Reminder that text does not convey sarcasm. In this world where it’s so wasy to cobble up a lie and spread it, it’s important to denote properly what stuff is intended to be a joke, eg.: use the </sarcasm> or /s tag.

Partly it’s more of “destroy an ecosystem”. Among languages, Rust is at the frontlines of a continuing trend to remove GPL-licensed, community toolkits and put corporate-friendly, AI-friendly toolkits in their place, eg.: replacing grep with openaigrep, which would basically be step 2 in the process of privatizing or corporatizing the Linux ecosystem (and leads to the loss of a number of user freedoms).

New strat for migrating unattended laptops at the office just showed up!

That still exists? 👀

Thor’s voice: “All money is made-up”

You could, in the meantime, simply not upgrade to the version that uses AI.

Since, from what I’m seeing around, people are having issues looking for an alternative.

Oh, time to issue one of those Easily Ignorable Arrest Orders, right?

This statement is so banger for 2026 that I’m asking for permission to quote it.

Proton is in the bad, or at least in the wrong, for keeping PII about a client to identify via payment option (and did extra wrong by not securing it enough). Honestly, this could all have been avoided if Proton offered a one-time payment service, like SDF does, so that once the payment is received the connecting information can be deleted or expired (or even better: never collected). But a rent-seeking grift model such as subscriptions likely precludes this capability.

Half of internet drops dead when developer of npm package age_pad makes a typo

Which gives away the whole birthday because applications requesting the age bracket can memorize values and notice what day they change.

It’s not even requiring a date, just a number of years.

Several posts in the mailing list thread specifically mention adding Y, M, D fields for DOB.

On the other hand, it’s one of the least intrusive proposals I’ve heard in this round of debate.

It matters not, it’s still intrusive, and it’s the foot-in-the-door to demand more.

If you let a nazi peek into your bar and stay, it’s a nazi bar.

Canonical: “let’s make age verification a DBUS requirement!”

Omg, how can they suck so much! Next time I open that thread, I’m gonna surely find a proposal for systemd-ageverificationd!

I think the obvious problem that those mailing list proposals are missing is that even implementing the minutest part of this law is little more than a “foot in the door” thing. Once the law is passed and a compliant vendor publishes, that sets jurisprudence so that Christofascists can update the law strengthening the requirements, such as adding a user photo (which IIRC account service already supports via $HOME/.face!), LGBTQ+ status, National ID Document, etc.

The correct option in Linuxland is simply to WONTFIX, and if any California and Colorado corporate users whine about it, well, that’s what they voted for. Wanna fix it? Kick your bad leaders out of office.

My message to Ubuntu and all Linux distros is simple:

DON’T OBEY FASCISM IN ADVANCE!

Sending thlose lunatics to Mars costs resources we don’t have and cause pollution. IMO, running them through with a machinegun is easier.

My ulcer’s stroke had an aneurysm when I read this.

Any decent native client (Pidgin, Conversations, Gajim, etc) will cover most of the important stuff, so it might be worth checking who among those might be willing (+ people contributing) to track development after Movim.

Hmmm this would have sounded interesting if it didn’t require releasing new phones. I don’t think Motorola is going to release their next phone within a $200-$300 price range. As it stands, this is marginally better than yet another “ponzi your VS funding on the privacy community” scheme.

What would be useful, if they now have a partnership going, would be to convince Motorola to release the relock keys / firmware fixes for the bootloaders of some models that are no longer in production but are affordable and useful in the secondhand market. In particular, models that see good support from eg.: Lineage. Much easier to start a road towards better privacy and freer systems if it’s feasible on hardware you already have, after all.

Making big companies pony up is always good.

Could you build an interface on top of it to look exactly like discord with all of it’s functions?

In theory yes, and Movim is movim’ in that direction (yeah I invented that pun, blame me). That’s part of the trick with XMPP, it’s quite extensible.