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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: LoudTechieYou don't report backdoors to reviewers.
They already approved them and thus presumably stand behind them.
You publish them on social media(as demonstrated by the xz-backdoor)
What it can result in is dumb social media discussions about when something is a backdoor.

Ah, you meant intentional back doors; sorry, I misunderstood. Dumb social media discussions are easily ignored, so that's ok.

Semi.
When there's a weakness in the code that was added by mistake. I consider it a security vulnerability.
When there's a weakness in the code that was intentionally added by people who in some way managed to impersonate the figure which approves code for that project; I consider it an unintentional backdoor.
When there's a weakness in the code that was intentionally added by the person who approves code for that project; I consider it an intentional backdoor.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyThe EU actually just released an app that enabled users to proof their age to an apps or website. This enables the user to stay completely anonymous, only the minimal required information is passed on to the app or website.

https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/european-age-verification-app-keep-children-safe-online-2026-04-15_en

US take not please. We don't need your BS.

But a lot of trust is still placed in the company that manages the national digital id system of your nation and your nation(they suddenly know which 18+ sites you visit by who requests it).
It's 10 times better than the 10 most common ways to do age verification, but it's still scary. Although you won't hear me arguing it's impossible to avoid this porblem. It's still a problem..

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I really enjoy using Mint because it's stable and very user-friendly, and I also welcome the fact that planning and stability are being prioritised by the developers. Will Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: LoudTechieAlso the big maintainers(Linus, KDE, FSF, RHEL, etc) will face pressure to add the feature.
In the end it will become a build option to add and not add this.

That would be the easy thing. But that ultimately means nothing as it is removed quicker than it can be added. It is fundamentally impossible add this sort of thing into an open source system and have it "work". And what comes then is the scary part. If anyone can remove said protection, then maybe a "smart" government official will decide that only "approved" systems should be bootable on computers. Bring in "SecureBoot NG-STC", a mandatory security system that makes sure that only lawful systems can be booted on computers! Problem solved!

A. As a Linux user you're vastly underestimating the amount of technical skill required to flash a new version of the OS and/or alter read only marked user values. Defaults matter the vast majority of people will use the code provided by the manufacturer and stick to it.
B. It's a lot easier as a parent to check this one trick than monitor a kid's entire online presence. One could even provide a

Still I find it realistic, but than coming from police forces which just always want more government mandated spyware on your device.

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Quoting: grigi

Quoting: LoudTechieIt's not attached to the computer it's attached to the user account(poor FreeBSD doesn't have accounts)

They don't have their own accounts either. How many home PC's actually have separate accounts? I mean houses where chaos rules?

Virtually zero, that's what.

That's my point.

A. From that point it's the parents decision, since it costs nothing to make extra accounts. Making this a "parents decide" thing.
B. We might be encountering my privileged upbringing here. My parents had the tendency to maintain separate account for the device owner and the rest of the family, so I assumed this to be common practice. Help with account setup could be included with the maternity care.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LoudTechiecriminal dev: Most potential partners avoid me, because I've been proven to be violent in court

Assuming it was a violent crime. Even today, people do still sometimes go to jail for embezzlement as long as it wasn't a big enough amount to make you a new-minted oligarch . . .

According to our favorite mediaoutlet.
He claimed he was jailed, because he was "a very violent person."

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I don't know how this is going to work. From all the people with kids, I'm the only one who has separate accounts for every member of the family -- everyone else has a single account in their computer, which is used by everyone in the family. People will not start using accounts in their computers as it's too hard for most people I know of. And if nobody uses accounts, there's no way to enforce the law. Heck, many people share their accounts also with their kids phones...

It used to be hard to create email address for a kid because of age restrictions, but it looks like that has changed since I tried it last time... So at least you can now create an email account in Google (and some others I tried) for a newborn child.

Most people aren't good with computers, heck, I know many families which have no computers (just phones and maybe a tablet) in their house. I just don't think that this law will work in practice.

That said, I do like the idea that it's going to be mandatory to have parent controls in the devices, especially if all service providers need to obey the rules to moderate their content for kids. But in the end, it should be the parents who control the age limitations for their kids, not the government or some company.

Also there's always a way to get around limitations and kids are very good on doing that.

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Gotta admit, that looks really dashed cool.

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Quoting: LoudTechiecriminal dev: Most potential partners avoid me, because I've been proven to be violent in court

Assuming it was a violent crime. Even today, people do still sometimes go to jail for embezzlement as long as it wasn't a big enough amount to make you a new-minted oligarch . . .

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To me, this is threatening me with a good time at one sixth the price. I'm not into playing games online in the first place, so restricting it to offline solo play is just restricting it to what I would have wanted to do anyway.

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Quoting: LoudTechieYou don't report backdoors to reviewers.
They already approved them and thus presumably stand behind them.
You publish them on social media(as demonstrated by the xz-backdoor)
What it can result in is dumb social media discussions about when something is a backdoor.

Ah, you meant intentional back doors; sorry, I misunderstood. Dumb social media discussions are easily ignored, so that's ok.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksParamount's new owners are even worse than the old ones too. So I'm not expecting anything to get any better either.

