That's the slippery slope fallacy. You assert that communications will be banned as a consequence of this, but provide no evidence that this will cause the banning of all communications.

The assertion is not that something will inevitably happen because of this other than the further normalization of government authority over individual autonomy. That is an inherent result of this, as well as the prohibition of sale of alcohol and drugs to kids. You can argue on and on whether or not these are good, righteous, moral laws, but you cannot deny the intrinsic fact that widespread acceptance and even support of widening the scope of government control normalizes government control

Government control is the only way to address corporate abuse, because they are the only body that have both enough power (to restrain corporations) and the possibility of being influenced by voters. Too much government control and you have a problem. Too little and you have no safeguard against bad actors.

Government already had the control. It's enforcing the will of the people, and the parents DO want this. So I don't see the issue.

Not sure who you have spoken to, but I don't know one single parent who wanted this. In fact most of them have said they will assist their kids to bypass it.

Looking at the Wikipedia entry for More, he's no angel but also no torch wielding maniac.

The punishment for "heretics" that he rooted out was almost always burning. He knew anyone found guilty would die by burning and was fine with that.

> Even slow non-tech legacy industry companies are deploying chatbots across every department - HR, operations, IT, customer support

Yes, and customers fucking hate it. They want to talk to a person on the damn phone.

> I have no idea if the code is any good, I’ve never looked at it and I have no idea how to code in Rust or Racket or Erlang anyway.

In that case, are you really producing multiple projects per week? If you've never looked at the code, have you verified that they work?

yes, I am using my voice agent, my head tracker, my sql writer, my odbc client, my shopping list, my sharepoint file uploader, my Timberborn map generator, my wireguard routing, my oxygen not included launch scripts, my i3wm config, my rust ATA over Ethernet with Content Addressable storage

the list could go on

The folks advocating for "straight pride" and the like have powerful allies in the Senate, House of Representitives, and the White House. I wish they would stop acting marginalized, it really is a bad look and it's quite infuriating to the people who are actually mistreated because of who they are.

This isn't even about straight pride, save a rational for the manainer to hide behind. It's "Gnome allows customization catered to the LGBT crowd, I'd like different customizatoin that's less in-your-face" - which seems pretty reasonable.

If anything, Gnome allowing customization in the first place is what I'm surprised by, not so much that they won't allow more (though the given reason is... questionable... at best)

Let's stop for a second here and think, what this issue is even about. Theming a progress bar. A progress bar. The interface element that's not present at all times while software is running.

Bazaar does not much at the moment beyond what Gnome Software or KDE's Discover is capable of. The features are nearly same: install/uninstall, search, flathub repo select and basic filtering options (free software, flathub only, maintained only). Plus this progress bar skin.

This whole fuss feels like it's on the same levels as that GIMP fork from few years ago which just took the code and replaced every occurrence of name because it's being considered by some people as an insult. Glimpse "project" is dead and honestly, I expect that this supposed game-changing "app store" here will be dead as well soon. Because people behind focus on a trivial issue instead of making their software actually standing off and rich on features.

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If they really consider this progress bar customization crucial for Bazaar to function then there should be a way to provide own texture from file, and colors from standard picker that would form either a gradient or bars. This is a really simple problem to solve - without shouting, calling names and pretending of being attacked.

Judging from the PR, the program expects you to choose a theme from a hard-coded list of existing options, and adding a new one requires changes to C code. So I'm not even sure it should be called customization.

My experience has been that even among the people invoking a concept of "straight pride", they aren't actually even claiming to be "oppressed" except satirically. The point is to stand on a (particular interpretation of) principle with regards to equal treatment.

As for the rationale, in my experience this sort of rhetoric is completely typical for Jordan Petridis (@alatiera).

I mean, regardless of the language, it's a PR to add visual, not functional, changes to a loading bar. I'd definitely call that customization; moreover, I'd call that exactly the kind of customization Gnome doesn't usually allow.

> this sort of rhetoric is completely typical for Jordan Petridis (@alatiera)

That's too bad. Gnome was the best (or at least my preferred) "DE" for my Pinephone, and Linux Mobile in general. Having to work in the vicinity of this kind of argument sounds demoralizing at best.

"anecdotally, some people in my life said something that was measurably true but that I didn't like. I think they're being phony."

Who is using motivated reasoning here?

Great, now I can procrastinate longer and still meet deadlines. By accelerating climate change.

> year 4 of mass layoffs in the US (because outsourcing)

A lot of the layoffs appear to be about conserving cash for investment in AI. In many cases the jobs that are cut are not backfilled by workers in the US or abroad.

I thought/hoped that's what this thread was about.

Different vegetable. But that was a prescient vision of modern AI.

This site is hostile to VPNs, so I cannot read this unfortunately.

I’m not even on a vpn and I’m getting an error saying the website is blocked.

One can't be a real infosec influencer unless one blocks every IP range of every hostile nation-state looking to steal valuable research and fill the website with malware

Arguably a skill issue. Which VPN worth its salt doesn't have a Sealand egress node?

0.0.0.0 / 0 ?

Thanks, I also hate it when I encounter websites that block VPNs.

I got a Cloudflare captcha to access a few kb of plain text. Chances are, the captcha itself is heavier than the content behind it. What is the point?

The point is to have Cloudflare serve the few KB of cached content instead of the original server.

You can have just caching without bot protection

It’s hostile to everyone!