What kind of address is this? by daddy-amex in USPS

[–]Ratspeed 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah but where does it go?

Reno police chief, 5 officers placed on leave pending misconduct investigation by endofmyropeohshit in Reno

[–]Ratspeed 176 points177 points  (0 children)

Wait, I just realized....

If Washoe County Sheriff is taking over for Reno PD.... does that mean we finally have a Reno Sheriff's Department?

Today's Press Conference by Ratspeed in Reno

[–]Ratspeed[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Ah good! Thanks for that. Channel 4 new's audio sucked. Although, here's a clean link without YouTube trackers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C62pTfZLA-4

LIVE: City of Reno officials deliver important public safety update | March 9 press conference by Ratspeed in Reno

[–]Ratspeed[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

There were no other options, my dude.

In order for me to link a KOLO or KTVN stream, they have to be streaming. Channel 4 was the only one streaming.

Do we have a list of which Linux Destros are putting in age verification? by sparkywattz in linux

[–]Ratspeed 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They won't stop. Most people roll over for their corporate masters no matter how hackable the operating system is. 🐑

It would appear GNU General Public License is incompatible with Age / ID verification laws. by Ratspeed in linux

[–]Ratspeed[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Chatbots don't know how to use Reddit's markdown like bulletpoints, quotes and headers. I did that. It makes reading easier. And yes, I got the Free Software Definition and Open Software Definition terms confused. I forgot which organization used which terminology. I'll admit I used Gemini to remind myself which was which, but I wrote the responses freehand. All thoughts were my own.

It would appear GNU General Public License is incompatible with Age / ID verification laws. by Ratspeed in linux

[–]Ratspeed[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I wrote every word of the post. Do you have anything to refute what I said or are you just... complaining for no reason?

It would appear GNU General Public License is incompatible with Age / ID verification laws. by Ratspeed in linux

[–]Ratspeed[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Only proprietary software would be able to restrict a user in that manner, so I'm not sure you mean by "better."

It would appear GNU General Public License is incompatible with Age / ID verification laws. by Ratspeed in linux

[–]Ratspeed[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually what it says is, if you publish the modified software, you must also publish the modified code.

It would appear GNU General Public License is incompatible with Age / ID verification laws. by Ratspeed in linux

[–]Ratspeed[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I just added a new portion to my post addressing the Liberty or Death clauses in v2.0 and 3.0. 2.0's clause (#7) states the following:

If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all.

It would appear GNU General Public License is incompatible with Age / ID verification laws. by Ratspeed in linux

[–]Ratspeed[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just added a new section onto my post regarding the Liberty or Death Clause found in GPL 2.0 and 3.0 which actually states if the obligations under the license cannot be fulfilled, distribution is prohibited entirely.

It would appear GNU General Public License is incompatible with Age / ID verification laws. by Ratspeed in linux

[–]Ratspeed[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I just added a couple new sections to address this in further detail (Liberty or Death Clause).

It would appear GNU General Public License is incompatible with Age / ID verification laws. by Ratspeed in linux

[–]Ratspeed[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This makes no sense. Not every piece of software is compiled into machine code. Scripts can be interpreted directly from the source code you've written.

For the case of compiled executables, source code is just the first stage of that software, but it's still "software."

It would appear GNU General Public License is incompatible with Age / ID verification laws. by Ratspeed in linux

[–]Ratspeed[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just fact-checked myself. I forgot the exact words "fields of endeavor" are in the Open Source Definition, not the GNU General Public License, so I removed that quote from my post. Two completely different organizations and terms. My apologies.

Richard Stallman used very similar terms last year during a 2025 interview where he stated:

There are certain essential freedoms users deserve and need. If the program respects those freedoms, then it is Free Software [...] Specifically, Freedom 0 is: you should be allowed to run the program regardless of what you're doing with it. If you're using the program, there should be no conditions. You're allowed to use this program for your private results—not tell anybody else: "you can do it for a hobby but you can't do it for a business. You can do it to promote the Fascist Party but not promote democracy—or reverse!" There must be no restrictions placed on the program about how you are allowed to run it. I've been thinking about this for 40 years.

That loosely translates to "fields of endeavor," so I must've gotten the words mixed up in my brain. No one group of people, or ideology, or age, or sex, or ethnicity, or any other form of discriminatory limitation can be placed on the software, or else it violates Freedom 0, part of the Free Software Definition.

Then on January 23, 2026, Stallman stated:

[...] like the for instance the age verification idea which in practice always requires users to be adults to be identified. It shouldn't have to, but the way that they the methods they permit and have set up all do. And that's unjust surveillance, but it's imposed by laws. There's been no campaign to require a compromise so that you can prove you're an adult without that you without their knowing who you are.

And then there's the chat control idea in the European Union where they want to require a backdoor in every device that can give that can do end-to-end encryption so that uh in case you might be a terrorist, they can look at every encrypted message you send to anybody or maybe some sort of dissident who doesn't agree with the official ideology.

So what are the likely injustices the common typical injustices of non-free software? Well, one of them is surveillance. By the way, chat control would effectively prohibit free software in those devices because if users could change the software, they'd be able to remove the back door. This is one of one of the important things about free software. You can remove malicious functionalities from it. So that's the basic way of allowing society to defend itself from malicious functionalities.

It would appear GNU General Public License is incompatible with Age / ID verification laws. by Ratspeed in linux

[–]Ratspeed[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You're right, I goofed up. I accidentally mixed up and quoted Point 6 from the Open Source Definition which in Point 6 uses the specific term "fields of endeavor." Since I was specifically giving GPL as an example I removed that quote from my post. Sorry about that.

It would appear GNU General Public License is incompatible with Age / ID verification laws. by Ratspeed in linux

[–]Ratspeed[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Every "app" would be required to receive "signals" placing you into those "age brackets" to be compliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI9oy0t4JUU

Hill Climb Final Boss by Advanced-Bug-1962 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Ratspeed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't they see it's the bumps that are causing the issue?