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Because I value community, and I’m not interested in a community filtered through the interests of a profit driven company

I’m in this picture, and I’m ok with that :P

Two party politics

What am I missing? If someone steals your laptop they can just mountb the drive in their own hardware irrelevant of your bios.

Nope. I’m not telling anyone to avoid Framework or anyone else.

But they’re not the “ethical” choice. They’re another shitty company doing shitty things that hurt people. That should be a factor in your purchasing decision, but it shouldn’t be the whole of it, because it’s pretty much impossible to exist without supporting companies like that in some way or another.

And I’d argue that positioning their company as the moral choice makes their decision to support bigots worse than if they’d never positioned themselves that way in the first place. Which makes them basically no different to HP or DELL.

The question was are they moral. They’re not. The fact no one else is either doesn’t excuse that

Unless they’ve walked back their support of DHH, then they’re actively supporting an alt right racist/transphobe

https://www.osnews.com/story/143520/in-bizarre-move-framework-embraces-deeply-extremist-views/

Did they walk back their sponsorship of DHH?

https://www.osnews.com/story/143520/in-bizarre-move-framework-embraces-deeply-extremist-views/

Because supporting that bigot is outwardly unethical…

Transitioning.

Tattoos.

Joining the Fediverse

If it sticks around for long enough, it eventually gets logged

The difference is, phone companies and card providers between them can more easily lock down and restrict who has access to NFC compatible apps. There are no rogue payment apps popping up to challenge the status quo.

So they see more use in richer countries

Headline: Exactly 49 days

First sentence of article: 49 days, 17 hours and change

So is fanny for that matter…

To be clear, the blahaj one is for people to talk about the awful shit she’s doing and the impact it’s having on her victims. It’s not a community for people who support her or just want to have polite conversation about her that ignores the harm she is doing

What’s interesting about this, is you post it as if it’s a question, and despite getting an almost universal “Fuck no” as the answer to the question, you’re just arguing that we should do it.

If you want to do it, do it. But stop looking for validation for it. You’re asking for approval to celebrate and recognise someone who actively targets and harms trans people. You’re not going to get that approval. So either take that as the answer, or stop pretending it was ever a question.

Plus, it would help to bring in a ton of new users, to the Fediverse.

Yay, more folks who are happy to fund the erasure of trans people. Can’t wait! /s

Welcome!

I do. We’re on it already. The whole system is slipping towards an age gated internet, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. That’s the slope. There’s nothing I can do to stop it, whether I’m I stay on or get off.

I don’t believe that dropping my whole OS over a database field will change anything. It won’t stop the devs who are concerned about their legal liability from being doing what they need to do to protect themselves. Some devs will comply, some will walk away from OSS, and some won’t comply. But the bigger the project, the more corporate sponorship it relies on, the more certain it is going to be in the “comply” category, and the truth of that won’t change because users push back.

Which is to say, I don’t believe standing up and rejecting a DB field as a matter of principle will change anything, except to make my life harder.

My line in in the sand isn’t about changing the course of the path we’re on, it’s about my own personal interactions with the system. And being forced to provide my age to interact with the internet is the bit I won’t do. So I will stay with the inevitable creep towards that state until the last possible moment, in the hopes that somehow, I’m wrong, and we avoid this privacy nightmare we’re heading towards. If and when it becomes impossible to interact without providing that data, then that’s where I step off, even if it costs me half the internet.

They’re not the same though. Your method will enable the system to interact meaningfully with an age gated internet. Blank will not. And I won’t be interacting with an age gated internet…