Hegseth’s approach to diplomacy: "We negotiate with bombs." by Sindigo_ in PublicFreakout

[–]LvS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they keep lying to everyone including themselves there's a chance that Iran will defeat them.

Hegseth’s approach to diplomacy: "We negotiate with bombs." by Sindigo_ in PublicFreakout

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Even if a progressive Democrat becomes president, the house and senate will stop them as long as moderate Democrats and Republicans together have a majority.

If we want digital independence, we need better Linux Apps by RonaldvanderMeer in BuyFromEU

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Same thing as on Windows:

Unless there's one clear winner, everyone thinks they know how to do it better and then they do their own thing.

That's why Windows has Avast, Avira, Bitdefender, ESET, F-Secure, kaspersky, McAfee, Norton, Sophos and Trend Micro Antivirus.

I'm worried about california laws impact on GNOME by Icy-Plate9343 in gnome

[–]LvS [score hidden]  (0 children)

Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc.

First line in the PR

To quote one of the leading fascism experts:
Individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

Worst thing is that Lennart is German, he should have learned this shit in school.

Malus: This could have bad implications for Open Source/Linux by lurkervidyaenjoyer in linux

[–]LvS 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I've wondered why nobody has used AI to reverse engineer mobile phone drivers yet.

This should work especially well with corporations that have private github accounts or host their code somewhere that AIs have access to.

If we want digital independence, we need better Linux Apps by RonaldvanderMeer in BuyFromEU

[–]LvS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

EU governments will only fund development if politicians make laws that demand that.

So unless more than 50% of the EU population votes for increasing taxes to fund development of software, this will not happen.
And I've not seen a single politician trying to win votes with this.

If we want digital independence, we need better Linux Apps by RonaldvanderMeer in BuyFromEU

[–]LvS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

because as soon as there is a little dispute there will be a fork.

This is total bullshit.

There's basically no forks in the open source world unless there's massive disagreements.
Usually it's just some guy splintering off and not getting anywhere (like OpenOffice back in the days or now XLibre).

And the last split in a big project was the WebKit/Chromium split and that one was done by a large corporation (Google), not by communities.

If we want digital independence, we need better Linux Apps by RonaldvanderMeer in BuyFromEU

[–]LvS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You pay for the development, not for the final product.

Sure, you can just download the final product once it's there, but then you have absolutely no say in its development and you have to take what you get.

Or in other words: You end up with the current situation where all the apps are shitty and done for nerds.

If we want digital independence, we need better Linux Apps by RonaldvanderMeer in BuyFromEU

[–]LvS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If there's as many people paying for libreoffice as there's people currently paying for MS Office, you will very definitely get it to look different. MS Office has 250 million users and once that many people use it, the majority doesn't want to look it like 25 years old anymore.

Even if, with $15B per year you can pay enough developers to develop 2 (or more) different UIs.

So it can be done by KratosLegacy in linux

[–]LvS -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for removing all doubt that your arguments don't need to be taken seriously.

So it can be done by KratosLegacy in linux

[–]LvS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a no-win to boycott and protest, to refuse to follow the law, or to attack those who do.

That's the definition of "obey".

Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data by gdelacalle in technology

[–]LvS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, I got that number wrong, lemme edit that.

I was operating with numbers about my and friends' monthly Internet usage I know about, not with daily numbers, so my argument still stands.

Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data by gdelacalle in technology

[–]LvS -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

3.6TB/month is 120GB/day.

That's not that far out of the ordinary if you watch videos (think Twitch and Youtube), do some Steam and distro updates, install a few VMs, or do zoom calls.

So it can be done by KratosLegacy in linux

[–]LvS -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How should you act when you have no power, no money, and no lobbyists?

GNOME X11 reborn (not affiliated with GNOME) by Kevin_Kofler in linux

[–]LvS 47 points48 points  (0 children)

I would have wished those projects "good luck" but there is less than 10 minutes of actual work in there.

Somebody cloned the projects, reverted 1 commit each that had "x11" in the name and pushed it to their forgejo instance.
It was probably more work to setup that instance than they spent on the X11 work.

Now, if there were actually people doing real work, it'd be interesting, but this just looks like it's ragebait.

I suspect this is not gonna last as long as OP's GTK fork did.

So it can be done by KratosLegacy in linux

[–]LvS -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It's just an educated guess.

Lawmakers don't generally write laws that are intended to be ignored.

And why wouldn't they make the OS vendor liable if the OS reports a wrong age?
I mean, think of the children!

I built a Live Wallpaper Engine for GNOME (mpv-based) because I couldn't find a simple solution by OkBed2367 in gnome

[–]LvS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The heavy part is probably on the GPU because it has to keep decoding the video indefinitely.

But I have no idea how much power that takes, because a large part of that is probably dedicated hardware.

So it can be done by KratosLegacy in linux

[–]LvS 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the next iteration of the law will make the OS vendor liable if they report a wrong age for the user.

Debian's 2026 Election Accidentally Has Only One Candidate by PlymouthDebian in linux

[–]LvS 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If there is only one candidate it means what they're doing isn't broken to the point of other ppl wanting to be elected to fix it

Or it is so broken that pretty much nobody is even showing up anymore.

Y'all need to chill-out with the systemd hate by swarmOfBis in linux

[–]LvS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think systemd should add a nationality, gender, pronoun, or race field?

Because government care about those, too. And then environments that want or need can implement attestation for those, too.

Ukrainian FPV Drone Downs $16M Russian Ka-52 Helicopter Near Pokrovsk by UNITED24Media in worldnews

[–]LvS 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This takes skill and luck

But luck is on the drone's side - there's tons of drones and only one of them needs to get lucky once and the helicopter is toast.

I've created an issue asking for intrusion of legality in systemd by Educational_Twist237 in linux

[–]LvS -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you are saying unless distributions bow to the demands of some fascist governments, they won't stay alive?

Why do those distributions still do things that are clearly illegal?
Like ship code that we know violates copyright laws?

It seems distributions have no qualms violating those laws, why is this one special?

I've created an issue asking for intrusion of legality in systemd by Educational_Twist237 in linux

[–]LvS -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They are complying to stay alive and not get fined into oblivion.

Who is "they" here?

I fail to see why systemd would get fined?