I’m not even who you’re replying to but this is too interesting not to at least try to ask.

As this is probably going to be our first and last interaction I’ll preface this by saying we probably share a lot of the same values but it seems our approaches are different.

So here goes.

1. That’s a hard pass from me. As a concept i mean.

If you require me to read a set of rules to interact with you that’s an immediate red flag for me, regardless of how reasonable they are.

I’m not suggesting you stop requiring them, i’m just saying i’m also free to ignore them.

That being said i did actually read them on this occasion, i have no compulsion to abide by them, it just so happens that they mostly align with how i interact in general. That probably doesn’t seem like much of a distinction, but it is to me.

As a side note, I’m a stickler for word choice and a solid 90% of people i’ve ever interacted with who claim to dislike pedantic grammar police are actually salty because they are being called out logical incorrectness in their word choice or sentence structure.

This is purely anecdotal and i am in no way accusing you of this, but for me it’s an orange flag to see something like that.

2. That’s fair, i’d expect nothing less.

3. This is the interesting one, i don’t disagree on the principle but i’m interested to see how far through this you have thought.

As i said to the person i replied to, the issue here isn’t the field itself so much as the intention behind it.

If you’re far enough down the technological self reliance rabbit-hole to be compiling your own OS then you probably aren’t too fussed about dropping a few services if they mandate age verification, (the third party kind, not solvable by self compilation).

As a hypothetical. let’s assume somebody technically competent (but common sense deficient) has a visit from the good idea fairy and convinces someone in power to mandate age verification at the ISP level.

Is that a “stop using the internet” kind of moment or a “pirate ISP” kind of thing, perhaps a Cuba style local internet type deal or something else entirely ?

4. That’s a big ask for the everyday consumer, as it stands at least.

Does this way of thinking also address trust in the code itself or does that require you to read and understand all of the code being compiled, including libraries and other supply chain artifacts ?

Does it extend to hardware as well, with things like IME, PSP and perhaps DASH all the trust in the world won’t counter internal hardware based attacks ?

Not that i’m saying to do nothing, just wondering where you sit on this subject.