That’s against the local police though. My guess is your 2nd amendment won’t be worth much against the pentagon.

Lol

This nonsense of sending passports is just ridiculous. Users don’t want to send it, and websites don’t want to have them - it just makes them a bigger target for these kinds of hacks.

Luckily the EU is working on a better solution to this that works on a zero-knowledge principle. Meaning the website doesn’t get to know who you are, and the government doesn’t know who’s asking.

If you’re going to need age verification (I don’t like it, but I also agree it’s inevitable for some things), this is a much, much less stupid way to go about it.

Has it? When?

I say this without condemning or condoning your statement, but comments like this are the reason why they are doing this.

(seriously though, the comment section here itself ironically looks like slop - filled with terrible rhetoric and circlejerk comments)

Yeah, Linus is hella cringe, he got no riz. No cap.

Etc

I hope you’re right, but I’m not holding my breath.

You should though.

Not only do they have an interest, they are also in control of that price. And any other supplier is exactly in the same boat. When supply is lower than demand, prices go up, it’s economics 101.

It’s not quite realistic to get feature parity with the huge platforms just on a volunteer basis though. And you might not care about 90% of the features, but that in turn means less adoption, which means less software, less possibilities.

I mean, I too would want all the best things without any of the downsides, but that takes a Huge amount of effort. And I don’t see how we can realistically get there without money.

While barely related to Linux, I can genuinely recommend this article. If there’s anyone who can give a nuanced but realistic take on AI, it’s Bert.

If you’re in the mindset of AI BAD/AI GREAT you might want to skip this one.

Agreed - things aren’t black or white.

After all, only a Sith deals in absolutes ;p

I wouldn’t take that statement too seriously, some people really like to gatekeep. The simple fact is that Ubuntu has done a lot to make Linux more accessible to a lot of people who otherwise would still be using another OS. That also makes it an easy target for ridicule.

Having said that, they also made a lot of unpopular decisions, especially amongst Linux purists.

I don’t follow - if one does review and vet every line of code, how could one not understand it?

That’s the whole point of doing a code review.

I did this too years ago, with varying levels of success.

Now I just buy Linux laptops instead - dell at work, Tuxedo computers for personal use. Less worry about supported hardware that way too.

Honestly, shit like this is why I set up my own lemmy instance where down votes are disabled. It’s built in configuration option, but very, very few instances have it set.

In practice it works pretty well. Popular stuff rises faster than unpopular stuff, but people don’t get shit on for valid but unpopular opinions. It also means you can’t down vote yourself, but the counter to that is to just up vote other things. So much less toxicity and more positivity - I can really recommend it.

And don’t forget about right wing bots!

For what it’s worth: I used the skyrim character creator to validate my YouTube account. “Look to the left. Now look to the right. Yups, you look like a human to me, Dovahkiin.”

If I understand checkt, hey’re not actually capturing the sound, just measuring the delays that hardware- and software specific implementations introduce. With the Web audio api, you can connect all sorts of nodes to one another - audio file input, to a left/right splitter, to a frequency analyser, to a joiner, etc. It can get quite complex. Like you said, actually needing mic input would be too obvious and the