And nothing of value was lost. I’m over social media, over commercial apps, and maybe I’m over having a mobile phone, too.

You can’t make this stuff up.

A service requiring users to upload verifiable identification info, created and staffed by literal government spooks. And – what?!? – they’re using said data inappropriately?

You’re right, but if they have your password manager, they likely have your phone, and that means they have your Aegis too.

Still, my suggestion is less of a second factor unless you have 2fa on your keypass, so not best practice.

Keepass can replace Aegis for TOTP

That really is nice, right? I also like when my apps have no mechanism to connect to the internet, so you don’t have to worry about trackers, data exfiltration, etc.

That’s a really good point. At that point, we’re just talking about a voluntary answer, right? I’m more concerned about the API exposed to the world, so patching that away was what I was thinking.

So MX Linux (which, last I checked already had an alternative to systemd) should follow suit as a derivative of antiX, right?

ETA: I went from MX to Nobara last spring when my RX 9070 needed new Mesa to work (as opposed to a black screen), but I’d be happy to go back. It was super stable.

ID verification brought to you by Wegets Hakktalot. Where information security didn’t make it to the budget.

I would like a package you could easily install on any distro that patches age verification out of the system. I’m not switching distros (yet) for this, as much as I also am not on board with the concept of OS-level compliance with mass control and censorship.

No worries. I use Voyager. I don’t think I’ve ever cross posted, but I think it works. I see others doing it all the time

In case your client just spins trying to load the content like mine did:

Over the past few months, our former payment provider Nexi S.p.A. (“Nexi”) requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters. We have refused this request. All our attempts to clarify Nexi’s request, or to understand how their need for such information was necessary and legal, were met with what we consider to be vague and unsatisfactory explanations relating to a general need for risk analysis. > > Subsequently, we found ourselves unable to receive credit card donations through Nexi’s system. In the afternoon of 10 March, we were further informed that our contract had been cancelled a few days prior on 7 March, due to our supposed failure to meet their deadline to fulfil their request. This deadline was not communicated to us beforehand, despite us having been Nexi’s customer for the past 15 years. This is completely crazy! As 450 supporters are affected, that is a huge amount of donations that were cut off!

Here’s what they said:

Like many of you, we were surprised by the news last week, and questions quickly followed about our position on this matter. We just have to wait to see how this will develop for FOSS and Linux in general. It isn’t easy for us to make a clear statement on it at this moment, because this decision involves not only the distros but also DE/WM environments, software packages and mirror networks. Like Arch, we don’t have any infrastructure to track how many users download or install our system, let alone who is running Endeavour on their machines. Besides the fact that it goes against FOSS fundamentals, we simply don’t have the manpower or resources to take on this near-impossible task.

Also, in creating this law, not a single person or entity from the FOSS world was represented or heard, and there is still a window of opportunity open to address the concerns for open source software and Linux/Freebsd systems before the law takes effect. After the news dropped, the OSI, FSF, and Linux Foundation must have realised their mistake in not reacting in time and hopefully will come into action for the many distributions and other FOSS projects, like us, that don’t have Californian or US legal representation. So, all eyes are on them, because Colorado and the rest of the world are next… We are not blaming any of the organisations mentioned by the way. We are just pointing out that the law isn’t set in stone, yet.

Exactly. Bonus points if they encourage players to spend real money for a few months before pulling the plug.

NGL, I expected any STW announcement to be about them ending it and deleting that part of the game. They’ve been pretty light on development for the only part of the game that people actually path to play for years.

No. A Mac becomes a non-personal computer. And NPC…?

This is correct. The folks adding these trackers to their sites usually have little to zero tech knowledge. They see a plugin or other way to provide them with the metrics they think they need and its “so easy” to use tag manager or the Facebook pixel.

I knew someone working for a nonprofit that was building out a form for indigenous troubled families, and they used both google and meta tools. Their intended cohort actively avoided it based on their initial finding that it was tracking them (they apparently had a tech person on their side of the table). This prompted a whole board level meeting, which resulted in the removal of the trackers, which were later re-added in another,less skeevy way, after the data they wanted stopped flowing) and the immediate enrollment in the program by hundreds of families.

In the end, they decided they need those tools, as alternatives were to clunky for them. Google and Meta make it seem easy for you, since they have much to gain and little to lose by making their data collection tools easy to implement. I went round and round with my friend about how bad this was, and they got it, but their higher-ups overrode them.

And Meta and Google lived happily ever after…

Isn’t VirtualBox an Oracle property now? Fuck VirtualBox.

Or spin up your own NTP server and NAT those requests to it.

But even at 5$ a piece, and if 1/5 work decently with Linux, you are looking at like 45$ / working piece, or even more if someone is refurbing it

$25

($5*5)=$25

I’m not awake yet, but one of our maths is off. I’m only 45% sure it’s not mine.

And Mathias Döpfner is himself an out of touch billionaire-class nut who applauds the tamping of freedoms (including of the press) and jumps at every chance to breathe life into lies that advance his oligarchic wet dreams. The kind of person who says horrible things, then lies about saying them, and when confronted with the receipts, pretends he was just being “edgy” or “provocative” to provoke the plebs.

News organizations that exist to accurately report the news and properly inform the public are the exception now, I’m afraid. The rest have an agenda, and it never involves the common good.