Alaknár

The only reason they decided to obfuscate the use of Claude was due to the community starting wars and sending them death threats over it. Nobody is downplaying anything, they literally stated that they did that because managing shit-tier Issues that were all basically “why use AI” was becoming too damaging to the project.

I’m glad they did this because it finally gave me the push to move all my stuff to Codeberg.

by your claim, the field can have any series of numbers, that there is no way to determine if it is accurate, and the law that this was done to appease is bad, as in not able to obtain its expected result. and so the data is useless.

Yeah, so this tells me you have no clue what you’re actually talking about.

You don’t even stop to think for a second that maybe some enterprise setting requires such fields. Maybe they have software that populates account information based on their HR systems’ data, auto-creating user accounts? Maybe they can find a DoB field useful? Zero clue, zero thought, just “I don’t use it, therefore it’s useless”.

No point in continuing this discussion, I guess.

Again: what authority do you have to decide which data fields are useful, and which aren’t?

How do you personally differentiate between “useful” and “useless”? Is it: “I have no need for it therefore it needs to be removed”, by any chance?

Why hasn’t the discussion started when realName was introduced?

Someone may find these data points useful, for whatever reason. No point in being angry at a date field, mate.

because it’s too late at that point, which is the whole point and issue!

A PR is when the discussion is supposed to happen. It’s an open source project, nothing happens “too late” to discuss. You see that change in the pull request, you can start moaning about it.

if the field is necessary, but the data is useless, then it shouldn’t be there

Who defines what’s “useless”? You? On what authority?

So, how about we start freaking out when someone starts making these fields required, instead of right away?

However, once this field exists, it enables later reference and/or mandatory dependencies

Yeah, this is a devious plan that has been going on for years, when they added the realName field!

Ah, so what you meant to say is not “democracy is a joke” but rather: “people’s awareness of what’s going on is a joke”, I got it.

They’re not voting on the same thing they voted just recently. “Chat control 1.0”, as it is sometimes called, was passed 6 years ago - it was the voluntary monitoring that vendors were allowed to do. That law has just ended. The conservatives want to extend it. This is the current vote.

What they voted on a month ago was the “2.0” version, where monitoring would’ve been mandatory.

Nothing screams “democracy is a joke” more than voting on things, amirite guys?