It refers to the news headlines exaggerating any “Person said <thing> is bad” into “Person SLAMMED <thing>”.

The point of that message is that “SLAMMING” (i.e. talking) is all they do, instead of actually implementing or at least pushing for progressive policies in their own spheres of influence.

What should he care about the desalinators? He’s not the one going without water.

But maybe Bibi will tell him to cut it out? Unless he’s hoping the catastrophe will galvanise his supporters further.

Another reason geriatric grifters shouldn’t hold office, but reason has long since been evicted from the halls of the mighty.

Better make the best of the time they last then

Ich bin mittlerweile dazu übergegangen, die Firma Mikroschlamm zu nennen, weil das den Chef so köstlich aufregt.

Davon abgesehen: Ich denke schon, dass es auch Fenster-Treiber geben muss, aber neu bauen ist manchmal halt sauberer als Technische Schulden von Jahrzenten mitschleppen.

Okay, das ist eine Pedanterie mit der ich gelegentlich rumscherze, aber vor Gericht würde ich das echt nicht ziehen.

Ich wiederhole mich: Die spinnen doch, die Angelsachsen.

Good point.

Maybe there should be a way to randomise it. Maybe there could be a script to automatically update my DoB entry to “Today - 18 years” every day. Or maybe there are some default values we could use that make it hard to track, like John Doe, 1970-01-01.

Or maybe we just don’t enforce entering anything. Given it’s not a thing in every jurisdiction, there needs to be a toggle to activate sharing it anyway. Be a shame if people found a way to trick the system.

Though the proposed Flatpak change works by responding to age brackets rather than specific dates. That would also obscure it a little, but be enough for parental controls. Whether those are reasonable is a different discussion I don’t feel like having at the moment.

Again, you’re right that it would help narrow it down, which might make it an arms race akin to security, where we’d have to keep finding ways to mess with the tracking, but there are more implementation layers that I imagine will be harder to enforce.

I also agree that it’s iffy, just as the realName and location fields, but it’s not quite as bad as all the newly-minted systemd haters make it out to be. If you’re an OG hater looking for more reasons, sure, be my guest.

Gut, auf der Arbeit ist ein guter Teil der Probleme eher Software/Systeme als die Geräte selbst. Wir haben nicht (nur) ein Standard-Büro-Setup sondern auch einige Infratrsuktur-Besonderheiten, die ein einzelnes, einheitliches System schwer umsetzbar machen. Entsprechend haben wir mehrere, die miteinander interagieren sollten, aber das nur mäßig gut tun. Insbesondere zwei Hersteller arbeiten wohl so gut zusammen, dass die Rechtsabteilung irgendwann einen freundlichen Brief über vertragliche Pflichten aufgesetzt hat.

Andererseits sind die Maschinen selbst eben auch Hoch-Volumen Multifunktionsdrucker für große Büros, und manche Spezialgeräte. Jede Extra-Funktion bringt da noch mal bewegliche Teile, die verschleißen oder kaputtgehen. Man füge hier noch User Error hinzu von Leuten mit mangelhaften Technik-Kenntnissen, Umgebungsbedingungen bei einigen der oben erwähnten Infrastruktur-Spezialitäten…

Mein Heimdrucker macht mir auch kaum mehr Ärger als “Warum druckt der Bilder so beschissen” und “Ich hasse Tonerkartuschen” (weil ich chronisch grobmotorisch bin und den Scheiß nicht noch mal aufputzen will). Die Firmware hat kleine Zicken, Auflösung für Bilder ist miserabel, aber alles erträglich.

Ich nehme mal an, 3D-Drucker-Firmware ist “sauberer” geschrieben, weil sie weniger Jahrzente an Altlasten und inkrementell rückwärtskomatiblen Entwicklungen rumschleppt, und Auflösung ist halt eine Limitierung der Technik die man dann im Nachgang nachfeilen muss.

