This is why I never used their images for any of my projects and do everything I can to use official charts made by the software vendor itself or create my own and put them in my personal git repo for automated deployments.

Any business that gives away middleware for free, likely does that in the hopes of monetizing that pretty directly and eventually will be pressured to increase monetization of those things by those investors or will be forced to stop developing those products due to lack of funding. Middleware really doesn’t have many other good ways to monetize.

The laws aren’t about protecting children, though. Only legitimate sites will implement it, and legitimate sites generally aren’t the most problematics sites.

The laws are actually designed to allow for the tracking of adults’ activity and link them to that activity in a way that is provable in court. Anyone who wants to use the sites for nefarious purposes can just impersonate others and frame them for the use. So, there’s no real value in any of it, just a way to get campaign funding. The real solutions would be too expensive to implement and require experts to design who are much more likely to be highly educated and thus unwilling to help a fascist state, so they’ll never happen.

And because many out there still believe the world is better off without us and/or that they’re morally obligated to remove us from this world. But still we exist, have always existed, and always will exist no matter what. It’s in the nature of most sexually reproducing animals, including humans, for us to exist. That’s something to be proud to be a part of if nothing else.

I have yet to have an AI write code of more than one or two lines that doesn’t have a breaking bug. Speed isn’t useful if it’s broken. And honestly I usually spend more time debugging AI code than I would have just writing it myself. It’s nice sometimes for getting an understanding of syntax of a system I’m not used to, but beyond very generic scripts that don’t depend on context, it’s pretty useless in my experience. I have Copilot integrates with my IDE for work and it’s more trouble than it’s worth so far. Even just for code completion, the IDE does a better job most of the time even if it suggests much smaller chunks at a time. And the smaller chunks are actually better if I have to proofread every single word either of then outputs anyway.

Can’t convince a conservative that women and POC still make less money for the same job and affirmative action is still needed, but “AI” knows it.

And much like flawed facial recognition technology, I’m sure the police will misuse this to convict innocent people of crimes to keep the for-profit prison system full.

“[The changes] will impact everyone who uses the internet in Australia – not just people under 16.”

I’d argue that these kinds of laws usually only affect people other than the people who are being blocked. The people being blocked will just find alternatives that don’t block. VPNs or alternative search engines, etc. The only ones affected are the adults who now have to sacrifice their privacy and allow companies to collect and sell all of their information more easily and governments to build a profile of everything a citizen does without context. Search for information about nuclear reactors because there’s a new one being built in your neighborhood and want to know about the risks, and you’ll likely immediately get added to the watch list for nuclear terrorism. Add in a search for explosives to get rid of a tree stump in your yard, and now you may end up on a secret no-fly list and not find out until your vacation is ruined. So many implications to context-less search result data collection which is likely the real aim of these laws rather than keeping kids “safe” since it ultimately just forces them to use less safe alternatives.

No reason to innovate when there’s basically no competition. It’s a problem of consolidation in many industries these days. Most governments are owned by big corporations that water down and keep them from enforcing antitrust laws these days.

I use Vaultwarden with two user accounts but with an “organization” that contains passwords that we both might need access to at some point. They then get updated at the same time the password is updated since it’s where I store all passwords.

But most of those should support booting from USB devices.

I don’t think they think they will get rid of us, at least not the leaders pushing for it, but they definitely want us to go back into the closet and fear being out so that their followers think they eradicated us.

I don’t know that very many people would understand the limitations of it just like they didn’t with ChromeOS. Just need a major hardware manufacturer to start putting a Linux distro on their machines and make a more stable application installation system than KDE Discover or shore up Discover a bit and it would be great to consolidate rpm, deb, etc., rather than adding new systems like Snap and Flatpak.

This is exactly how post-capitalism was predicted to go. As consolidation eliminates competition, there’s no reason to maintain quality. If it’s crap or nothing, people have to buy the crap.

Also make sure to uninstall the Facebook app from your devices as well as any other Meta owned apps like Instagram. It was somewhat recently discovered they are using it as a backdoor to your web browsing history on any websites with Meta plugins, even when the browser isn’t tracking you directly. Though GrapheneOS should prevent that communication between apps if you don’t give the web browser extra permissions, better to be safe.

Arch is not recommended for idiots either. If you want cutting edge, you accept the risks. Works that way with all tech.

I mean, they just called them algorithms or targeted discount codes or sales before. The addition of “AI” is just marketing nonsense for shareholders.

It would have been good if it had been made all that usable. Many people were looking for a place to have all of their media in one. Smart TVs weren’t the default like now, so they were trying to take the market from things like Roku and Apple TV and such. Still could have been useful if they had made it better than the crappy Smart TV interfaces (which wouldn’t have taken much), but they never did, so it never really caught on.

If you want something similar, you could set up a cheap VPS with your own reverse proxy making sure that all of your connections are secure between the servers and VPS. But it really depends on your situation. If you have an ISP that assigns you a block of static IPv6 addresses, it’s fairly easy to then get a domain and direct based on subdomains to those addresses. I’m not lucky enough to have a halfway decent ISP available in my area, so I can’t get that or even a reasonably priced single IPv4 address for residential service, so I have to make due with dynamic DNS which makes things more complex. I fortunately don’t have an ISP that forces double NAT on me at least. So I have set up a VPS with a reverse proxy and Wireguard VPN tunnel and I use cloudflare as my domain registrar and their DDNS which I update using my OPNSense router which is also the endpoint of the VPN. I’ve been considering moving to hosting headscale on the VPS instead, but haven’t gotten around to it. It really depends on how many servers, his many services, if you have a domain, if you have a VPS or itger server outside of your home network, if your ISP gives static IPs, and you are behind a double nat kind of situation. Also depends a lot on your bandwidth. Having low upload speeds is a common problem especially if you have cable internet service. I’m lucky enough to have symmetrical fiber direct to my modem even if the ISP is way behind and doesn’t offer IPv6 other than 6rd which was meant to be a transitional system like two decades ago and is barely functional.

I mean yeah that’s the plan. Use AI. Let Nazis be Nazis. Suppress vulnerable minorities. That’s what has happened to most social media in the US over the last few years. No surprises. Just need to get people to move off those platforms to ones with better policies and moderated communities like Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. But that’s always hard to do.

It’s just a hosted reverse proxy with a proprietary server backend, as far as I can tell. I don’t usually trust “free” things lime that. It’s not that expensive to do it yourself, the real expense come in high bandwidth flowing through the proxy which most self hosted applications for personal use don’t really do.

Anyway, with a reverse proxy on the security end there’s a chance of man in the middle attacks depending on the configuration. And on the privacy end, they will have the ability to log all connections. That may be where they’re planning to make money by selling that info and/or allowing MiTM attacks to inject ads like many ISPs have talked about. But “free” stuff usually isn’t actually free in the long term even if it is now while it’s being tested. Usually just takes a sale to a large corporation for it to become less free even of the original intent wasn’t to do that.