Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children.
Space colony building sim Space Haven 1.0 is finally here https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/space-colony-building-sim-space-haven-1-0-is-finally-here/
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Digital rights management (DRM) enjoys bizarre legal protections so that it's a felony for me to give you the tools you need to move the books I wrote out of an Amazon app and into a competitor's app:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/#world-turned-upside-down
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“It’s inevitable” often means “we’re doing this against your will and without requiring consent because we’re in a position of power”
"Ex-Microsoft Executive Joins Microsoft Competitor, Drives It Into A Wall" really is a whole genre of its own, isn't it.
You still deserve privacy, even if you:
- don't use Linux
- use big social media sites
- aren't "techie"
- are just an average computer user
More than this, they also want it to be impossible to create software without renting all the tools from a capitalist.
They're trying to end the era of anyone being able to ship software using cheap commodity hardware and free tools.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
Gitlab started giving me bad vibes a few years back, and I abandoned my attempt to relocate my Github stuff over to it at that time.
This press release makes me _extraordinarily_ glad that I dodged the metaphorical bullet. The news itself is depressing, but the things it reveals about the company's leadership are inexcusable.
The thing we actually need to get off github is not for more people to tell people to get off github, its for some of you with the technical expertise and tech company salary to pay for or volunteer to do the work to finish forgejo's federation so it's actually possible to compete with the kind of network and reputation effects needed to remain employed that are the actual thing github provides.