“Verify” is a strong word, if the age in there isn’t actually verified. If I say my realName is Nunya Bissnis, my location is Atlantis and my birthDate is 1970-01-01, who’s going to check if that’s at all accurate?

I doubt those changes would be PRed, merged, updated in my distro and somehow automatically pushed to my system in the blink of an eye. This isn’t Microslop we’re talking about who can force-push intransparent “fuck your settings” at the drop of a hat, and I’m certainly going to be much more wary of upcoming updates now. This isn’t my point of objection (yet - mandatory entry would be), but definitely a point of caution.

If they stick to malicious “here, you can ask for a date, but we can’t guarantee which date, if any, you’ll get” compliance, that isn’t perfect, but it’ll be good enough to make a joke out of tracking the date at all.

Besides, just this change being minor would be no reason not to keep pushing back against the law and airing our discontent about the direction they’re heading in, because the direction is definitely concerning.

DDG isn’t

The systemd PR also referred to a flatpak PR who said they had wanted that to allow for parental controls even before the law came. That’s a somewhat reasonable use case, in my opinion.

I’ll believe that if and when they actually force me to upload identification to prove that my birthday really is 1970-01-01 and my name really is Nunya Bissnis. Otherwise, it’s really no different from Steam asking my birthday when opening store pages or porn sites asking “click here jf you’re 18” and take my word for it.

So long as it’s being enforced just as well as the realName field, I maintain that it is indeed harmless. If the point is to have a hilariously ineffective solution as a fig leaf against a stupid law, I’ll prefer that to efforts to actually implement verification.

Can both sides lose please?

But in a way that only hurts the power-hungry bastards, not the civilians

Über die fünf Jahre gerechnet, die ich meine aktuelle Stelle ausgeübt habe, machen Drucker mir etwa einmal pro Woche Kopfschmerzen. Dabei mitgerechnet sind zum Einen die Monate, in denen ich hauptsächlich bis ausschließlich an einem Druckerprojekt gearbeitet hab, zum anderen aber auch die gesegneten Jahre vorher in denen ich nichts mit ihnen zu tun hatte. Seit dem Projekt hab ich immer wieder mal damit zu tun (wenn man es einmal angefasst hat, ist man halt der Depp vom Dienst), so dass die Statistik sich relativ gut hält.

Ich hasse die Scheißteile.

If you’re on a mobile keyboard typing fast, vik to com isn’t a far stretch. Ciming also wants to autocorrect to coming. Voming too. Knowing my own fat-fingered omptecision and frequent mossed keys…

Actually, I’m surprised those last two typos weren’t autocorrected. (I could manually select the right suggestion and did correct several others, but decided to leave these in for effect. I’m really bad on mobile.)

LLMs are highly impressive text generators, amazing facsimiles of human writing and wholly unsuited to anything involving semantic understanding and critical thought. You cannot generate facts, and it doesn’t understand how the patterns it analyses and reproduces relate to actual concepts or things, but they’re extremely “knowledgeable” about those patterns.

They’re a technological marvel, relentlessly abused by grifters posing as prophets to scam the gullible.

Unfortunately, the gullible are executives and representatives.

Something something narcissist’s prayer.

I mean, Rome had peace. War elsewhere isn’t really an issue for the elites that do the writing of history…

It doesn’t as long as other init systems exist

Of course, which is why I said it was “somewhat” central earlier in the thread: it’s not universal, even if systemd is widely used.

Other init systems generally also have ways to store data (not specifically dates, just in general), and some overarching standard for securely accessing them would be useful for intercompatibility, but that’s a mess as it stands anyway.

people can luckily choose, hopefully that will always be the case.

Also agreed. Just because I personally come down on the systemd side of the debate doesn’t mean everyone should have to use it. Standards are nice, but there always should be alternatives, in case a standard gets captured by twats (which kinda is the debate we’re having: whether systemd has started bowing to fascists significantly enough to warrant migrating away).