He isn’t employed by Red Hat nor Microsoft anymore, and wasn’t when this whole age field controversy started.
He’s founder and chief engineer of Amutable.

And you did write “bootlicking class traitors like Lennart Poettering need to be bitch-slapped”.
This is exactly the rhetoric and thinking which lead to him and other maintainers receiving death threats and pizza deliveries at their home address. Maybe you’re familiar with the term “Stochastic Terrorism”.

I’m sure if we just keep sending more death threats and pizza deliveries to the homes of volunteer FOSS maintainers, the Trump admin will reconsider this law.

There’s a political movement that gained steam in the EU to make social media companies responsible for the content they deliver.
This would have meant they’d have to implement robust age verification on their platforms to comply with EU youth protection laws (including fines per child that could access unsuitable content).
So they lobbied for delegating the age verification to the OS level instead.
That way they can continue to push harmful, addictive slop to children without being legally responsible.
They can just say “we check the age provided by the OS”.

NATO was officially founded as a defensive alliance to ensure if one member is attacked, others will support them.
No NATO member was attacked by Iran, Palestine, Lebanon or Yemen. So the war had nothing to do with NATO.

I do know NATO was always used offensively and to tie its members to America’s illegal wars without a UN resolution.

That’s a pretty nice…
Outlook

Are they maintained by a private corporation?

I think that’s the point of PINs. Otherwise they’d just be very, very shitty MS account passwords.

Of course a submarine’s systems won’t be connected to the internet, but using a Windows base with a “Custom Support Agreement” still gives a private US corporation the power to cripple their subs.
IMO something so critical to defense should be built by British developers, and based on OpenBSD.

The European Union is set to transfer Ukraine €1.4 billion in profits generated from frozen Russian central bank assets.
95% of the proceeds will be used to support Ukraine through the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism, which helps Kyiv service loans provided by the EU and G7 partners.
The remaining 5% will be allocated via the European Peace Facility to address Ukraine’s military and defense needs.

Just to clarify: They’re not taking frozen Russian money and giving it to Ukraine!

They’re taking the interest generated by the frozen Russian money, and pay 95% of it to themselves and other countries who loaned money to Ukraine.

No actual money arrives in Ukraine. Only Ukraine’s debt to the EU is reduced by that amount.

But it’s a good time to put /home on a separate partition and make backups of files you edited in /etc so you can switch distros quickly.

Been on Linux for 20 years and I’m on Debian and Arch. Both are very different but equally great systems.
I tried Slackware a couple of times cause it combines the simple design of Arch with the stability of Debian, but it’s a bit too much in both regards.
As for desktop environments, I used to use Gnome on laptops and Plasma on desktops, but I recently stumbled upon Niri with Dank Material Shell and feel like it combines the advantages of both (fast keyboard/touchpad control, fully featured, lots of GUI customization options).

The majority of Jews don’t live in Israel.
NONE of the victims of these antisemitic attacks live in Israel.
And even the majority of Jews who do live in Israel don’t support Netanyahu (The numbers are similar to Trump support in the US).
So keep that in mind.

Attacking Jews in Europe or the US for what Netayahu does is like attacking British people for what Trump does.

Maybe. Its only hard dependency is quickshell, which seems to be available for FreeBSD: https://github.com/charlesrocket/quickshell/tree/fbsd

It doesn’t depend on systemd.
But I’d be very surprised if it works as intended out of the box without some fiddling.
In any case, you’d have to install it manually. The provided scripts are only for Linux.

It uses 1.2GB of RAM compared to 800MB for niri without dms, and idles at 5% CPU load.
I run it on an 8-year-old Thinkpad E480 with an i5-8250U and 16GB RAM.

I don’t know what that is or how to check it, and frankly I don’t care that much if they’re using AI.
I didn’t notice any bugs so far and I’m not relying on it for mission-critical work.
If I boycotted everything that’s made with AI help, I’d have to go back to Slackware.

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Because it’s easy to configure an “open with…” dialog with multiple options per mime type.
I often want to open image files with gimp, but don’t want it to be my default image viewer.

Yes, click on the clock, then Settings -> Dankbar -> Settings -> Position -> Bottom

The law says an OS needs to have a way of entering a birth date.
Not the correct birth date, it doesn’t need to allow checking it. Just any date.

That’s inconsequential relative to basically everything else.