Post #2277428
2026-05-08 20:38 UTC
Replies (19)
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@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space 2026-05-09 00:52
@nik@toot.teckids.org whoa that's AWFUL. that betrays so many core ideals of the movement.
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@malwareminigun@infosec.exchange 2026-05-09 03:57
@nik@toot.teckids.org I’m guessing they don’t want the liability of COPA and similar Acts. 😟
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@AnachronistJohn@zia.io 2026-05-09 04:36
@nik@toot.teckids.org This is what corporations do.
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@lunarloony@dosgame.club 2026-05-09 06:13
@nik@toot.teckids.org Yeesh. Hopefully this is just a bone-headed, ill-informed mistake
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@ratsnakegames@mastodon.social 2026-05-09 06:24
@nik@toot.teckids.org ... as in, young people are no longer allowed to just visit the website and download openSuSE? Wut?
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@xela@troet.cafe 2026-05-09 11:34
@nik@toot.teckids.org what the... It's about this page, right? https://en.opensuse.org/Terms_of_site This must be a mistake. Or they're totally lost...
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@syphist@zoner.work 2026-05-09 11:43
@nik@toot.teckids.org dafuq. I get the ban for account creation, but it's also far from an actually good idea. The person who picked up Canonical's Unity DE and maintained it was a minor. Such a restriction could prevent people from doing such things.
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@kaasbaas@social.oevents.co.za 2026-05-09 13:39
@nik@toot.teckids.org wow, that's...over zealous...
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@RuchiraSDatta@mathstodon.xyz 2026-05-09 19:21
@nik@toot.teckids.org I got my first job programming for AT&T at 14. This ban is ridiculous and outrageous.
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@ffmancera@mastodon.social 2026-05-09 19:59
@nik@toot.teckids.org I wonder where this come from, I recently noticed in Fedora too. Not sure if it is new there, but in essence you need to confirm that you are at least 16 years old.
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@adingbatponder@fosstodon.org 2026-05-09 21:38
@nik@toot.teckids.org Lunacy does not begin to describe this lunacy which is mad and bad and dumb. Not sure which is worse to be honest. Any under age user that stops using the site as a result of the tripe warning is likely not going to be into Linux because that requires a f%^& you watch me do it anyway mentality and frankly is it so stupid it is a non rule and makes stupid people look clever in comparison.
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@kmichal@fosstodon.org 2026-05-10 07:51
@nikclayton@mastodon.social SCNR https://xkcd.com/456
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@srslypascal@chaos.social 2026-05-10 08:58
@nik@toot.teckids.org The sooner young people learn to ignore nonsensical bullshit regulations the better.
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@tranquillity@mastodon.minionflo.net 2026-05-10 09:48
@nik@toot.teckids.org truly putting the Open in OpenSUSE
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@freddy@social.security.plumbing 2026-05-10 12:17
@nik@toot.teckids.org danke dir, Nik
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@nik@toot.teckids.org 2026-05-10 15:01
I am surprised about the interest in this issue. Thanks! Please consider two things: * Communicate to the openSUSE project directly that, and why, you oppose. You could respond on the mailing list I linked. * If you can, become a sponsor of @Teckids@bildung.social on Liberapay or through some other means, so we can handle such cases and help other projects with our experience in a more coordinated and less stressful way: https://liberapay.com/Teckids/ Thanks!
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@mason@partychickens.net 2026-05-10 15:59
@nik@toot.teckids.org SuSE is driving towards slop addiction anyway. Better for kids to experiment with Gentoo or NetBSD, or maybe projects that maintain a good track record without having a strong no-slop policy like FreeBSD, Slackware, OpenBSD, Debian, etc. (Although if they get into Slackware, keep them away from IRC, or at least Libera. ##slackware on Libera.chat today is like #freebsd on Freenode was a decade ago, in some respects, and maybe worse in others.) Having been a young hacker in the early 80s, I can lend you some comfort. People can and will become lifelong free software advocates and contributors without a community, and this includes community driven by a corporate project. Also, look at it this way: If OpenSuSE wants to drive themselves to extinction, what better way than erasing their mindshare amongst the young? All that aside, I'm not at all against people telling them how foolish this move is.
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@jtb@toot.wales 2026-05-11 08:23
@nik@toot.teckids.org There are plenty of mirrors from where you can get #opensuse What site is it referring to? https://mirrors.opensuse.org/
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@kkarhan@c.im 2026-05-16 00:17
@fuchsiii@oxytodon.com @suqdiq@chaos.social @malwareminigun@infosec.exchange @nik@toot.teckids.org I'd question that given that espechally with IPv4 the address space is small enough to make brute-forcing / rainbow-tabling this practical. - But there's yet legal precedent to be established