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Quoting: LoudTechieMy proposals were.
Publish cryptographic hashes of restricted material, so small player can collaborate to implement filters for illegal information like CSAM and copyright protected material allowing them to more cheaply preform moderation responsibilities.

[Perceptual hashing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing), used for copyrighted content and CSAM detection is very different from cryptographic hashing. The goal is to catch images and videos that are "sufficiently similar". It's as vague as it sounds, and unless configured with a very low sensitivity is guaranteed to cause false positives. When configured with low sensitivity, it's possible to bypass. When you take into account the quantity of CSAM perceptual hashes out there, false positives happen regularly. So you can either block everything, or block random things. Far from a solved problem

Using perceptual hashing for copyright enforcement is even worse, because the algorithm has no way to account for [exceptions to copyright](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright). That should always be a human's judgement call, but with copyright trolls in the picture you get a lot of pressure towards false positives.

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Man those numbers are so insane. Good! Love it!

Also the top games are just so funny. CS & Dota. LOL

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Quoting: tfkOpen source mobile phones,
Open source desktops,
From there,
EU based payment systems for easy EU based online transactions,
EU based and open source security layers for said payment providers.
Educational programs to show people how to be the owner of their own system again, and how to do critical thinking again.
Ban on American cloud services like Google, Microsoft, Amazon. I mean firewall block. Boom!

Edit: gave my feedback.

This all sounds amazing as an American. Especially the payment thing. Here we are so screwed with horrible options for sending money around in friend / family groups. Most people in my social circle still use venmo for everything which is just paypal, a horrifying company.

Microsoft is so screwed in the corporate sector. I don't think they care though, right now Satya's brain has turned completely to mush with ai garbage so he can't even think properly. The entire corporate world over the next decade is going to dump office (or copilot 365 app LOLOL) and windows, so that's a TON of revenue lost. Again I don't think microsoft cares, but it'll be interesting to see what happens with windows.

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That's excellent! Can't wait to try it tomorrow! I don't expect it to be better than Vintage Story, but I'm sure its still going to be lots of fun.

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whoa this looks AWESOME. Definitely wishlisted. Thanks for the rec :)

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Quoting: vic-bayTo force tech giants contribute back to open source, the open source projects should force GPLv2 licence. And have actual auditing entity to ensure compliance. EU can enforce that.

EU has created a GPL compatible license - [EUPL v1.2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Public_Licence). It's actually translated into every single EU language, and by lawyers, not volunteers, so it's more likely to hold up in court.

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^ I hate game devs using twitter as well. Especially as you said it's now a pay-for-child-porn landscape. How hard is it to setup a mastadon or bluesky account? Oh well.

And this game I'm not familiar with, I guess it looks like a more modern minecraft maybe?

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The [inkscape](https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems/F33363220_en) post is an interesting read

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Quoting: LoudTechieEdit:
What would you guys propose?

I was thinking about stuff like this about a month ago and I’d like to see 2 things, both giving more state funding towards open-source I think could work:

1. Requirement that all software commissioned by European states be open sourced – so that it is easily maintable, available to citizens, and providers of that software can be changed (there could be exceptions for specific use-cases, like I understand to keep new military tech classified for some time; I’d still require that to eventually become open-sourced after, say, 20 or 30 years).
2. Maybe a separate open-source fund working similarly to private copying levies and the like – with a tax on income from products involving the use of open-source components. The idea would be that, say, if a company has annual income of over ~1 million euro and the product they’re selling or the infrastructure they maintain uses open-source components (libraries, databases, operating systems…), they pay some low tax (0.5%? 1%? I’ve no feel for what a specific good value would be) of the income. They could avoid paying that tax by either showing that they use absolutely no open-source (and thus don’t benefit from open-source directly) or that they are already contributing back by releasing their stuff (so if they release open-source and earn by maintaining it themselves, they’d be free from the tax). The money would be used by the state to pay foundations, societies, and other organizations maintaining and supporting open-source projects.

Point 2 is pretty much treating open-source as the public infrastructure it de facto is and fund it from taxes from the institutions that use it, as normally it’s done with public infrastructure (roads, media, health-care…).

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Gonna nitpick here, but

Speaking on X/Twitter

...actually puts me off caring about this game. I know it's shallow, but there it is. I don't care if you're "reaching your audience" - first of all, you're not reaching me, and second of all, you're helping fund and justify the child porn platform.

I wonder what it'll take for genuine brands to realise that association with Musk's toxic hellscape rubs off on them. At least for me.

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Open source mobile phones,
Open source desktops,
From there,
EU based payment systems for easy EU based online transactions,
EU based and open source security layers for said payment providers.
Educational programs to show people how to be the owner of their own system again, and how to do critical thinking again.
Ban on American cloud services like Google, Microsoft, Amazon. I mean firewall block. Boom!

Edit: gave my feedback.

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Oh god, that looks really good. If it was just a numbers puzzle game, I'd be vaguely interested... but the sub-narrative reminds me of things like Doki Doki, or Antichamber.

