I was so hoping helion was going to work. They were trying to recapture the pulse in magnetic confinement when fusion pulsed. Eliminating steam would be awesome.

I’ve seen stock traders where everyone on the floor had half that many. A few of them had 9.

When they’re looking up trades or news, they open a ridiculous number of windows while doing research.

They have 4 screens just to watch the markets and handle in-house controls.

What’s striking about this is the amount of whitespace on the screens. They are only using 1/2 - 1/4 of their screen space.

if all forms of verification are deal breakers, we either need to get laws made to make it unlawful, or we need to boycot services that require it.

The government is still going to do whatever it wants, and they already mishandle all your data.

all what sensitive data?

Speak to a customer service agent while they ask you a few timed-dated questions

Video chat with a customer service agent.

if it’s a real name account:

Small credit card charge to a card in your name.

provide a scan of a utility bill

provide a scan of a car title

So from my PoV the question is whether it’s better that Linux will be prohibited for noncompliance

That’s the same slope.

It it better that systemD add a column?

Is it better than ubuntu starts enforcing it?

Is it better that they just outlaw software that doesn’t comply?

For me, that line starts back at the very beginning. There’s no room for FOSS for Authoritarianism. I’m not interested in giving them a few inches of rope so that they can hang us with it later. If governments want to use Linux, they can, they can even fork it and make their own changes. They don’t get to demand how our own software tracks us.

You see that’s the inches part.

No, we won’t invade freedom

Well, we won’t invade freedom, but we’re just going to put this field in so that someone can comply easily if they want to

Well, not all the distros require you to log your age

Well, you can cheat or lie

History is absolutely full of people taking the temperature of the water they’re in and going, well, it’s not boiling yet…

It’s not nothing, freedom is often taken by inches.

Next step will be to require Video with bop-it style live instructions, stick out your tongue, blink one eye, pick your nose, make finger guns, smile, frown. They won’t care that it’s not disability friendly.

I wonder how much that would reduce their traffic. Would there be anything but niche groups left?

Appears to be a Porotherm ceramic block (or something close to it)

Makes sense to me. Debian is stability and patience. We don’t care about the latest version of Plasma unless we have a specific need for it.

Fedora pissed us off by splitting redhat and then fucking over centos.

Ubuntu is trying to do a lot of stupid shit.

The only greyer distros in my mind is slackware, Gentoo, OpenSuse or OpenBSD.

Imo NixOS kicks all their asses :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr1TiKaL

Oh fucking hell, could you imagine house on this plane? Esp with ASH behind him?

1 if ozzy is alive.

2 is ok, brewstew might have some stories worth hearing.

3 might go well, would probably go very wrong.

4. I don’t know what Ferris did to have to sit next to durst.

5. Hell yes, just to talk shop with Smith and Mewes.

6. Haven’t watched Pretty Derby, prob not for me

7. House and GTA, hell yes

8. Don’t watch Cr1tiKal, and I think ash would be annoying, but petting his pokemon might be fun

9. If lemmy was alive, maybe, don’t know anything about bbno$

10. Don’t watch konosuba

OMG Verizon.

I JUST saw this yesterday when resetting my password.

I expect they just mail you a temporary password with 2FA turned off.

mom has a damn nice vacuum.

I was putting my kid on Signal to join the family chat, he didn’t have service, so we just used wifi. I don’t know for sure that this hasn’t changed, but when I tried, they refused a google voice account and also refused an sms api acct. I dug into it some more and it appears you have to install it on a phone with cellular service, it needs to read your phone’s ID.

I tried deactivating my phone, activating his acct on my phone with Google Voip, then moving it to his tablet. It would work for about a week then stop.

I dug through a bunch of reddit and group threads on it, you simply could not activate it without a real SMS and a cellular link with all the ID’s.

We eventually got him an apple watch with service, and it allowed that SMS in concert with my phone. Then I installed on his tablet and put my phone back to me. Once in a blue moon, it’ll make him reverify with SMS from the watch, but it works and doesn’t require my phone with service anymore.

It might just be something about google’s voip which a lot places refuse, but it also refused twillio.

If the only data surfacable from Signal is the phone number, not the crypto conversation, they didn’t source you on signal and get your number, they got your number through other means and used it to prove you use signal.

They can’t see the conversation to contents to supoena the number to id.