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Pretty sure that compared to NetBSD, Linux still runs on relatively few architectures. 😝
4·11 days agoNews outlets, for example, could spin up a server on their own official domain, and provide accounts to employees. So someone posting from a @news.bbc.com instance could, at a glance, be understood to be a genuine BBC reporter.
Some already do that. The ones I am familiar with are in German though: social.heise.de and mastodon.derstandard.at.
Jes, kaj mi supozas, ke tiu chi parto de la fadeno estas nun proprajho de la Universala Esperanto-Asocio.
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
3·20 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.
On the terminal yes.
On GUIs I generally use an IDE or VSCodium with vim keybindings.
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.
die Grammatik ist nicht wirklich besser
2·1 month 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?
bro are you just mass-crossposting things from reddit or what? Those camel case titles aren’t really common here, you know.
Yup. I remember in the 2000s and early 2010s it was very widely agreed that websites that allow user generated content are a good thing and politics should advance their existence, not try to pass laws making it harder.
Nothing about the facts has changed since then. Politicians’ attitudes meanwhile…
It’s a problem for any kind of social media, not just federated.
2·2 months agoSteam says, out of those I have in my library there, Rocket League. But it’s relatively closely followed by GTA 5, which I’ve also played on a console (those hours wouldn’t be counted there), so I suspect that that’s the real answer overall. GTA 5 is just a wonderfully deep game with an entertaining story where you can almost never run out of things to explore.
It’s possible that Pokémon FireRed or Emerald has even more, that was too long ago for me to know for sure.
OK, if it is intended mainly as a description of investors and other “business” enthusiasts, then I agree with fighting against what they want.
If I don’t know what that means I’m fighting against, I won’t be fighting against “techbros”, not even using that term. I might still fight against specific things they are doing…
It will send out a message to relevant servers that it should be deleted. There is no guarantee that they will comply with that message. If your post has been copied to hundreds or thousands of other servers, there is no guarantee that they will all receive or understand that message. Some may even be actively malicious, for example because they are controlled by exactly the people you want to hide from!
I remember once deleting a comment (on this account) a few seconds after posting it. After that, I kept getting upvotes for it! I found out that that was happening because one very popular instance had for some reason not deleted the comment, so its users had no idea that it was supposed to be gone.
Everything on the public Internet is. Anyone can set up a bot that just scrapes and archives everything on the Internet that it can find; and governments certainly have the resources to do so!
Potentially.
Posting things on the public Internet, especially under one’s real name, inherently comes with that risk. Always has.