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Several such movements have been going around since around September 2025, with some countries’ governments, e.g. Brazil’s current one, pushing for such for longer.

LLM shoehorning aside, holy shit, mobile-oriented site designs never fail to negatively impress me. Dunno if it’s the poor use of space, way too many pre-made categories shoved in the sidebar, text elements not being as clearly differentiated making them be ADHD triggers/inducers, or something else, but the beta forum for Stack Overflow feels like it ticks each problem I can think of.

Please give the jank. At least jank is usable, predictable and doesn’t make you feel like you need to take focus drugs/meds.

What would your ultimate distro be like?

The one that fits one’s needs the best. Given your frustration with unstable systems, I’d say the best ones would be those that take longer to make major updates, like Debian, Mint and Slackware, as then issues aren’t introduced as frequently, and older ones are better known and easier to fix or even preemptively circumvent.

The most basic version, just install from your distro’s repository if it has one. On Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc., for example, it"s sudo apt install wine.

If you’re on Steam, just enable compatibility, and Steam will handle everything for you, though do note you can only use their version of Wine (“Proton”) when launching through their launcher or calling the executable file directly.

If you’re on Heroic Launcher, there’s a menu for handling Wine versions, including downloading, and using is the same as Steam’s.

Can’t remember other methods now.

Closest comparison example I think is Mozilla/Firefox, since they started being banked by Google, and specially as the money tap was dried, they got erratic at best. Would it seem like Linux would follow a same path? Are there safeguards in place? Are there signs these companies force their own visions onto the Foundation?

Politicians often have social accounts, so people could pressure through those as well (POLITELY, I may add). If you know a given politician is more pro-privacy, ask to give more attention to the given laws, and to build more support among the other representatives. And if the given politician is somewhere betwenn anti-privacy and apathetic to it, argument against the law, and maybe remind of the possibility of recalls if California allows (iirc they do though) depending on how the representative is representing the people or not.

Strong-arming a measure across several states in a federation, and across many countries across the globe, doesn’t make the measure democratic.

Also if any countries go through a “Brazilfication”, might I suggest to check what happens whenever a big leak happens in Brazil?

About a good legal standard, doesn’t most of the world have one already? Something like “presumption of innocence”, instead of “presumption of guilt”, I think?

About already leaking information, please enlighten me how facilitating and standardizing it helps in any when. Also the more bloated an entity, the state included, is, the more enticing it is for attackers, which also brings the next point…

To my knowledge, fascism went by the motto “all within the state, nothing out of the state, all for the state”, which would also be what fascia (strip) from partido fascista alludes to. And with that in mind, surveillance was used to supress dissidence, which also happened in Germany around the same time, and that Orwell warned about communism in 1984. Creating a state-run surveillance network bodes very badly, if you ask me.

And still about fascism, I’m always suspicious when it’s mentioned in a discussion as it’s often used to label and demonize those the speaker disagrees with.

And surprised that the “think about the children” argument used by modern regimes with similar practices only appeared as down as point 5.

Also please enlighten me also how slipery slope doesn’t apply, as the paragraph about it doesn’t seem to touch in the hows.

And about the last paragraph, it sounds awfully like an “appeal to autority” argument.

If I must find a positive side of this whole situation, is that it’s giving such a big exposure to this ongoing privacy issue that even those that applauded, quietly benefitted and/or pretended it wasn’t real need to shift their positions, giving more space for those who push against the issue.

Haven’t tested LibreWolf so can’t compare them

On Linux, I use Waterfox. On Android, I use Fennec. Both much lighter than Firefox, and Waterfox specifically doesn’t need to be installed on Linux (my biggest concern in Linux - most is installed to the system), and the dev seems to be slowly separating Waterfox from the Firefox base, instead of keeping it as a stripped down Firefox. On the privacy side of things, not knowledgeable enough myself to audit them, but haven’t seen any scandals on either yet.

Perhaps indeed unreachable, then, to which it’s better to wait for an administrator.

Also what happens if you go to lemmy.ml/search and try to search for the direct link of any given post from !hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se?

Been observing this year a few issues regarding federation and refused connections. Perhaps it’s a similar situation?

Hopefully if/when you produce anything, people that would consume it don’t have the same mentality.

NY Times

Nuff said

Checking out of morbid curiosity, but before that, I can’t help but to think, did some government commission the article?

Retroarch for example comes with a dot-starting folder where data is stored.

the sun

Jokes aside, most of what I’d use in a baremetal installation, I can also do in a VM. The few things that don’t work revolve lack of proper hardware acceleration for XP/Vista games, of which I have some.

Also about Moltbook, paraphrasing an older comment of mine, social medias run by AIs are like Computer vs Computer battles in PS2 games - it’s fun to watch only for first one or two battles.

Had forgotten Moltbook was a thing. Or maybe it was something else with the proposal of “social media for AIs; humans optional”.

Reminds me of some news about Meta pushing LLMs in the comments of Facebook, and also about the zombie profiles where those from dead people would keep posting through LLM mimicry as if the person was alive. I wonder if Meta is hellbent on making the dead internet theory real.

it’s just the tip

Portugal’s current government is pretty unstable in these past few years from what I check every now and then, so I wonder if they’re trying to make it amid the confusion of political shift, “as the lights are turning off” as a local saying goes, so no one notices as dust settles.