This sounds so much like Overseer’s - Heligoland: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4NmrluR4VkY

A good video on it dropped recently: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M55XzxjmON0

Then what? What stops the kids downloading and running whatever software they like?

How can this replace “child control” software? The system web browser may well report the age field (or age bracket) to websites without letting the user modify it, but what stops them downloading a browser that does let them modify it? Or modifying the source code and compiling a version to lie about their age?

Yeah this would have a pretty different reaction if it was the US social security number that was required by these laws. OK it’s not verified yet and you’re not required to enter it, but what motivation is there for mandating a field for a personal ID number?

I can’t stand it any longer. It’s the slop!

We still have the Scunthorpe problem in 2026?

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

It’s an optical delay-line memory. Early computer memories were acoustic in some manner.

I can’t imagine that the latency of ‘delay line RAM’ would be acceptable to anyone today. Maybe there’s some clever multiplexing that could improve that but it would surely add more complexity that just making more RAM ICs.

Here’s the soundtrack: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TGIvO4eh190

I read this in the Denholm Reynholm voice: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ejjtlnZOdgo

Use Nix. And keep your system config in git.

F

(That’s not going to help you, just paying my respects.)

Way to go rebranding ‘employment.’

REM virus

For sure, that’s what I see. I’m just ‘locked in’ with Latex since all my colleagues use it and I’m used to a lot of packages there. At some point I’d like to try Typst out but now is not a good time.

Same via NixOS, I use high-resolution scrolling but Libreoffice seems worse than normal scrolling. I think it’s using XWayland for some reason but I really don’t have time to unearth what the difference is between the libreoffice and libreoffice-qt-fresh packages and if any of them can actually use Wayland.

Or Typst. I don’t want to learn Typst, but it looks way better than Latex.

JANET!

Use sudoedit (or sudo -e) to make sure you don’t mess up permissions and also export EDITOR=vim in your shell to use a superior editor.