Well… It cannot even search databases without errors.

LLMs just produce plausible replies in natural languages very quickly and this is useful in certain situations. Sometimes it helps humans getting started with a task, but as it is now, it cannot replace them. As much as the capital class want it, and sink our money into it.

I guess you are joking? And mean “side-loading” as in injecting custom code via LD_PRELOAD and not the strange definition phone makers use for describing ‘installing an app’.

You are seem to disagree with yourself… On the one hand you say I should ask them to make a case for their argument, but on the other I’m not allowed to ask for evidence.

But instead I need to provide a proof for… them not providing proof that their argument is not a non-sequitur? Did I get that right?

most people can get behind parental control. that is why bad actors are pushing for age verification everywhere nowadays.

Yes. And I would complain if there is a requirement to need third-party for-profit companies in order to verify peoples ages. Companies want data, and government want control. Both are bad in this case.

i think the issue many people have with that field is, that it enables bad actors to do things.

This needs to be proven. Currently it doesn’t do anything. But there is work to integrate it with flathub, that would allow administrators e.g. parents, to limit access to certain apps. Maybe later there could be some kind of web interface, where a site that offers adult content, would ask the browser, and the browser would look into the account data and then respond if the logged in person is an adult or not. No third-party required, just the person that locally set the date of birth on an local account.

all the while, it does not really do the thing it is supposed to do: if i trust my kid with sudo, the field can easily be altered. if i do not trust my kid with sudo, it cannot install anything either way.

Many apps can be installed without root privileges, for instance via flatpak. And in the future it might prevent certain apps for kids.

with your last paragraph i (and probably most people) agree. but we already have those tools, right?

IDK… I think there are more tools available on Windows for that then on Linux… But I my parents never deployed those and I also never had the need for such tools.

But I guess, very often DNS block lists can be used to block adult content… But knowing the internet and adblockers based on DNS alone, that will often lead to many false negatives and positives. So I would argue that we don’t really have anything like it right now for Linux Desktops.

Why do people so often invert the burden of proof?

If someone says “Picking your nose will cause brain-cancer in 40 years.” Then they have the burden to proof that. Nobody has the burden to disprove that.

They made the accusation that this is a step to make this age fields mandatory, and controlled by third-party age verification services, so they have the burden to proof that there is way to do that.

I find it highly unlikely, because most people using Linux systems at home have admin privileges. Which makes this whole point moot, since they can fake whatever they like to the software running on top.

Maybe this is the issue. I have no problems with parents setting the age of the children in their account in order limit their access to certain content.

And there clearly exists a use-case for that.

My main issue is when it comes to third-party age/identity verification services. Age or identity verification in the hands of private for-profit companies is bad.

I’d rather give parents the tools to set individual restrictions locally on their devices, then pushing for a global internet based age filter.

You do know that this is a slippery slope argument, right?

You would have to demonstrate that there is an intention there to require third party services to validate the age of users using Linux… Or that there is an intention to do so by systemd and the broader open source developers.

I don’t think it will be easily possible to lock out every Linux system from the internet that doesn’t implement some kind of hardware DRM mechanism to make sure that the user cannot just change the date of birth with root permissions.

Every accusation of them is an admission of guilt.

So stop buying any US made hardware.

I’m pretty sure he thinks allies of the US are beta males that follow the US alpha male…

Stupid toxic masculinity and their constant attempts to cover up their weakness and insecurities by pretending they are ‘real men’. And ‘real men’ don’t have empathy. So they behave like self serving pricks.

Why do people vote baby brained bullies into positions of power?

Maybe just put all roms and savegames into a syncthing directory?

It’s not really multi user, since everyone has the same savegames, but maybe a start?

Or are you more talking about streaming games centrally to a display?

“Better” is in the eye of the beholder. DLSS 5 is optional, as are the shader and texture mods that are available for many games for ages. They both change the look of the game in ways the people creating them didn’t intend. I don’t really care about what the creators of games intended, I want to have fun playing it, and I’m okay with changing/modding the game until I have more fun. That is “better” to me.

DLSS5 probably doesn’t matter to me anyway, since the Nvidia together with their AI business centipedes actually don’t want to sell GPUs to consumers anymore.

(If you downvote, I would be really interested in hearing your argument. From my POV you either dislike people modding their game, or are a hypocrite. If it is about hating Nvidia and the current AI bubble, I’m with you there.)

IDK… I think the percentage of people smoking mind altering substances is much higher than 0.0001%.

I remember people writing 3D Wayland window compositors, where you can walk around a room/maze and put application windows on walls.

Maybe it was this: https://github.com/capisce/mazecompositor

That was already tried, not very sucessfully. It was called glimpse.

Hallucinations of LLMs are just one class of errors, and the most dangerous one.

Other stuff like garbeled or repeating output are other errors.

Hmm… I always thought that the goal of consoles is to provide fewer options. You don’t need to choose which components you want, you just buy the one and only box offered by the company.

And then there are the exclusives, where you also, as someone buying a different box, didn’t get the choice to buy the game released for another box. And generally have fewer games to play.

Then there are the (online) shops, where, as a console player, you either have no choices or fewer.

Then there is multiplayer, where with a console you cannot use other services, and even have to pay for it.

And modding, which is also pretty limited on console, and you generally don’t have the tools to create mods yourself to customize your gaming experience.

So… All in all, I thought the main ‘advantage’ of consoles is that you don’t need to make so many choices, because making decisions is hard. But that comes at a cost, lower entry cost (hardware), but higher operating cost (games, online play).

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Don’t worry, review was done by an LLM as well. ;)

privacy guarantees

security guarantees, not privacy guarantees.

With root you can actually control what kind of things each app does and stores, and check what data it transmits to remote servers. But it also breaks/weakens the android security model, where apps can do, store or transmit stuff protected from the eyes of the user of the phone.

I’ve been using Linux since IDK over 25 years. But I have multiple devices and frequently distro hop. Currently, Bazzite on SteamDeck, a CachyOS upgraded from an Archlinux on Laptop, Fedora Kinolite on a different one and a tablet, QubesOS on a third, OpenSuse MicroOS on a container host, Debian on a Server and another container host, Archlinux on another server, bunch of OpenWrts on routers and switches, NixOS on some RaspberryPies and a build server, some Debian based Proxmox PVE systems…

So… I guess I’m just confused on my identity on that pipeline.