Once the merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery is complete, the new owner is going to be David Ellison, son of Larry Ellison. His dad put money into Trump's campaign and is friends with him, which should make it easy to approve once it goes through the usual merger routine.

After the merger, it's going to get worse with the amount of debt they'll be carrying to the tune of about $80 billion. Before you know it, a lot of heads are going to roll just like any other merger because they'll need to find ways to pay that back.

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Quoting: nullzeroUnrelated, will this be the same fate as Nightingale? (see some recurring patterns here)

I don't think so because Nightingale just got an update two months ago and seems to be ongoing.

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If I was doing AI stuff, trying to be local, open-source, maintaining control, and all that stuff, why would I choose Mozilla?

Everyone in this space is some degree of untrustworthy, but even if this software/service turned out to be great and useful, that would just mean Mozilla would shut it down.
I'm not trying to be funny, I think there's a pattern of behavior and earned distrust here.

Mozilla is a deeply-confused organization with more executives than sense.
Maybe this will work for enterprise or whatever, and I would credit it entirely to the Berlin company they're working with getting Mozilla's name recognition if it does.

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"AI-generated code is based upon sources of unknown origins and may not be compatible with the Zlib license, or may introduce conflicting license terms if they include code from other projects."
finally someone quoted the licence issue

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Completely illogical. We don’t force age verification of people entering a convenience store that sells alcohol and tobacco- but we’re going to force everyone to verify their age on a computer just because of the possibility of being able to get to adult content or other adult platforms. This responsibility should be on websites, content providers and individual platforms not on the operating systems. We’re really trying to be as stupid as possible here. All the tech companies should just refuse to comply and tell the government “if you pass this law us we will revoke your software licenses”
Let’s see how far the government is willing to go without Microsoft office and Adobe lol.🤣

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When will I be able to set my Ollama endpoint in Firefox? Mozilla knows about Ollama - this tool can connect to it and run local models. So why can’t Firefox use it instead of relying on cloud solutions like Anthropic, OpenAI, or Mistral?

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"Immersive sim boomer shooter". The genre names for video games are getting out of hand.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyonly the minimal required information is passed on to the app or website.

Which is already the maximum amount of information passed to the app or website. If you are under 18 you will switch that date once you become mature, so they know exactly your birth. For us adults no issue so far, but for all upcoming generations it means a fully transparent birthday.

Can't we just begin to teach our kids first? Where is the talk about improving schools? They could learn stuff that is also useful as adult, not just as child.

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I think Mozilla need to just stop it already with the LLMs, LLMs aren't the infinite moneymaker they thought it would be. They aren't going to be fetch because techbros rushed gassed up LLMs to market and dressed them up in name only to be "AI". It just shows me that Mozilla has lost their way, lost in the dark and in need of a guiding light to bring them back to their core principles. Before their products are relegated to the past like Netscape, Internet Explorer and other dead browsers. I've already stopped using anything Mozilla and deleted my account because the trust is broken.

If only Mozilla took Vivaldi's approach to LLMs and rejected them until they can be ethically sourced, and cause no harm to the environment or livelihoods of human beings! Which is probably never, because techbros want to create a torment nexus instead of something genuinely helpful to human beings and the world.

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Quoting: walther von stolzing

Thunderbolt is already a thing, a well-known thing in tech.

Yeah, not only that, but my mind went to Mozilla's other (?!) Thunderb*** immediately -- 'are they changing Thunderbird's name? Is this a typo? Is this a chatbot inside Thunderbird? Is Thunderbird going to force-summarize my emails from now on?', etc.

Please don't give them any more ideas!

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ah, that's such great news. it's a really special game, there's nothing quite like it.

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Yes, for those who don't know, despite the article not specifying it, this game was built in Godot. They even had a talk at GodotCon about adding multiplayer to a singleplayer game!

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The EU actually just released an app that enabled users to proof their age to an apps or website. This enables the user to stay completely anonymous, only the minimal required information is passed on to the app or website.

https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/european-age-verification-app-keep-children-safe-online-2026-04-15_en

US take not please. We don't need your BS.

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Quoting: LoudTechieMy review.
+ Totally implementable.
+ not a giant big tech boon.
+ simple law
- easy to circumvent.
- I don't trust them to not turn this in something problematic.
- also applies to IOT and servers.

This will mostly result in the automation of these cookie banner like age gates.

Prepare for the logrolling to begin. I doubt this bill will stay simple for long.

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LLAP, DXVK-Sarek.

Thank you for supporting legacy hardware.

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I tried demo and got instantly hooked up! This is very promising project. The core game is even better than the demo. Try it!

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loved the demo for this one. really scratches that Gummi Ship building itch from Kingdom Hearts in a fun and replayable way.

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Is it more or less ridiculous than the shoe company pivoting to AI datacenters?

And Thunderbolt? Really?

I'm more and more glad that I stopped donating to Mozilla. Which still feel weird to say.

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This is just overreaching mass surveillance in the guise (lies) of "protecting the children". These people have age verification all backwards. They don't care about protecting anyone, they want more of your data and to track your activities.

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