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- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 4 hours ago:
I’d like to try an alternative to SystemD but I don’t know quite enough to filter the list of OS options for a gaming PC. I have Mint on desktop (modern GPU) with and OpenSUSE 14 on a server.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 4 hours ago:
I can see it’s just an optional text field but the ick isn’t optional. It’s leaning towards submission in comparison to resistance. I’m hoping such laws get repealed, rather than spread.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 21 hours ago:
Big tech has their claws deep into education and I don’t see that changing. Parts of the world see school shootings happem, a more obvious problem than lack of software freedom, but do not think that’s bad enough to change. Having children right now may be unfortunate.
I’ve already distanced myself by deleted most (big-tech) social media platforms. Currently trying to ditch Discord but I don’t see friends do the same. Stopping now may look like a good idea but the ick would remain.
When things really matter all we have is words or violence. I have no choice but to hope that good ideas win in the end, and that the world improves over time. Just be the best you can.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 1 day ago:
I was shocked it listed LMDE but it’s a very old version (Linux Mint Debian Edition 2).
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 1 day ago:
It’s an optional field in the userdb JSON object. It’s not a policy engine, not an API for apps. We just define the field, so that it’s standardized iff people want to store the date there, but it’s entirely optional.
“I’m not picking a side” and “this future proofs standardization” is of little comfort. This is seriously suspect and now I have to look for alternatives to SystemD(odgetheissue).
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 1 day ago:
No they’re the same in this context.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 1 day ago:
What else can those those value privacy and have computer skills do but try to be a good example and offer to help to those around them without the know-how?
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 days ago:
If what posts are constructive is determined by votes and bots are the majority… 😬
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 days ago:
Poisoning the well.
Companies make money using open source code and ignore the licenses which compel them to release their source code (out of ignorance, laziness and selfish gains). While AI generated cannot be copyrighted then you cannot apply copyleft licenses to that code. Telling human authored code from AI slop may be less than 100% obvious to tell, which could may make it more difficult to enforce copyleft compliance in a lawsuit.
- Comment on The UK doesn't want to force you to have a digital ID — but a 'trust me bro' approach won't make the cut 2 days ago:
I’ve said aught for so long I was questioning if this an elaborate prank that somehow changed my search results. Damn.
- Comment on The UK doesn't want to force you to have a digital ID — but a 'trust me bro' approach won't make the cut 3 days ago:
I don’t want help “proving who I am online”. I want to pay in hard cash online - or use GNU Taler which is private to the buyer but not the seller (for TAX reasons).
“Show me your papers” aught to be so anti-British that any goverment officals promoting IDs are leaning over the line of being traitors.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 4 days ago:
Linux phone, landline, or tin can and string.
- Comment on Did we win? 4 days ago:
Software freedom or demise. While Google is capable of imposing anything then Android is already dead to me.
- Comment on China approves launch of world first brain-computer interface device 1 week ago:
I can’t wait for people to have proprietary software running on their wifi brain implant
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
“I didn’t do anything wrong”, says man who doesn’t understand the concept of consent or ownership.
- Comment on TrueNAS build system going closed source 2 weeks ago:
Are they lying about secure boot being a reason or can I go back to thinking SB is part of Microsoft’s EEE attack on Linux?
- Comment on NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel 2 weeks ago:
I mean if it’s 2nd hand… and the free (libre) drivers are good… and AMD hasn’t gone full Intel… maybe??
- Comment on U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material 3 weeks ago:
I’m not an artist, I just write silly game systems. I took for granted that a handwritting machine was an easy assumption. I doubt AI companies even have the insentive to try and create physical handwriting/sketching but I see no reason to believe it’s impossible.
Here appears to be a handwriting printer “holding” a pen. People can probably tell this was not human written but I just imagine a machine that can replicate human hand motion better - like a robot hand on a robot arm.
- Comment on U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material 3 weeks ago:
If the training data for “drafts” and “hand written notes” exists then one can train an AI on it, and generate it the same way. Do some artists share such things?
- Comment on U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material 3 weeks ago:
Instead of considering if the whole work is now copyrightable, consider parts of the work made by generative AI are not and the human parts are (if they reach the minimum line of creativity). Sure there’s other helpful tools that do some of the work but unless they’re substituting the creativity then they need not apply.
- Comment on U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material 3 weeks ago:
Seems impossible to me but I’m not an artist - I write code as a hobby and see no way to definitively prove I wrote any code that an AI could also produce. Is there any aspect of art creation that an AI cannot replicate?
- Comment on Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash 3 weeks ago:
It’s where people are, sadly.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 3 weeks ago:
Probably not if it depends on Google Pain Services?
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 3 weeks ago:
If you post hard enough you can get a company to sue you out of desperation.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 3 weeks ago:
Please do not, that’s disgusting, thank you.
- Comment on Attorney General James Sues Game Developer for Promoting Illegal Gambling Through Video Games 3 weeks ago:
Even without the chance to earn real money the spirit of gambling still remains. Does buying trading cards (hoping to get one’s desired pocket monster) look good on reflection? Companies “creating” value aribtrarily.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 4 weeks ago:
Who decides what SecureBoot considers trustworthy? If SecureBoot is controlled by someone else then it can be used against the user. The aversion to SecureBoot is justified.
- Comment on Youtube frontend, Grayjay is coming to Steam 4 weeks ago:
My understanding is the issue on calling it open source was a sincere difference of word usage (can see the source code) and going forward they would use a different term for their licence intention (can see the code but must pay the copyright holder if you make money off forking/using it).
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 4 weeks ago:
I’m a software freedom enjoyer so I don’t have most of those types of apps already (only Discord… which I hope friends ditch soon).
When I looked into installing a new OS it I needed some program or use Android Studio which had it. However, the AS binary demanded I agree to an EULA beyond the “open source” license I was expecting. Whatever I needed it couldn’t find an up to date method of compling it myself.
(Fairphone 5)
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 4 weeks ago:
Right to repair my F-35!