Homosexual activity is illegal in Uganda. If they pass a law saying your OS should track that, is it moral for developers to enable compliance with it? Or do developers have a moral duty to at least not go out of their way to enable that bullshit, even if they risk a gajillion dollar fine?
By implementing a mechanism that enables this law, it becomes exponentially easier for lawmakers to then make it mandatory (as many already have/are openly planning to).
Yeah, the problem is the lawmakers. But I don’t have enough money to control the lawmakers. The creators of free software should not actively helping oppressive measures.
The PR is explicitly for the purpose of complying with age verification laws. Damn fuckin’ right I’m angry about it.
Is it cool if we start implementing tools to track users’ race and sexual orientation for the explicit purpose of complying with some country’s laws about those too? Or is it maybe the job of free software to defy oppressive systems?
Don’t forget my shitty country in the process of trying to implement this too 
Is this comment a joke? That or you’re very naive about the problems these things did cause.
As someone who deals on rare occasion with Linux PCs, both TPMs and Secure Boot have been a fucking PITA that have done nothing but help solidify the Microsoft/Apple/Google grip.
I know nobody asked for this - I live in the UK. Feels like we basically agree, but your solution is “why don’t the countries making stupid-ass laws implement it in a way that doesn’t bother me”, which like yeah sure, but just isn’t going to happen in any universe. Nobody will bother to fork stuff, countries will just continue to try overreach and make peoples’ lives hell until they comply.
Region-blocking is the lowest-effort, but actually achievable response, that protects devs from legal attacks, while giving the offending regions a strong incentive to undo these laws. As soon as it starts hitting profits, the capitalist class will get it reversed, no question.
MariaDB is already cooler, obviously.
Very weird though that both it and MySQL are owned by private equity.
In my mind, region-blocking is actually probably the best solution for this in every case.
Cut off every legitimate operation in these regions (including my own) from using your genuinely useful software. Software isn’t compromised, saves on unnecessary work and law compliance. Then everyone with a VPN flourishes anyway. And then maybe it hurts profits so much that lawmakers actually decide to reverse course. Wins all around.
Fair enough about persistence, I can see why one might want it, but I genuinely haven’t even thought about it in 10 years of use, and the overhead of one-click on occasion is pretty small. I probably click it less than once a month. So I can see why it’s not implemented.
Interestingly it does persist other things like list sort order, so you’d have thought they’d offer the option. One wonders if they wouldn’t happily accept a PR to add such a thing?
What is an android-style application launcher. You mean like as a default ‘Open With’ dialog? That feels like a niche want, but I mean fair enough to want it. Something like Junction not do it for you? Then just have file types you want to do that open via that instead.
Either way, it would be cool if Nautilus was extensible like GNOME shell. I don’t deny this. I’m largely just confused by OPs claims.
Very true, and this is a good argument for the importance of diversity in everything Linux.
The fact that there are distros not using it at least means there’s room to fuck off to those if this gets out of hand.
I’m a bit confused. I use Nautilus/GNOME Files, and I quite honestly can’t think of anything it’s missing that I want. Can you be more specific about this missing basic functionality? Or is it just non-Nautilus file managers?
If anything, I’m frustrated that Windows File Manager doesn’t have all the features I use on Nautilus. Here’s eight that just come to mind off the top of my head.
I assumed it was a foreign thing, but no, it was actually made in America.
Kimball and Mattis formed the acronym GIMP by adding the letter G to “-IMP”
I’d done it, I’d smuggled in one of those RISC-whatever boxes. The hardware that doesn’t require a live-scan of your irises and your digital ID to interface. This baby can visit websites without even scanning your brainwaves. I don’t know what country it came from - You’re not allowed to know about foreign countries before you’re 40, the computer blocks them, it’s something about preventing “unauthorised gooning”.
Just as I sat down, I heard it - the info-chopper, they knew. I grabbed my illegal CPU just as the door was bust open, “INFORMATION PROTECTION OFFICER, CLOSE YOUR EYES AND TELL ME YOUR BIRTHDATE!” You see you’re only allowed to hear certain parts of our rights depending on your details, it’s to protect you from dangerous information. Even seeing his face might evoke corrupted thoughts, but I didn’t care anymore.
I quickly, but pointedly, looked over, and saw him, cool leather jacket, gun, one of those brain-interceptor helmet things, like a hockey helmet made of cushions and diodes. “NO” I cried, “I WANT TO PLAY SNAKE WITHOUT PROVIDING MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER!”.
With that war cry, I cheesed it, spurred on by the sky-high promise of reading a ‘potentially offensive’ Wikipedia article, in private.
Why would anyone on Linux, having free choice of all Linux OSes, choose one that actively compromises your privacy?
This is why Linux should never be a corporate, paid-for ecosystem. The nerds that keep all this shit running for free will not be interested in maintaining spyware OS.
??? Firstly, my post was a funny one about piss.
Secondly, “It is estimated that a third of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process”, so, averaging 30%, not 70.
Thirdly, fossil-fuel based fertilizer production is unnecessary and has harmful side-effects. It’s doable completely without fossil fuels, and the fact we’ve not divested even more out of that already is our own stupidity, not a reason to say “fossil fuels good”.
…excessive use of nitrogen-based fertilizers has severe environmental consequences, including biodiversity loss, soil and freshwater degradation, and substantial greenhouse gas emissions.
85 to 95 per cent of nitrogen applied to soil is lost and does not make it to us as food.
Food security is possible with less nitrogen: with massive overuse and low use efficiency, much nitrogen can be spared without reducing yields. With nitrogen scarcity and soil mining, recycling should be increased before and besides adding new external nitrogen.
Fourthly, given the amount of BEANS I eat, that in fact do their own nitrogen fixing. I daresay my percentage of fossil-fuel derived fertilizer-enabling nitrogen is actually much lower. 
So what, now my piss is liquid gold???
Well yeah, of your ‘two’ pre-approved options. And even then the majority of people will not have voted for the winner.
“Of your choice” isn’t even true.
I’m at the last stage, and unapologetically so. I very frequently buy games and media, and/or donate to creators, IF it’s actually good, the developer/publisher isn’t a pos, and the price is vaguely fair.
I won’t pay for subscription services. I’m basically at the point where I won’t buy a game or piece of media if I can’t pirate it first.