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I really do not understand the hate :/

The itsfoss interviewer goes into this:

A lot of backlash isn't about the code change, but about what it represents.

You say this is "just attestation, not verification" but we know that infrastructure always gets repurposed later. This is where the legit fear lies.

Do you think regulations like these will reshape desktop Linux in the next 5-10 years where we might have "compliant Linux" and "Freedom-first Linux"?

Sam Bent's article also goes into this (although, fuck that clickbait title): https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

He read the laws, decided compliance was the correct response, and went to work. Every objection the community raised went nowhere: that this enables surveillance infrastructure, that lying is trivially easy, that the laws themselves are unconstitutional overreach. He'd already accepted the law as legitimate and moved to implementation.

He read the law, took it at face value, and started writing code. The word for what that is sits somewhere past malice, something more insidious: an engineer who treats compliance as engineering, who sees a legal requirement the way he sees a technical specification, and will implement whatever the spec says regardless of who wrote the spec or why.

The reason to name him is the pattern. The surveillance state runs on volunteers: people who do the implementation work for free, out of genuine conviction, with no paper trail connecting them to the money that wrote the laws.

So... should I start stashing my cash under my mattress?

Not surprising, this guy is also onboard with Google locking down Android: https://dylanmtaylor.com/posts/2026-03-19-googles-new-android-sideloading-flow-is-a-fair-trade

Why not let someone else do it then? Why eagerly sign up to be the one to do it?

Does anyone else get paralyzed on fixing small things because they're terrified of it becoming a larger thing?

This never occurred to me... I just thought I need to fix this. Shit. Debuff unlocked.

I guess “hire someone” is always an option, but it’s a difficult task sometimes, especially finding someone reliable.

Actually, this is way more annoying to me. I've been ripped off/scammed too many times. I hate blindly trusting other people to not screw me over. Just this week my AC mysteriously broke after a recent-ish visit from some HVAC "professional". I had to call another company cuz this is way more complicated than I can handle (for now...). After talking with the 2nd guy, it seems like the 1st guy didn't do the maintenance work properly... I tried researching and going with a reputable company, but damn it still feels like a shot in the dark. Completely random chance they may completely break my shit.

Also, for some work, I've noticed I do it either at the same standard or better than some of these "professionals". So. Meh.

Yes, it may take me several weeks to do it, but at least I know I tried to do it right, instead of rushing off to the next job.

Nice.

https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#llmai-contributions

squidward opens chair: ooh, AGPLv3, nice

squidward closes chair: sign our CLA

which by the way was not expected to give perfect answers to questions

Except that's how a lot of people treat it. And there's so way to guard against that.

Related: https://brainmade.org/

Writing code never has been and never will be the bottleneck.

YES! I recently completed two code-heavy projects at work. My bosses kept asking me if I could use more AI to get the project done faster... and I kept telling them no! The bottleneck wasn't my typing speed. The bottleneck was me thinking through the design, thinking about edge cases, running experiments to validate hypothesis, testing out different API designs.

Typing out the code took like 1 day out of the 2 weeks. Code generation is not the bottleneck.

I'm kinda surprised people seem to be sleeping on Piefed. I decided to try it out recently and so far it just seems like a better Lemmy with zero downsides? We're both part of the same fediverse, so I can still see all the Lemmy comms from here.

It's a little more nuanced than that.

I will gladly write my own small, half-assed framework that I 100% know, can reason about, can debug, and can extend to fit my requirements. I will gladly pass on a fat-assed, bloated framework with a million dependencies, where I only need a few features, and where if I need something that isn't offered by the framework I have to submit a PR or add some janky-ass workaround.