I’m always getting powers of ten wrong.

Regardless 500 workers Vs one CFO?

That would include the CFO too, right?

Alternative viewpoint. You could have retained 5,000 employees.

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Tying everything on the internet to a government ID is the end goal here. That is what all the age verification laws are enabling, intentionally or not.

In a land of ICE forcefully deporting people and people losing their lives in foreign prisons or just for resisting a little, do you not think privacy is more important now than ever?

This man took a step on the road of removing all of our privacy, and the community shouted “WTF DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?!?!”.

57% of adults worldwide experienced a scam in 2025

Sure. I experienced a scam and I told them to “fuck off”.

That’s not 57% fell for a scam, or 57% of android users got scammed by “side loaded” software. It’s cherry picking a stat just justify a monopolistic practice.

As a thought experiment: please recommend them a better way than bullying

We could:

• reject the PR: no, because it’s already accepted by the lead.
• try to argue with the project maintainers: already failed. This is systemd we’re talking about. They are used to just plowing on regardless of what the wider community thinks.
• reject the software: systemd is fundamental to a lot of systems, so this is very painful.

It’s not hard to see why people have resorted to bullying. It’s not right, but there’s no way to make your voice heard. OSS development is not a democracy. It’s a do-ocracy. Those that d"do" dictate. Fine when the developer is aligned with the users. Chaos otherwise.

You’re not going to get something complying with Californian law out of Brazil (for example), so you’re talking about diverging. California can have it’s own version. Sadly that pushes burden onto maintainers that may not be interested in dealing with the pain.

The engineering mindset is to have it support both use models, but that is explicitly what people don’t want. Hidden features which enable authorities to enforce toxic concepts.

It’s one battlefront of many, and a fairly significant one. As we’ve become on online society, computer software has come to encode human rights to expression and privacy. Those rights are worth fighting for.

Unless you’re randomising it constantly, it still becomes part of a fingerprint for you.

A large part of the disagreement was never a tech debate. Systemd on a purely technical level had advantages, but the arguments were always about a concentration of functionality into a single critical program. Great while things are going well. Hell when it falls apart. That fear wasn’t totally based in technical reasoning.

So Nexi can’t justify it. FSFe would be entirely within their rights to seek a judicial path.

I’d happily contribute towards that case.

In which case Nexi should be able to state clearly that they are required to ask for this data by law.

My point was they have different strengths rather than saying one is better than the other. Use the right tool for the job, and all that.

What association is it you object to?

gimp /gĭmp/

noun

1. A narrow flat braid or rounded cord of fabric used for trimming.
2. Spirit; pep.
3. A limp or a limping gait.
4. A person who limps.
5. A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; – used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.

intransitive verb

1. To walk with a limp.

transitive verb

1.To notch; to indent; to jag.

adjective

1. Smart; spruce; trim; nice.
2. Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.

Granted, the fourth definition, as a limping person, could be mildly disabilist but I think it’s just a case of an old English word becoming two words in different regions (Limp / Gimp).

Krita is excellent, but it’s for a different task.

Krita is for image creation. GIMP is for image manipulation.

That’s more like our Conservative party doing it (which they are), but Labour is meant to be a worker’s party.

Same thing in the UK. Just replace Democrats with Labour and MAGA with Reform.

It’ll be over in 4 days years

A Total Perspective Vortex if you will. Only a true narcissist survives.