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7·9 days agoI mean, whoever knows…
The article says:
requiring the protection to be added to all phones and tablets sold in the UK
As long as it isn’t sold preinstalled in the UK (and: specifically on phones and tablets! What is even the definition of a tablet, is a convertible laptop a tablet…), it might or might not remain legal to distribute custom ROMs there?
Pretty sure that compared to NetBSD, Linux still runs on relatively few architectures. 😝
I do use it, but you are quite right I don’t tend to mention it unless asked.
Probably just ask it for the seahorse emoji or something idk
3·23 days agoYes. If vendors in those states want to then preinstall Linux on a device they would have to find a compliant distro…
Doesn’t matter much. At least those of us who aren’t engaged in the business of selling computers are unaffected.
Considering SteamOS includes Valve’s proprietary bits for the Steam client, this likely still applies to Valve and any hardware shipping with SteamOS
Where is the line? Most Linux distros have some nonfree software too, does it apply to them?
IMHO the correct legal and constitutional analysis ought to be: distributing software, in either source or binary form, is free speech protected under the US constitution as well as state constitutions. Therefore the government cannot pass laws requiring that operating systems, in general, implement certain features, doesn’t matter which.
What the government can do is engage in product regulation. It can require that operating systems preinstalled on devices sold in their jurisdiction have certain features. The correct thing to do wouldn’t have been to distinguish FOSS from nonfree operating systems, but operating systems preinstalled on devices from those distributed on the Internet which the user needs to install. That would have covered Android, iOS, macOS and Windows, which is obviously what the legislators were thinking of.
5·25 days agoIRC prank from the 2000s: if you type
/quit playing games with my heartyou’ll hear a cool pop song.2020s: if you type
quitinto Google it will understand this as an AI prompt.
It just has more of the web in its index than competitors do, so there are good practical reasons on occasion.
22·27 days agoWhen I first became familiar with the existence of free and open source software, GitHub did not exist yet. The most popular similar website was SourceForge. (Do many people much younger than me even know that exists?)
If things could change once, they can change again.
On the terminal yes.
On GUIs I generally use an IDE or VSCodium with vim keybindings.
I see. Not familiar with any good interface for that.
No, I thought that was a separate question precisely because I don’t see a connection between merge requests and mailing lists.
I don’t currently use mailing lists but when I did, I found Thunderbird very usable. Just set up a filter to move each list’s messages to a separate folder.
For merge requests, doesn’t the default GitLab web interface do those things already …?
That’s why IntelliJ shows you, in these kinds of cases, the names of the parameters where the function is called…
There are also languages, like Scala and Swift, with named parameters, which also solve this problem.
Windows becoming a Linux distribution.
not what I want, I want Windows (as in, the existing Windows codebase) to become FOSS, if that happened, we would no longer need to care about anyone switching to Linux, in fact I might then install a FOSS Windows myself
I remember already playing it through Wine in like 2009 or so, so all that is new is that it’s now a decompiled version.
I haven’t seriously used it myself, but maybe Qt Quick is somewhat like you’re looking for?
7·2 months agoDo you really think that you will get better answers on non-topical questions from these chatbots than from generic LLMs that are free to use anyway?
There are certainly some governments around the world that have considered requiring age verification for chatbots. Not sure any such laws are already in effect.
I don’t even want to express an opinion whether I find that worse or less bad than doing so for social media.