Post #2348861
2026-05-10 08:55 UTC
Replies (24)
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@tranquillity@mastodon.minionflo.net 2026-05-10 09:49
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social wait till LKML, FDO, and such will add mandatory ID verification for sending patches :neobot_woozy:
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@lunareclipse@snug.moe 2026-05-10 10:27
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social computer tech as a field is going to run into a decade of missing specialists because of this kind of shit. kids can't participate in software development because of draconian laws. fresh graduates can't get a job because of AI.
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@dansup@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 10:57
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social That is wild, I was 14 when I got into open source development, and can't imagine how shitty this will be for future kids like me.
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@b_rain@troet.cafe 2026-05-10 11:31
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social Oh wow, i have not thought of that… thanks for sharing!
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@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world 2026-05-10 11:49
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social is there a point to all this? Why now? Why the sudden clutching at pearls?
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@foxysen@social.mootech.eu 2026-05-10 11:56
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social the last paragraph should add "for adults" too because everyone grows up and it impacts them long-term. I think this part is important to push into readers subcon.
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@Thorium@social.linux.pizza 2026-05-10 12:17
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social Damn it. I thought opensuse was a good distro. 🤬
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@sense_t8n@fosstodon.org 2026-05-10 13:06
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social I agree
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@TheOneDoc@tech.lgbt 2026-05-10 13:22
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social I started to code when I was 12 and I learned the most from the kind people on my local BBS. We had an user meetup in '99. About a decade after I joined. The BBS had moved to a message board on a http server by than. The owner/operater of the BBS passed away in 2003 and most of the regulars are gone now as well. Anyways back at that meetup I was, by far, the youngest person present. I had taken my Dad along because he also wanted to meet the people who have been rather influential in my early life in person. They all mistook him for me 🤣 Edit: I should add that my Dad can not code and is still alive and well. Turning 81 next Month.
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@colinstu@birdbutt.com 2026-05-10 13:48
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @nik@toot.teckids.org my trajectory would be wildly different (for the worse) if I couldn't be on LinuxQuestions.org forum forever ago, being a clueless kid exploring linux and learning it all. (and learning some netiquette along the way... something that seems to be absent a lot more these days..)
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@SamantazFox@infosec.exchange 2026-05-10 13:58
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social Same. I wrote my first line of code in Visual Basic around age 8 or 9 under the guidance of my grandfather, then started to fiddle around on my own computers when I was 10 yo. I then continued to learn programming online as a teenager, followed by a full migration to linux. I can't imagine how different my life would have been if I had to wait 10 more years before learning so much about computers.
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@Rickd6@mstdn.ca 2026-05-10 14:13
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social as a teacher I really enjoyed (and in fact used) the interest of my students in programming and encouraged them to do so as best I could. [I have just about no programming skills.] They became quite capable well before 13 years of age.
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@gullevek@famichiki.jp 2026-05-10 14:31
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social @s_bergmann@chaos.social The damage we do right now with LLMs and people not beeing able to afford computers and prohibiting the next generation to actually learn will fuck us over so much. Any other country that doesn’t follow those tech Nazis bullshit will take over the world
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@annehargreaves@ioc.exchange 2026-05-10 14:41
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social Oh no. First, stop kids exploring the offline world (road danger, nasty people). Then stop them exploring the online world (porn, nasty people). What are they supposed to do?
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@xan@xantronix.social 2026-05-10 15:48
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social you know who has always sucked? Apple (god i can't believe i remember this story) https://apple.slashdot.org/story/02/03/25/1759218/apple-cuts-off-under-18-darwin-developer
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@jra@soc.jra.sh 2026-05-10 15:48
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social "The chameleon can change itself to any color the community wants, as long as it's washed out grey." -- Some mid-level MBA
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@murdoc@autistics.life 2026-05-10 16:11
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social I started to learn programming when I was about 10, but the internet didn't come around until much later. By then the crappy computer classes in school had pretty much killed my enthusiasm for it. I wonder what it might have been like for me if I had had online communities to help me while I still had the drive.
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@SK53@en.osm.town 2026-05-10 17:01
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social not just tech my Scottish godson started university at 17. Consequently he couldn't sign up for loads of student societies because he was under 18 and they would have to comply with child protection legislation. No sailing, although he'd sailed dinghy and yachts for 9 years by then, no kendo, etc, etc.
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@nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-10 18:10
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social I contributed to BOINC for a year before telling the main developer that I was 15.
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@smn@l3ib.org 2026-05-10 22:38
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social same, there's a direct link to my participation on the gentoo forums as a teenager to the skills that I employ every day in my professional and personal life some 20 years later
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@JeffGrigg@mastodon.social 2026-05-10 23:21
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social I was 14 years old when I started learning programming, in 1976. I was 19 years old when I started work, doing professional programming. And much of my first work was rewriting bad code written by a certain "senior consultant" who was running his own business. Also, customers favored my well-tested work over that of my boss. With today's computer availability, it's common for six year olds to start programming, with minecraft and similar. I support that.
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@m@miruku.cafe 2026-05-11 09:09
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social i thought this was about vaxry lmao
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@ell1e@hachyderm.io 2026-05-11 09:30
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social Sadly, the EU seems set on trying to impose this on probably any remotely unfiltered discussion forum. See e.g. here for the German app coming to rule us all: https://hachyderm.io/@ell1e/116549324370281605 Idk if it's fully decided yet but they sure seem about to make this happen
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@Christo_459@mastodon.me.uk 2026-05-11 14:12
@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social It would make more sense to take on the big guns in social media . The Facebook, X, etc and leave young folk alone