License: Proprietary (MIT)

Are you feeling alright, AlternativeTo?

Define ‘sold’ because everyone has its own understanding of what that term means. What are you worried about?

For tracking analysing the data is required. Even if user doesn’t do anything sophisticated, just upgrading the browser will change their fingerprint; services that track users need to be prepared for that. But consider that 34 bits is enough to uniquely identify every person on the planet. If you’re able to collect say 50 bits of information about a request, even if some information changes, you can cluster the requests and attribute to the same user.

Yes, that’s why I wrote ‘in this case’. Those two bits of information which are highly correlated with user’s behaviour on a website don’t meaningfully impact the privacy. And regarding Discord, having age attestation on OS level has a chance to reduce number of websites which ask for ID thus improving overall privacy.

You’re already uniquely identified: https://amiunique.org/. Privacy is a non-issue in this case.

My first recommendation is to just use graphical environment. My second is to try fbterm.

Terminal and console are two different things. Console is what you get if your computer boots up in text mode. Terminal is what you start inside graphical environment (X or Wayland). Which one are you having issues with? What does echo $TERM output? If it’s the former, how are you watching videos exactly? O_o If it’s the latter, setfont won’t do anything; you need to look at configuration of your terminal emulator or try a different one.

I would go with Debian package but for me the primary consideration is how much I care about having the latest version of given software. Often I don’t really care that much. Although it needs to be said that I’m on Debian testing.

With gl/Vulcan and some other libraries that’s pretty challenging to do if your goal is to become more portable not less portable.

I still don’t see how this is different from Windows. Games on Windows ship with DirectX. Ship whatever graphics libraries you need if you’re worried about ABI breaking.

Shipping also sort of different libraries with your proprietary game could also be a licensing issue.

No, it’s not. Any library you’re dynamically linking to that’s present in a Linux distribution, you can distribute yourself.

Linux ABI compatibility is a fuck.

I’m never convinced by this argument. If game developers have problems with ABI they can do what they’re already doing on Windows: ship their game with all the dependencies. Casual gamer’s Windows system might have more versions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable than they have games installed. This had been my experience.

If you write new code looking at the old code in another editor window, that’s likely derivative work. If you’ve never seen the original code and are looking only at the API, that’s likely not derivative work. Determining whether the code is ‘new’ is insufficient.

I have no issues with the article. I have issue with the post which calls KYC laws evil. That’s what sensational (though maybe a different word would fit better).

PS. Oh, I see. You came from the recent cross-post at Australia. Observe that poster there used an objective title giving straight numbers. OP here used a completely different title.

And if you don’t collect that data, criminals and scammers will use free access to banking system to fund their scams and crimes. Letting people drive cars will obviously lead to accidents and deaths, that’s not a reason to outright ban people from driving. Just like risk of data branches is not a reason to outright call KYC evil.

I certainly don’t call that evil. There are many laws that exist solely to help law enforcement, they aren’t automatically evil.

You’re just confirming what I’ve written: Problems are companies who nickel-and-dime on security. And yes, we need punishments for data breaches. This has nothing to do with KYC laws being evil. It’s just OP being a money launderer.

Criminals also have great time with knives, or rope, or crowbars. Not reason to say all those things are evil. Problems are companies who nickel-and-dime on security.

Nothing evil in preventing funding of criminals. GTFO with this sensational subject line.

PS. To clarify, because there is some confusion, I’m referring to OP using post title starting with: ‘If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil,’

Because those recommendations are written for new users. A new user will be better served by a distribution which puts user-friendliness at its forefront. If you’re not a newbie you probably don’t need recommendations because you already know what distributions are available out there.

The data is misleading. Obviously there’ll be more requests for domains with low TTL because those domains aren’t cached. The overall conclusion and points of the blog post may be correct, but the presented data doesn’t say anything.

I find it funny that just couple weeks ago I’ve written about the format. What’s especially interesting about this format is that it can losslessly transcode JPEG into JPEG XL while offering around 20% file size reduction. It can be used to reduce size of one’s image gallery without any loss of quality.