What are we supposed to do though. We can’t stay bottled up forever. And they don’t give us vaccines anymore (only 70+ and risk groups here). I’d take it if I could.

I would but I’ve always been opposed to systemd anyway.

But for me it’s a slippery slope I don’t think we should even get on.

No Linux as such was not, by the time Linux got popular the big multiuser systems were on their way out. I still worked on those in college. But they were SGI, HP-UX and Sequent. Especially the latter were huge systems.

But these fields were just a clone of what was in the original Unix systems.

It has very nearly got a majority several times. I’m sure that with some media manipulation (eg milking an incident) it will be easily pushed through.

Imagine if the Dutroux scandal would happen now. They’d jump on that to push all kinds of monitoring on everyone. Even though this would not be prevented by it in any way (and in fact that all happened long before WhatsApp even existed)

Personally I think that win (while really a win) is being overcelebrated.

It’s easily reverted. All they’ll have to do is find some csam or terrorism related scandal in the news and pump it as a big deal, and all the resistance will be gone at the next vote.

The problem is that Poettering is all in on attestation which is the underpinnings of age verification and remote attestation.

See amutable.com

My OS should have no details on me besides the account name which didn’t necessarily correspond to my real name.

It does have some old fields for location etc but those stem from the times of massive multi user systems.

Also, they will use it as a means to lock content they don’t want. Like in some jurisdictions it’s already forbidden to share any kind of LGBTQ information even medical with minors… Even in EU, like Hungary. Clearly this age verification will be used for this too. And people not willing to age verify will be locked out too.

It’s part of their campaign of forcing conservative ‘values’ onto everyone.

In Europe too, chatcontrol keeps being pushed no matter how often it’s being struck down.

Depends on your distribution obviously. They don’t all have the same naming. It sounds like a Debian derivative here of course but there’s still many of those.

But it’s normally a meta package with a huge amount of packages, you’ll have to list them individually unless your distro has a meta package with a specific minimum install or something.

But anyway look in the package catalog for your distro, it should be in there.

And WeaponG’s solution is really great if there isn’t a minimal package.

What do they mean reauthenticate after 24h? I can’t authenticate as I don’t have a Google account. Although I do unfortunately have Google play installed, my phones can’t have it removed.

Torrents, you can’t peer with other people behind NAT.

Interesting. I’d actually pay for an in browser VPN, it’s handy to be able to switch countries on the fly. Ideally even per browser tab.

I would not however pay for Mozilla’s mullvad thing. I don’t like mullvad since they dropped port forwarding and OpenVPN. I use proton now for that. But in the browser is a different usecase for me.

It’s just weird that it’s not possible to pay for this but only for the thing I don’t want.

True though I block all the cookies anyway so accepting it doesn’t actually do anything :)

It feels like we need a new internet yes. With all the enshittification, commercialisation, surveillance by governments and industry, age verification etc, the old internet is ruined.

Maybe something like the dark web but more mainstream and less creepy.

Microsoft don’t care about file shares anymore anyway, they want you to sign up for OneDrive :(

Microsoft also make the one app that actually shines in electron: vs code. It’s really quite optimised. But somehow they didn’t bother learning lessons from that and keep rolling out terrible slop like teams and new outlook.

It’s weird how one company can do things right and also be do incompetent at the same time.

Probably but Jira makes it so hard.

For example if I type 1h 33m it’s ok but 1h33m is not. It’s just a really awkward UI.

We don’t do any of those things. We’re not even developers. We just use Jira to log hours (which is basically one big fantasy obviously)

Nothing. I really hate the agile thing anyway.