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Where the hell are the people who made up insane shit about Vaxry, or tried to cancel Ladybird? Where are they when there's a real insane Orwellian legal issue and not some trivial bullshit?

There are already several distro who have said no to age verification:

https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify

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I think the earth is round. I'm a "globe-head," but I have MAD respect for people who hold such a controversial viewpoint. I think they're wrong, but I've read a lot of their stuff and don't think they're stupid.

I'm 50/50 on the moon landing. You would probably be too if you actually looked into it.

The scientifically learned use to thing leaches and bloodletting was innovative. Many of the things we think of as being scientifically enlightened today will be looked upon with horror 200 years from now.

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2026-03-04-freebsd-users-we-n...

I'm not so sure about his "real value," but I think he makes a decent argument, and he acknowledges the limitations of LLMs at the bottom. As someone who is critical of slop-coding and limits my use of the weighted random code generators, I think his points are worth reading.

The post isn't about the FreeBSD community. It's specifically about how Anthrophic is saying "f-you" to any type of cross-platform agent at all. They've closed issues for OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, and many others:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22564

This gets into the issue so many others have brought up: the death of open source. You can just get Claude or GPT to write you a new tool based on other's tests and specs. Now something that was GPLv3 can now be whatever your want, although it will probably be slower, shittier and more difficult (if not impossible) to understand and maintain.

The future is here folks, and it's stupid.

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The reason nothing happened was because Snowden is still a State Dept or CIA asset. He's an actor and/or a limited hangout of some kind to show the US government and claim to be doing absolutely insane bullshit and nobody cares. New Zealand retroactively changed their laws (clearing John Key of any wrong doing for illegally spying on Kim Dotcom), allowing the GCHQ to legally spy on all their citizens.

As far as refusing to work for these companies, I was on Linux at work for over a decade. But after my last job I was forced to take a .NET role and with a $30k/yr paycut. It'd like to get back into a good role again where I can use Linux, but I'm not sure if I'd be willing to stand my ground on this issue, because I also don't want to lose my house and software jobs are incredibly scares right now. Unlike Snowden, I don't have a government paycheck coming in to continue spreading lies.

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Lincoln was not a good guy or pro-American (anti-speech, anti-due process), but he's viewed positively only because he won.

and as far as the Washington Compost, we know from the Church Committee the CIA likely has operatives in there. So unlike Lincoln, there was no real need to raid WaPo. It was likely just for show.

Even the concept of the joke is equally nonsensical (although I guess the Adams version at least has a backstory with DeepThought).

Next year the meme will just be 42 and the zoomers will pretend it's something totally new and original.

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This whole ICE thing is a psychological operation. It's media manipulation and all the people violently protesting are useful idiots falling for it, or they're feds in disguise instigating more violence to turn around and give more crackdowns.

Don Lemon is one of the chosen media elites. He can sexually assault people and nothing happens. He's a terrible human being, but nothing will come from this. It's all smoke and mirror.

Go outside and turn off your phones people.

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