cmnybo
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- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 days ago:
That’s what MidnightBSD did.
California residents are not authorized to use MidnightBSD for desktop use in the state of California effective January 1, 2027. California law CA AB1043 requires a complex age verification system implemented for operating systems with no exceptions for small open source projects. At this time, we don’t have development time or a plan in place for this.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 days ago:
The photo ID requirements are what will come next.
- Comment on AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack 5 days ago:
Any password manager worth using will generate secure passwords. There is absolutely no reason to use AI for that.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 5 days ago:
Backblaze personal doesn’t support Linux or BSD, so it would be useless for a NAS.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 6 days ago:
Normal blurays are easy to rip. The 4k ones need a drive with hacked firmware.
- Comment on FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me 1 week ago:
Letting AI code a kernel module is a terrible idea. A bad kernel module can easily crash the system and can create all kinds of security vulnerabilities.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 1 week ago:
Phones, tablets & computers have it too.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 1 week ago:
It keeps someone from booting code that hasn’t been signed with my key. That’s the whole point of secure boot. If someone else has the key, then it’s not secure anymore.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 1 week ago:
Secureboot is worthless if the Microsoft keys are still enabled. It should only allow code that you sign yourself to boot.
- Comment on Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movies 1 week ago:
It’s for archival of data that needs to be stored for thousands of years, not for consumer use.
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The AI bubble can’t burst soon enough.
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 1 week ago:
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 week ago:
From what I’ve heard, google free android versions won’t be effected.
- Comment on Global YouTube outage sees video platform homepage go dark 2 weeks ago:
Search still works and I can view the videos & channels I’ve bookmarked.
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 2 weeks ago:
If they are based out of China, then Amazon won’t get a single cent out of them. They will be back up with a new name and website soon.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 2 weeks ago:
Around 25% for a 1080p 30fps youtube video played in MPV. Power consumption is about 10-12 watts. A video with hardware acceleration uses about 8 watts.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 2 weeks ago:
Software decoding is an option. My Thinkpad T480 can play 1080p AV1 if the bitrate isn’t super high. That’s a mid range business laptop from 2018. It’s the encoding that really needs hardware acceleration.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t help with all the content that’s been encoded in H.264 over the last two decades though.
- Comment on Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec 2 weeks ago:
Hosting and development would just move to a country that doesn’t allow software patents.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 2 weeks ago:
In Linux, the package manager will ask you if you want to install the dependencies. You don’t have to install them manually unless you’re compiling the program from source.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 2 weeks ago:
Charge time depends on the UPS. The cheap consumer grade ones usually have a float charger that takes forever.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 2 weeks ago:
Nickel iron is typically used for off grid solar energy storage. Weight doesn’t matter at all since the battery won’t be moved. The most important thing is lifetime. Traditional nickel iron batteries last for decades and can be refurbished.
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 2 weeks ago:
UPS batteries need to be fully charged all the time. Lead acid batteries like to be fully charged. Lithium batteries need to be stored around 50% charge to have a long lifetime.
- Comment on Can my SPARC server host a website? 2 weeks ago:
It would work fine without Cloudflare. The server is running the current version of OpenBSD, so it could be configured to safely host a website without any tunnels.
- Comment on Why is self-hosted voice chat so hard? 2 weeks ago:
Mumble will do all of that except screen sharing. Only the server has to deal with NAT.
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 3 weeks ago:
Cameras and DVRs should always be on an isolated network.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 3 weeks ago:
That worked when TV was analog and they were running megawatt transmitters. It doesn’t do so well with the low power digital stations unless you are close to the transmitters.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 3 weeks ago:
Printer drivers have been deprecated on Linux too. CUPS will eventually drop support for them.
- Comment on More Mac malware from Google search 3 weeks ago:
Wow, grabbing a base64 obfuscated URL with curl sending the output to bash is a huge red flag. I guess Mac users must not know anything about the CLI.
Never pipe the output of curl or wget to bash. You can’t inspect whatever it downloads before it gets run. If the URL is obfuscated, there is basically a 100% chance that it’s malicious.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 3 weeks ago:
There’s Mumble for voice, text and images. The server is self hosted and there is no chat history so it’s private. It uses Opus so the audio quality is very good without using a lot of bandwidth. For gaming, it supports positional audio and a HUD that shows who is talking.
For the projects using Discord for support, they should move to a forum.