Santosh83

You can't spy on kids without spying on everyone, and in any case they're interested in the everyone part. Ultimately they want 24x7, realtime facial & biometric monitoring of everyone using any "approved" device, and be sure that only approved devices will be able to join networks and do stuff upon them, so for those brave nerds thinking they can survive on GhostBSD from their basement, yes you can, but as Gandalf said, you can only fence yourself in, but not fence the world out. Sooner or later they'll come for everyone.

1. Continue tracking me 2. Pause for 1800 seconds

Wonderful. Allow an "unmonitored" extension from a random stranger on the Internet have access to "all data for all websites" just to support an image format for which Mozilla should have long built in native support...

So when will support come to libavif, libaom, aom-tools and concerned packages? Are they pushed on to Arch already? Or still just upstream github for now?

The GnuPG upstream has denounced the IETF-driven OpenPGP standardization process and has subsequently been removed from other major package management software such as apt and rpm over the last three years. Compatibility with other OpenPGP implementations is no longer guaranteed...

What?? First time I'm hearing of this schism. I wish the FOSS community had less disagreements all over the place.

Why always POSIX compliant? If its going to be a learning exercise or a hobby OS or just an exploration, why not throw POSIX out the window and start from scratch for designing the API?

He's mainly talking about environmental & social consequences now and in the future. He personally is beyond reach of such consequences given his seniority and age, so this speculative tangent is detracting from his main point, to put it charitably.

They do have a reference implementation: weston and libweston but as far as I know, third parties don't use. They implement all their own functionality. Weston is confined more as a prototype.

The only Hard requirements are a CPU with SSE 4.2 and POPCNT. Win11 will simply not install on older CPUs. The rest of the requirements can be bypassed but Microsoft will block you from the annual major feature upgrades. You will have to do those manually too. They also claim that your stability and performance on pre-8th Gen CPUs will be degraded and they will give no support, but in reality it runs just fine. Win11 is sluggish on all CPUs anyway.

When will humans evolve to be less aggressive before we devolve into catastrophic collapse?

Yeah IT pros and tech aware "power" users can always take these measures but the very availability of poor or maliciously coded extensions and apps in popular app stores makes it a problem considering normies will get swayed by the swanky features the software promises and will click past all misgivings and warnings. Social engineering attacks are impossible to prevent using technical means alone. Either a critical mass of ordinary people need to become more safety/privacy conscious or general purpose computing devices will become more & more niche as the very industry which creates these problems in the first place by poor review will also sell the solution of universal thin-clients and locked down devices, of course with the very happy cooperation of govts everywhere.

Visiting this site with a freshly installed, stock Tor browser (therefore with JS enabled, no settings changed from defaults) on Debian stable gives me:

"Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking."

"Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 301.9 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 8.24 bits of identifying information."

Interestingly, increasing the Tor Browser Security level from Safe to Safer actually increased the bits of identifying information and reduced the anonymity:

"Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 832.32 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 9.7 bits of identifying information."

And at the Safest Security level (i.e. with JS diabled) the identifying bits and anonymization appear to be at their best:

"Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 261.41 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 8.03 bits of identifying information."

What we need is VPB. Virtual Private Browser like VPNs. Essentially standardised cloud browsers that can execute your requests and send you back the result as bitmap buffers.

For Rust I'd expect the implementation to be the real beast, versus the language itself. But not sure how it compares to C++ implementation complexity.

How is withholding Widevine CDM not anti-competitive behaviour?

Yes most web properties have voluntarily adopted Cf as their only protection option. Do you or I have the power to get hundreds of millions if not billions of these properties off of Cf? No, so yes they're a reality of the Web at this point, sadly. They can be no more avoided than say the tier 1 ISPs.

This used to be the case many years ago. But these days practically every site pulls in content from several other sites, sometimes dozens. Fine tuning noscript to get such a site to work without obscure breakage will take a long time of trial & error, reloading again & again. Now consider that you've to do this for every one of your regular sites.

Noscript is just too painful for people who want to just browse the web. Its the gentoo of browser extensions. People with massive time & patience can do it yes, but the rest of us are best served by uBlock & standard browser protections.

Arch isn't truly community driven?

Snaps per se are no better or worse than flatpak. Canonical's mistake, IMO, was to make their store the only place snaps can be hosted. That is the "proprietary" bit everyone keeps talking about.

But in practice even for flatpak the only realistic place you can publish your flatpak if you want any traction at all would be flathub, so both formats have only one store right now. But flatpak allows a custom store while for some strange reason Canonical decided not to allow snap that freedom.

As I understand it, snap the package format is not proprietary. Its as open source as say flatpak. What is proprietary is Canonical official snap store, and they patch their version of snap to only use that store. It'd be the same as flatpak being tied to only flathub.

Of course that goes against the spirit of FOSS, but there's a bit more nuance there than simply saying "snaps are proprietary".

He was also a minor when the convicted offences took place. Important point because Lunduke acolytes always go everywhere & make it sound as if he was a grown man who molested children "thousands of times". Apparently what is closer to the facts is that he was himself a minor when he started SA his siblings, which was ignored by their parents. He was convicted later in life as an adult & as noted, served his time.

I think you may have got it backwards? Technology seems to be greatly facilitating fascist control rather than weakening them...

Don't you think he doesn't know that? Pro-tip for you: when someone mentions the pain of losing their companion, do not give them pro-tips.

Read somewhere that it is relatively easy to adapt NetBSD's drivers into a custom kernel... maybe Serenity folks can go that way? Device drivers are huge obstacle for any fledgling OS.

Whether it is commercial or open source the solution has always been to explain to the user and ask informed consent. No one is so busy or so stupid that they cannot read a small para of text (possibly linking to a detailed document if they're so interested) and press one of two/three choices at some point during system setup or usage. Of course these permission prompts tend to grow out of hand as we can see from commercial operating systems but this is something Linux distributions can do better since nearly all software just want usage data and not user data like their commercial counterparts do.

Nothing elusive. The reason is major vendors are not cooperating for even a common baseline standard. Its not impossible. They do it with Whatwg, but when it comes to native apps everyone and his dog head off in their own NIH incompatible direction. Just goes to show that social & economic problems are harder than flying cars and the singularity.

What's the potential to weaponize such advances, say by creating novel prions and so on? I assume powers that be are already playing with the tech hidden away in their bunkers?

Fedora immutable distros are image based, so yes, the base system is a pre-made unit, over which you can layer minor packages but not something as extensive as an alternative DE. Hence so many spins, as well as separate versions for stuff like Nvidia cards, Asus machines and so on.

What's the catch?

Bazzite's sibling Bluefin is specifically meant for developers (the bluefin-dx image) and standard daily driver. Bazzite is targeted more towards gaming and Steam handheld although you can use it as a desktop too.

https://projectbluefin.io/