if i try and download a piece of software and the only option on the download page is an “paste this curl+bash fuckery into your terminal and enter your sudo password” then that software is automatically ass. just give me a tarball or a package repo, i am perfectly capable of administering my own machine

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every year, someone really close to where i live attempts a shitty rendition of the national anthem on their electric guitar before starting an ‘unauthorized’ firework show. the police usually show up pretty quick. this time, i counted about 4 explosions before they were forced to stop.

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every implementation of age verification i’ve seen either requires you to trust a provider with really personal information or your biometrics, and that alone freaks me out

this whole push for age verification is also going to potentially break smaller platforms and federated networks, and i don’t doubt there’s some involved in these pushes interested in centralizing internet activity onto big platforms that are easier to manipulate.

making pseudonymous users hand over PII and connecting a real person to a thing that’s only supposed to exist online is a problem for people who just like having their actions disconnected from themselves, whistleblowers or people that could be in actual danger if their identities were known.

i could list more but character limits are beating my ass, apologies for all the rewrites lmao

view postevery implementation of age verification i’ve seen either requires you to trust a provider with really personal information or your biometrics, and that alone freaks me out