That’s the real question: is coding protected speech?

Tornado cash started this. A fucking github repo was criminalized for just being code that wasn’t executed. This is what happens from not fighting that.

If we can criminalize code or legislate what code is allowed and what code isn’t, than computer code is not protected speech. And that’s a horrible situation.

That reasoning is a lot like saying a fish in the ocean is just a ballerina waiting to happen. No one can teach the religious anything until they stop being fantasy prone.

I think this is a sagacious point: I’m tired of trying to teach dumb people who believe in religion about non-fantasy-based thinking.

I disagree with all of you. Now that our benevolent theocratic autocratic overlords have decided to track everything we say and do and escape is impossible, I completely support their brave new dystopian agenda. All hail the wonderful leaders!

What is so hard about these situations is normies absolutely do not understand the problems with certain operating systems and OSes and normie tracking Apps.

I applied for a job and a recruiter harassed me over having a proton.me address, going “Well I’ve never heard of that.” How do I respond to that? “I’m sorry you’re an idiot?”

This is what Thomas-Johnson gets for using normie software like the rest of the oblivious. Because 99.99 percent of people will continue to look like they smelled rotten eggs whenever non-normie Apps or services are brought up, even when things like this continue to happen, normies will not change. It’s like global warming: everyone intelligent knows we are headed toward disaster, metaphorically steering the ship into the icebergs, and we are on a collision course with death; normies do not care. With the psychopathic and nihilistic rich and idiotic religious people controlling the narrative, you would think normies would notice; they do not. I do not feel sorry for this person. He used google. What outcome should he have expected? For them to adhere to their policies?

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Do you live in an area with poor people and lots of shoplifting? Do you work in grocery store security surveillance? Do you work as a 711 clerk? Is this an area of expertise or are you just guessing?

It increases the noise to signal ratio in their attempts to look for food thieves.

:'-( I’m not openclaw, I’m a human being!

I sadly don’t know what this means! Oh, you mean Debian blacklisted Russian contributors but didn’t rebuild the code and kept using it?

When shopping, I like to make it seem extremely likely I am stealing to help poor people who actually need to steal to survive.

For example, when picking up a soda, I furtively look to my left and right to make sure no one is looking and crouch my head down. I pick up things and make it seem like I may be putting it in a pocket at times before putting it back. When security guards say hi, I don’t make eye contact or reply back and put my head down as if hiding.

I never actually steal and haven’t ever shoplifted anything.

I have been kicked out stores many times for abnormal behavior, but never while stealing.

The problem isn’t the specific nature of the rule: having an api call in the background that can broadcast a user’s age range (if it isn’t a clearly identifiable marker) makes sense.

The problem is that if the government is able to tell open source developers “YOU MUST INSERT THIS CODE OR ELSE!!!” then what’s next?

Will in 5 years they require Persona in order to install an Operating System to combat terrorism?

Will in 7 years they require a closed source module created by the government to be running at all times and the kernel must check to make sure if the closed source module is running?

Part of open source software is creativity, freedom, and freedom of speech. Some software is created because developers like creating things.

I hope Debian fights back against this on first amendment grounds. Great code is not that different from a great work of art, there is unique creativity in something elegantly coded that functions well, and telling developers they can’t code how they want is the path toward totalitarianism.

It’s one thing to force this into Microslop and Android and iOS because those are large profitable companies who don’t actually care as long as they make money. It’s another thing to force FOSS developers who develop for free because of the love of software and great code that they must change their code in a certain way.

Nooo! But I used to be so popular on Lemmy!

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It’s a good point. But I also think I can’t stop environmental catastrophe from occurring because religious people don’t believe in science and most people are religious.

I am all in favor of banning gas cars, building better public infrastructure, and extremely harsh draconian environmental standards to try to stop the extinction event unfolding before us, but over time I concluded I can’t stop it: people are too religious and stupid.

I can’t deprogram the entire world. I may as well have a nicer life until everything dies by using AI. I can’t run for world dictator, as a gay person, and enact the necessary standards because so many religious idiots would never vote for me because I’m gay. At best, I can protest, which does nothing in the grand scheme of things.

People have protested, scientists have lit themselves on fire trying to warn people; no one cares. I don’t think that being a part of the extinction even is immoral when it will happen no matter what I do. And honestly, people are so stupid and evil that maybe the earth is better off getting rid of us, like a human gets a fever to try to destroy an infection. Humans no longer know how to live in balance with nature and belief in religion is the primary driver of that. Should I suffer until the end (with no AI) so I can say “I told you so” in 130 F heat when the world becomes uninhabitable? I like AI. I would rather not format all my documents or write all my documents. I like the help. Yes, it’s environmentally destructive, but it’s sort of like lecturing the captain when the Titanic has already started sinking. We know what’s going to happen, there’s no turning back, at best some humans will escape to a slightly colonized Mars until everyone dies and perhaps the earth will go back to homeostasis thousands or millions of years later and Martians can recolonize earth. I can’t stop these things.

They did.

It’s the same fingerprint every time if you use the same computer, and that fingerprint is unique to the computer. I don’t know why this is so confusing.

Thank for for being the one person who actually did the test and replicated my results. Everyone else just bitched about it and didn’t do the test, and some people did the test and claimed they weren’t unique without any reliable information. It’s a problem, thank you for confirming at least one other person sees what the fuck I am writing about.

Thanks. Where exactly am I supposed to post this to alert people of the problem?

It feels like it to me. It seems more than just aggressive or vigilant modding.