminism #trans
If it's a spectrum, there needs to be a variable I can measure that sits on a continuous value range. Say from 0 to 500, where 0 is the male end of the spectrum and 500 the female end, or something like that.
So what are the two ends of the value range, and how are they measured?
How do I measure someone's "sex value" on this spectrum?
Also, it implies that some men are "more male" than others and some women are "more female" than others. What does that remind you of?
https://tkammer.de/zisp/docs/c1/1-parse.html
It mentions some decoder features that aren't actually implemented, but the parser is actually done. :blobcat-googly-aww:
Only took me 2 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9okaPzpVhmM
Apparently for years German/European police have tried to track down a female "phantom killer" whose DNA would keep popping up in crime scenes all over Germany as well as Austria and France. They thought it must be some super powerful scary criminal as this woman was linked to a high number of accomplices (all men) who'd be identified at the crime scenes, yet none of them would give any information about her. She was linked to crimes as old as 1993 and as recent as 2007.
In the end, it came out that the DNA belonged to a woman working at the factory producing the cotton swabs used to gather DNA evidence. :blobcat-joy:
https://reduxx.info/transgender-reddit-moderator-deletes-account-after-being-exposed-as-registered-child-sex-offender/
@Suiseiseki @yrrsinn @cy @jpaskaruk
An OS shouldn't have an audio stack with built-in default-enabled functionality that records all input audio and transmits to a remote server, as obviously the government will require that the audio recording is sent to their server.
No, an OS should not have an audio stack at all. After all, if an OS is able to record audio, then the government will mandate all OSs to constantly record audio and send it to the government. Having an audio stack is proprietary. An OS should also not have video recording capability, since the government would then mandate any detected webcam to constantly stream video to a server. Wanting an OS to have any multimedia capabilities means you're pro mass surveillance. In fact, OSs should not support TCP/IP in the first place, since that enables the OS to upload surveillance data. :blobcat-googly:
governments will of course mandate that sites set a ridiculous minimum age For example, the government will require that gnu.org is 18+, as those "naughty jokes" will "traumatize the children" and then children wouldn't learn that freedom even exists. Kids won't be able to do research, as sites with lots of information like Wikipedia, would be forced by the government to set the age filter to 18+.
The slope just keeps getting more slippery! There are already laws mandating the horribly useless "are you 18" popups, and those only ever show up on adult sites. Also, remember that the computer owner decides whether any of this is honored in the first place. It's pure freedom and more freedom features for freedom parents who want to let their freedom kids use freedom computers.
Actually, metadata will be leaked by such implementation - it'll be easy to utilize JavaScript to narrow down the age to the exact day. [...] A more advanced attack, especially over days and months, or if the attacker is able to playing around with setting the date etc with JavaScript would allow determining the exact DoB.
This kind of stuff is really easy to prevent:
- Make the browser only do the whole check once per domain per day; the first min-user-age you get from the domain is cached for 24h.
- Only do it on top-level requests initiated by user navigation event, like entering a URL, or clicking a link, rather than dynamic resource loading, AJAX requests, or iframes.
At that point it becomes extremely burdensome (if at all possible) to exploit the system to reveal the user's exact age, let alone DoB. And a DoB isn't even a particularly sensitive piece of info, so there is no point jumping through hoops just to find out that piece of info about a website visitor. And then the website has no way of knowing if it's a real DoB or if it was rounded to month or quarter during OS setup.
There is no justification for why this feature hasn't been available since 20 years ago already. Only reason I can think is that the porn lobby is too powerful and that the software industry, like any other industry, has no morals.
@lispi314 @yrrsinn @cy @Suiseiseki @jpaskaruk
You act as though it's exceptional and not part of a broader pattern
It is exceptional. Under any group of average young men, if someone behaved like that, the majority would point out how utterly messed up it is and it would immediately shift the mood in the room. Even if it were a group of relatively 'sexist lads' otherwise, that shit won't pass in any group except for one with a particularly messed up subculture, such as that evidently associated with lolicon media.
The fact that you don't see that disturbs me and makes me unable to continue in good faith so it's indeed best to drop it.
@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:
@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo @phnt@fluffytail.org @kirby@freerobuxextremist.com
they just have to include the source code now
That alone would merely be "source available" proprietary software. This already changes the business model, since previously customers couldn't make local modifications to the extended proprietary version, and needed to pay the supplier to do this for them.
And the GPL demands even more: Customers must also be allowed to share copies of the original and any modified versions of the software. This further changes the business model, since previously the only way to receive a copy of the extended proprietary version was to pay the original supplier.
That's two ways in which the business of the original supplier is affected. Some potential revenue streams suffer, meaning they may need to shift the focus of their business, i.e. change their model. Previously, they may have focused on marketing the unique features of the proprietary software and just focused on extending it with more and more generic features; now they must instead market their capabilities as software experts, hoping that people will come to them for support, consulting, and/or development of special versions with features tailored to the customer.
It's OK to argue that the former business model is predatory and unjust. Maybe even cowardly: They're afraid of competition, so they try to lock people into relying on them. However, so long as it's legal, you have to accept that many companies will prefer it.
But likewise, forking non-copyleft free software into copyleft software is legal, and people who publish non-copyleft free software with proprietary extended versions have to accept that some people may fork the free version into a copyleft extended version because that's their preference. Which is why I'm challenging @phnt@fluffytail.org's claim that this is somehow unacceptable.
Meanwhile there's YouTubers I keep forgetting that they exist even though I enjoy their content, because for some reason YouTube doesn't put them on my front page anymore.
(Yes I know about the "Subscribed" page... I have to clean it up some time and use it more.)
@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.

