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?

Use Nix. And keep your system config in git.

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

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.

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Like this?

That’s right! It goes in the Linux hole.

I heard they replaced snaps with their own package format.

What is this? The site seems to forward to thaihut.org despite the UK domain name that was registered on Jan 9th this year. It’s full of random articles, most with AI generated images, all ‘penned’ by “Max Olivier” in English but the contact page is in french.

It’d be nice to read an actual journalist’s analysis of this but the article seems to just be mass generated AI slop.

Dang, it could be the upstream DNS server passing along client queries. Maybe the ISP?

In that case not even curl would be safe unless you could ensure all queries only resolve on your gear. Either use a host file entry or local DNS server.

Have you sent the URL across any messaging services? Lots of them look up links you share to see if it’s malware (and maybe also to shovel into their AI). Even email services do this.

There are tools like snapper and btrbk that periodically make snapshots. Since btrfs is a COW filesystem, the live subvolume just stores newer changes on top of the snapshot — it doesn’t need to copy anything until it changes. Only when file data is no-longer referenced is it actually marked free to overwrite. This can make disk usage a bit un-intuitive since you can have large files stuck in snapshots that don’t show up in your live subvolumes but still use up space. It can really save you from serious mess ups and is really cheap in terms of performance. It’s also possible to send snapshots over a network to another machine if you want longer term backups without keeping them on local disks.

Oh wow, so they actually stripped off the attribution to ffmpeg and slapped their own name and license in place of it. Now they’re forced to restored the license they’re working to rewrite it all themselves so they can delete the copyrighted code. They’re so sorry though.

There’s also shift+insert if you want a keyboard shortcut. I remapped it to meh+v.