Sylvia on Nostr: As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this ...
As someone who has been programming since being a young teenager, things like this make me enormously sad.
If I was banned from being part of tech communities until the age of 16 or even 18 I would've never been able to learn all I did. I would've never been able to truly get into FOSS.
I would've never had a chance to become who I now am.
Age verification is literally killing the ability for kids and teens to excitedly participate and learn cool stuff and learn how to have digital agency.
This evening has had a sad surprise for me.
Now, I am calling for #openSUSE to revert the recently imposed project-wide ban on young people:
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/project@lists.opensuse.org/message/6PU6JU2IGKDANYNN3KIXDR2UQSVP6JI2/
Published at
2026-05-10 08:55:25 UTCEvent JSON
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