Tootfinder

While I think the title is a clear “well, yeah”, I appreciate Sheri gives reasons regardless:
“Why you shouldn’t trust the people who built your inaccessible site to fix it”
https://buttondown.com/access-ability/archive/why-you-shouldn-t-…

Why you shouldn’t trust the people who built your inaccessible site to fix it
Paper wire frame of a generic website You commissioned a website. The agency delivered. The site contains blood, sweat, tears, and no small amount of your...

I've seen a bunch of "the CA age verification law is the best way to do a bad thing and so we shouldn't oppose compliance" takes, which others are rightly pointing out is a bad stance because it's blindingly obvious that compliance now sets the stage for compliance later and the clearly set up later is mandatory verification of age data. Even if you think that, for example, California's current "progressive" government won't go there, we're all currently seeing just how easy it is for a new government to pick up the oppressive tools the "good" government was using "restraint" with and put them to worse ends.
On the other hand, I'll freely admit that distros *do* need a way to shield themselves from liability right now. The clear (to me; IANAL) correct solution is to say on your website "don't download this OS if you're in a jurisdiction where it's not legal for us to provide it."). Assuming this does put you in the clear liability-wise, it has several positive effects:
- Stops zero people from downloading it.
- Makes it clear that your project will not collaborate with fascists/oppressive regime enjoyers.
- Means that when the next law makes verifying user ages mandatory (and/or explicitly requires using Palantir-adjacent services to do so) you've already got a strategy in place and there's no need for a "debate" in your "community" about compliance.
- Gets users more practice with "the law is malicious/needlessly bureaucratic/oppressive; let's ignore it" which to be honest people in general clearly desperately need at this point.
- Is the most effective political move if you want to resist the way things are going. Forcing the other side to explain why "California bans Linux" is good rhetorical strategy. Make *them* try to explain "well it's actually not so harmful since we let users set it themselves" and answer your follow-up "but what if next year the requirements change; I just refuse to go along with this slippery slope stuff and I'm not bothered if that means you want to *ban* me."
#AgeVerification

The Holistic Baby And Toddler Sleep Podcast
Join me as we discuss child sleep in a unique way that will make your think about the status quo and provide a new and holistic way of approaching parenting, child sleep and health...
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The ability to chat with AppleCare, via the messages app, is a game changer.
I don’t mind the waits when I get a notification on all my devices when they respond.
I wish more companies would offer Customer Service and Support via Text or Messages instead of those website chatbots.
I know Delta Airlines does this as well, I don’t think I interact with anyone else who does.
Please reply with other companies that do this. It’s important enough to me that I’d consider the…

So far I don't care for how I have activityPub integrated in to #tvmarks. It tried to be a full activityPub app but I think I just want to oauth with mastodon/bluesky and make post updates to the authed account.
I guess maybe this will mess up the idea of being able to reply to a post and it shows up on the website as a comment? I'm not sure, but I'm thinking about it.

And you need to write the homepage in html as a template or something instead of having an index.md? Ok ugh I don't think I like Zola actually. I was going to migrate my website to it today but nevermind.

Why is it that two of my hobbies have US national organizations who are actively working against their membership? The ARRL's bylawys changes to try to disqualify from election anyone who argues for change were embarrassing, and now AOPA is using legal action to try to stop a movement for transparency.
I think they are probably both em…

How We Got Here
Business history is wilder than you think. Join finance journalist and digital storyteller, Chris Kohler, as he delves into the corporate moments that were too ridiculous to make up, but too important to ignore...
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Deepthink
Antoun Issa of Deepcut News sits down with leading thinkers, experts and policymakers to think deeply about the pressing social, political, and geopolitical issues shaping Australia and the world...
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