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- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
You can choose to not install applications that use birthDate. It’s your system.
But, you cannot choose what other people want to install. It’s their system.
There are applications which exist, that other people can choose to install, that require this field and systemd is the logical place to store that information.
If you don’t like the applications that would use this field, and you don’t want your system to store information in birthDate then there is absolutely nothing stopping you from doing that. You don’t get to make that choice for other people, however.
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
Then, tell me, why bother adding this in the first place, exactly at the time governments are looking toward full control of everybody’s computers? If it’s that innocent and useless, either someone really likes throwing shit up, or it won’t stop there.
It’s there because systemd is the place that makes the most sense to store that kind of data.
Systemd stores user details.
This is a user detail.
So, storing it in systemd makes the most sense.
The alternative is having every individual program try to store data about the user in their own, non-interoperatble formats. That’s a needless complication when systemd already stores user details
This field will not affect you unless you choose to let it. You get to pick what software is installed on your system. Unless you choose to use an application that validates your birthdate, the field does absolutely nothing.
For people who want to use birth date (say, maybe people with multiple kids) it makes way more sense to store that detail about the user along with every other detail about the user that’s stored on the system.
- Comment on indeed 2 weeks ago:
Nice in the streets, perverted in the sheets
… or something like that, I’m not a poet
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
The USA and especially specific states shouldn’t have this much pull especially over open source community driven projects in my opinion.
I completely agree.
I hope we see a bigger push for FOSS software in the EU as they try to reduce their dependency on US tech companies. If more countries treat software like we treat science where everyone contributes and everyone benefits then we’ll all be better off.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
You control what you install on your pc and I’d be willing to bet that whatever open source OS it is, probably uses Systemd.
They have set this up in a way that yes, right now at 11:21pm UTC on March 24th it isn’t being enforced or required.
It is using systemd, yes. It could be using openRC, sysvinit, runit, etc just as easily.
Systemd isn’t a requirement for Linux. It is simply the most useful init system currently. If that ever stops being the case then changing init systems or entire even distros is a fairly trivial task. If systemd were ever to require me to submit to a 3rd party verification of my age I’d just use a different init system.
There is nothing that any open source project can do that would force me to keep using their software if I don’t want to.
They shouldn’t have done this. In mine, and many, many other peoples opinions as well.
If your opinion represents a large group of people then you should have no trouble maintaining a fork.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
What is there to evolve? Just keep it up to date with the mainstream project while applying this one patch. This is as useful as the signatures that prohibit use of comments to train LLMs.
That sounds super easy on paper. In practice nobody is going to do this long-term.
The kind of people who get massively upset about this are not the kind of people that are going to make a long term commitment to actually doing anything. Forking systemd is performative activism, that’s it.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
As far as I can tell the Name Email and location are all voluntarily provided by the user.
So is birthDate.
This is something that will be used whether you want it to or not (that makes it invasive) because of the laws around it (of course depending on where you are).
How? First and most importantly, systemd doesn’t do anything to enforce, require or verify the field.
Second, I control what is installed on my PC, that’s the ENTIRE POINT of using a FOSS OS. The FREEDOM to install whatever I want, or not. If there is an application that is using that field to enforce some bs law, then I simply won’t install it.
This isn’t Windows, there isn’t a Microsoft to force you to install software updates that you don’t want. You’re FREE to not install software that does things that you don’t like. This includes any hypothetical future software that would require this field or validate this field.
- Comment on Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data 2 weeks ago:
I swear we’re in a post-reality reality.
- Comment on Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data 2 weeks ago:
I swear nobody has read The Lord of the Rings…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Another option is that instead of trying the bare metal install, get docker working: gist.github.com/…/d93549d85acbee94f37683fa6cbd626…
Then you can just use the pihole container.
- Comment on ‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’ 3 weeks ago:
You’re welcome!
One of the things that is almost universally true of FOSS software is that the documentation is usually really good. In addition to the talented developers there are a lot of talent technical writers who donate their time to maintaining wikis and documentation.
The man (manual) pages are also really useful (type ‘man ls’ or ‘man systemctl’) and most projects include man pages for their man commands. man systemctl:
Another helpful tool to install is tldr. Instead of showing you the manual, it’ll show you a page which includes a brief list of the most common use cases for that command and explainations.
tldr systemctl:
Don’t feel like you need to read these things like a novel, just know that they’re there so when you have a problem or want to try to customize your system in some way you will have a source to turn to.
Also, since you’re really new you’re likely to stumble into vim and get trapped. It’s a text editor with a unique way of interacting with the text due to it being a terminal application. This style of input is often mirrored in other things. man pages use vim-like keybindings, for example. Once again, Fireship: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-txKSRn0qeA
Learning vim completely is it’s own project, but at least be familiar enough with it that you can open a document, navigate around, make changes and save/close the document. There’s tons of videos on the topic (and cheatsheets for the more advanced vim motions, just do an image search).
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 3 weeks ago:
It makes games run worse and look horrible because devs now target dlss performance mode for 60fps on medium hardware.
That’s like saying new graphics cards make a game run worse because developers make their games targeted at new hardware.