And argh!!! Just went to buy it, and you've sold me a dummy! It's "out in 2026". What does that mean!?!? Goddamit!! 😆

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Quoting: LoudTechieOn the nitpicky side, the call for evidence is for how to steer european open source toward their objectives, not the importance.

Well, it's both. It's clearly important because they're looking to base their future on it, and they want to steer people to them.

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Quoting: syylkThe sooner the EU realizes that the US are not an ally anymore, the better.

That sound like input that's best directed at the "strategic foresight report" call for evidence.

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The sooner the EU realizes that the US are not an ally anymore, the better.

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Quoting: vic-bayTo force tech giants contribute back to open source, the open source projects should force GPLv2 licence. And have actual auditing entity to ensure compliance. EU can enforce that. MIT licence and similar ones won't work, they don't require even crediting authors and contributors. That's why I don't like those "permissive" licences. We don't need another intel management engine, also known as Minix.

What could the EU do to help achieve this?

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this looks interesting, right now i'm editing my mangohud config per hand and sometimes with mangojuice. but sometimes mangojuice messes up the UI for like no reason

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Quoting: benjamimgoisThanks for the post Liam ! GamingonLinux recognition makes a lot of difference.

Goverlay started as a GUI for overlay (mangohud), but the scope got broader. I'm thinking about rebrand the project. Maybe some community feedback / suggestions would be cool.

I like the word conductor for an app like this, as it's managing many parts of a performance. Game Conductor is the obvious choice if that word is included, but I'm sure there are other variations that would work too. I'll admit, Goverlay was a technical enough sounding name that I did not do the research I should have when hearing it for the first time. I assumed this was something lower in the stack that I wouldn't be interested in configuring, but it's quite the opposite and I'll be trying it out immediately!

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To force tech giants contribute back to open source, the open source projects should force GPLv2 licence. And have actual auditing entity to ensure compliance. EU can enforce that. MIT licence and similar ones won't work, they don't require even crediting authors and contributors. That's why I don't like those "permissive" licences. We don't need another intel management engine, also known as Minix.

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My proposals were.
Publish cryptographic hashes of restricted material, so small player can collaborate to implement filters for illegal information like CSAM and copyright protected material allowing them to more cheaply preform moderation responsibilities.
Back export controls up with sovereign hosting, iron clad NDA's and money.
Simplify copyleft enforcement.

Edit:
What would you guys propose?

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I wonder if there is a way in goverlay to not save the configuration on every change to make it easier to try out other modes without zapping the current config. Maybe I'm missing something obvious.

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Yeah, I was pretty enthusiastic when I read that call and send some proposals and praise their way.

Edit: Also you don't have to be an EU-citizen to support feedback.
They've a seperate category for that.

On the nitpicky side, the call for evidence is for how to steer european open source toward their objectives, not the importance.

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Thanks for the post Liam ! GamingonLinux recognition makes a lot of difference.

Goverlay started as a GUI for overlay (mangohud), but the scope got broader. I'm thinking about rebrand the project. Maybe some community feedback / suggestions would be cool.

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It seems that for major corporate distros flathub has a fatal flaw of being outside of the distro's control, which is why fedora also has its own flatpak repo, and Ubuntu has snap.
In the long term it seems snap will replace deb for system and server software, which is fine, but for apps I also hope that most devs will always choose flathub over snap to the point that snap is pointless for that

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ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

The idea of over a million gamers, gaming on Linux. Love it. Still a long road before we see vendor support, or anti-cheat budging, but that's a big proportion, and should be celebrated.

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Love this app! <3

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how thoughtful of nvidia, you'll own nothing and be happy

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Makes sense. Snowy winter in Europe that closed roads and schools; severe inflation that rendered socialising outside near-impossible. I can't think of better way to kill time. Heck, even I returned to Overcooked 2 and finally started playing Victor Vran after years of delaying.

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I think the only thing that worries me about the Steam Machine, right now, is its price and performances.
- If you're already a PC gamer (whatever the OS) and know about hardware stuff etc., if the price is too high, I don't see why you'd purchase one: you'd just buy a custom PC for lower price and better performances.
- If you're a console gamer, like you have a PS5 or Xbox Series X, I don't see why you'd purchase a Steam Machine that isn't really better that your 5 years old console and for a higher price too, when you would have to buy all your games again.

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Quoting: CaldathrasFALSE. Been a while since you've looked at AppImage, I'm guessing? Most modern AppImage files are shipping with built-in update support (0 A.D. For example). There are two ways that I'm aware of to get AppImage updating these days. One is the official [AppImageUpdate](https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/AppImageUpdate) (which is distributed via an AppImage and can also update itself). This is still considered to be in beta. The other is to use [AM / AppMan (AppImage Package Manager)](https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM).

Exactly I'm using AM and mostly install AppImages with AppMan in my home folder and it handles updates. It doesn't do it automatically like snap, but I don't mind running am -u from time to time.

I also used the AppImageUpdate for a time, but it wasn't working quite right. Maybe it is better now, but looking at the GitHub it is still in alpha stage.

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