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Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint Eye Age Verification Amid California Law Backlash

Cut these States out. Forever. Let them be as examples of what happens. Stop providing them FOSS and maintenance.

Or

Will have to write a software license targeting companies and boot lickers imposing kyc.

I wrote the, not yet published, framework between sqlalchemy and web routers e.g. litestar and FastAPI.

Will be monitoring this. If it appears distros are more than willing to impose kyc or even entertain the notion (kyc as a thought crime), will expressly exclude them by imposing rates that would bankrupt countries.

You cannot impose kyc so can use my own packages and expect me to go along with it.

Also can contact other developers and ask them to switch over to an aggressive no-kyc license from their permissive licenses. Targeting packages known to be used by offending distros or other distribution channels.

kyc is a cancer. Will enthusiastically hunt it down and ostracize it.

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Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint Eye Age Verification Amid California Law Backlash

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What i'm suggesting is a supply chain attack targeting only imposers of kyc. Only change is the license.

Each web site is built on a tech stack. With shared tech stacks. There are only a few possible choices.

Would only have to convince very few authors and it affects the entire planet. Cuz many of these packages are not easily replaced.

Our tech stacks are hanging on by a thread. Maintenance is very underfunded which screams, at risk! Without the good will of maintainers and them self-funding the maintenance, all the companies making web sites would have have legal liabilities hanging over their heads, if they ever dared to have their web site impose kyc.

Is there anything else can help to clarify?

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Would like to modify aGPLv3+ license and include the following clause

Web sites, apps, blockchain smart contracts, desktop apps, or scripts that include Background IP in their tech stack and found to advocate, consider, or impose kyc on their users, having not obtained a waiver beforehand, incurs fee of the amount, 10x previous year's GDP of the country with global reserve currency status or largest economy, whichever is greater. User authentication should be limited to the top 2 private privacy IMs. Login walls requiring email verification is kyc. Paywalls that don't provide the option for Monero or offer Monero payment option but not at a discount, is kyc. Physical address verification, although kyc, as long as there is a physical product involved, does not trigger this clause.

aGPLv3+ already says companies have to seek waiver for commercial use from the author.

This is how Python package authors say, Sure np there is just a fee involved.

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Meta Patents Technology to Detect Your Mood by Constantly Analyzing Your Tone of Voice

What is the novelty of that? Did they invent mood, voice tone, computers, or coding?

Also it's against the public good. So shouldn't be protected by gov't. We don't need Minority Report childish "tech" deciding how to censor, not only our speech, but our tone of voice?

Doubt this patent could stand up to scrutiny. Is this all Meta can come up with? They better stick to buying up companies.

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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

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any sufficiently washed crypto is better than fiat

Actually not really. opt-in privacy is worthless. Being the only one making private transactions within a sea of users making transparent transactions is worthless.

paper fiat currency is mostly anonymous for offline transactions between two people.

For online transactions, privacy is actually very very hard. So not all cryptocurrency are created equal.

And mentioning ETH and pretending it's a cryptocurrency is misleading. It's PoS (1998 technology). PoW was created to solve the problem of PoS masternodes.

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5 tools that helped me modernize a legacy app

Tools i recommend:

  • rebuff -- finds places in code to replace with better algorithms. Wanted a tool to recommend itertools and itertools-more usage, but achieve that. Chosen cuz it's not Rust.

  • typos -- fixes typos in both code and docs

  • mypy+pyright+stubtest -- need all of them. pyright phones home. mypy isn't enough it misses way too much.

  • pretty format YAML

  • cyclonedx-bom -- create software bill of materials

  • pip-licenses -- NOTICE.txt and licenses.json Answers question does my toolchain include virus licensed packages?

  • interrogate -- Any code documentation missing? Does not enforce documentation quality.

  • wreck -- sync requirements files; otherwise it's tedious (i'm the author)