You’re conflating two issues. DLSS uses upscaling to improve framerate the the cost of image quality.
The decision of developers is a completely different issue.
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 3 weeks ago:
DLSS takes sane people and turns them crazy.
- Comment on Superconductors that operate at room temperature and no electricity loss? Harvard team of physicists map samples at millionths of a meter to correlate behavior with temp, pressure, stoichiometry, etc. 3 weeks ago:
I look forward to the next LK-99
- Comment on IYKYK 3 weeks ago:
I tried
MS PaintKolourPaint, as is tradition, but removing the background without layers was too much effort - Comment on IYKYK 3 weeks ago:
AI can probably do better than my budget-tier GIMP skills, but here ya go
- Comment on French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure 3 weeks ago:
It is simple, it is not easy.
‘Take a picture of the entire ocean and look for ships’ is simple, but executing that plan is not.
It requires hundreds of millions of dollars of reconnaissance satellites, and an entire branch of personnel to operate and digest the information.
This is why the US operates carrier battle groups instead of just sailing their carriers everywhere with a small escort. They can’t hide, but they can pack enough offensive and defensive power into a tiny area to make most attacks infeasible.
Anyways, there’s a reason submarines exist
True, and even they’re vulnerable when they surface (if they’re moving), the v-shaped wake is also very detectable from space where satellites can detect wave heights within 3cm. It’s not easy for humans to find, but with billions of dollars to spend on computers, these kinds of things are very much within the reach of sovereign nations.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 3 weeks ago:
The delay is almost assuredly to prevent live scamming. Like a grandparent picking up a random call or text and being tricked into thinking they’re a family member/bank worker/etc.
I’ll admit it’s annoying, and could be used by Google later to do more annoying shit.
Taking their explanations in good faith and looking at it from an customer security point of view, I can see this cutting back on some common scam types. This is kind of like how, when you go to rustdesk.com there’s a giant ‘YOU’RE PROBABLY GETTING SCAMMED’ banner across the top of the page:
These little steps can seems pointless or annoying to us, as most of us are probably in the upper range of tech skills, but consider the average user and it starts to make a lot more sense.
- Comment on IYKYK 3 weeks ago:
He can’t keep getting away with this
- Comment on French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure 3 weeks ago:
False positives are fine, you assign 1, 10, 50, 100 analysts to review hits. You only need to find it once, then the search area becomes incredibly small for each subsequent satellite pass.
I’m not saying that it is easy, just that you don’t need to have a surface ship within 15 nm in order to see it.
- Comment on French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure 3 weeks ago:
While the resolution could be good, have fun looking for that spec.
Seems like an easy but tedious job. Something that a computer can do.
Object detection algorithms are incredibly fast and can learn to tell the difference between an aircraft carrier and an ocean.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 3 weeks ago:
Yes, how stupid of me for not explicitly explaining the context that everyone with basic reading comprehension can understand.
I’ll add the obvious context for everyone else who is new to the world and has issues parsing regular English sentences:
- The link and description of the post is the part at the top of the page.
- If you click the Title link it will take you to a web page (a collection of HTML documents and javascript) which contains a story.
- The story in the OP is about installing unverified apps.
- Unverified apps are installed directly from apks and not from the Play Store
- Scams often target elderly people with text messages or phone calls.
- Part of these scams involves getting access to the victim’s devices so that the scammer can leverage that access to obtain bank information and account control.
- Creating a system which prevents a scam victim from easily installing unverified apps will mitigate this attack vector.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 3 weeks ago:
I can understand this workflow being created to protect the legions of people who are tricked into installing spyware.
It doesn’t remotely affect me because I use GrapheneOS and if this is an issue for you then you’re probably someone who should look at installing GOS or Lineage.
I don’t think Google should be able to do this and it is likely part of a longer-term strategy to strangle any competition. At the same time, I can understand how this change will save a lot of grandparents from clicking a link in a text from their ‘grandchildren’ and installing spyware that’ll steal all of their bank information.
- Comment on Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers 3 weeks ago:
emotional contagion
If that doesn’t sum up all of social media for the past decade, I can’t think of a better term.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 3 weeks ago:
I’m here to engage with reality, and not create science fiction scenarios to worry about.
- Comment on Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll 3 weeks ago:
Psh, I use GOS without Storage Scopes. I simply only take flattering photographs of my Adonis-like form (they’re swiping left anyway, smh)
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 3 weeks ago:
Industrial sites are dangerous and that’s why workers receive safety training and equipment.
These are not intended to interact with the public, they’re intended to replace manned security patrol routes. They’re protected from being a danger to the public by chain link fences and locked doors. The workers who operate them and work around them receive safety training.
In addition to the tens of thousands of dollars of proximity sensors, there’s also a giant red button on their back which shuts them down immediately:
Having robots lets the human workers not go into dangerous situations unnecessarily. Having to patrol inside of an area where halon fire suppression systems are used is inherently dangerous and is more of a common occurrence than having a random untrained and unescorted member of the public enter into a secure area and trip.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 3 weeks ago:
Surprisingly no, and they also don’t have mortars or death ray eyes.
But, you wouldn’t know that reading some of the comments here.
