Hate the politician louder.

Hating a Dev? Broke.

Hating Governor Newsom? That’s on the money.

There is one small benefit to this speedbump on our road to freedom:

Governor Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California? Has been acting like he wants to run for President in 2028. He signed this into law for his state.

Make this an albatross on his neck. Sink him. Let him know that this crushed his dreams of ever being President. Publicly. Loudly. Don’t be satisfied until he quits twitter and retires from public life altogether, not just politics.

And for anyone in New Jersey? Get loud at your state reps phonelines now, they’re trying to pass the same in your state.

The problem is that if the government is able to tell open source developers “YOU MUST INSERT THIS CODE OR ELSE!!!” then what’s next?

What’s next is that code gets a build flag that’s turned off in the makefile, and maintainers have to explicitly turn it on for that code to compile in. Distros maintain patches that add this sort of thing all the time, even if upstream refuses to do so.

And Debian is saying that, as a non-profit, all volunteer org? This bullshit doesn’t apply to them. They are building a legal basis for the makefile solution I’m describing above, and its default-off state in their repositories.

All of your catastrophising can be addressed this way. We need devs like you who can help make sure this solution is implemented exactly as described.

Debian repos are great - we can even blacklist official repos and replace them with bare, sketchy IP addresses if we like, and share binaries through them.

You cannot stop the signal. Quit thinking like a voter trapped in a Fascist hellscape, and start thinking like a hacker that the state cannot outmaneuver.

Choosing to claim a niche where the law doesn’t apply is… A choice in favor of the law, instead of a circumvention method?

You’re thinking like a voter instead of a hacker. Stop that.

Real vulnerability or hallucinated?

Yeah, I’m not really into “dictatorship” of any sort. Y’all need to update your language to contemporary English.

Dig deep enough, read some history? And many on the Far Left contend that you do need to oppose things like Capitalism to oppose Oligarchy.

I’m no Marxist, but his observations on consolidation bear out. From that consolidation, we get oligarchy. From that oligarchy we get corruption and the worst sort of Epstein crimes imaginable. And it all reinforces each other.

What if we all decided together that the people who own Walmart and Amazon are the people who work there, instead of some parasites that sucked out enough wealth to never be able to spend it all for generations?

Inject flags for the spamfilter. Not kidding.

You know how the US government has 3 branches that are supposed to check and balance each other? We should teach that Corporations, Government, and Individuals/Unions operate similarly.

Corporate terms of service check individuals against abusing others. So do government laws.

Government is supposed to check corporations from abusing their customers. And customer boycotts moderate corporate behavior.

And corporations… Apparently moderate the flow of information to individuals so the companies always manufacture consent. And lobby for their own advantage.

If nothing else, by describing how it is, we can have a real conversation about how fucked/okay all of this is, and examine what parts of this framework are actually functioning.

And in that, we can explore where Unions fit - as 3rd party bosses steeped in corruption, or as genuine representatives of their people. And explore how to rebound in just the one context, because we are good citizens. 😇😅😉