Quoting: eggroleThese were middle of the road people with concerns that have largely been proven true. Housing prices have increased not only because of reckless fiscal policies, but because there are literally more people competing for the same houses.

They are _many_ empty housing around here, many houses that are empty except for 2 months/year, or flats that are only available to rent by the week (I live near the coast). Yet according to the far-right at our municipal elections last week this would be caused by immigrants: that's pure out-of-nowhere bullshit.

Quoting: eggroleRape gangs in Europe (again I am not well versed) seem like they are far too common - and the demographics are clear.

Not common AFAICT. My Asian-typed wife has certainly had more issues with European-typed people than any other population groups. Sample of 1 I know, but certainly better than “I am not well versed” sample of 0.
BTW how can you say that the “demographics are clear” and that you are “not well versed” in the same sentence??? Do you realize how biased and ultimately racist that is?

Quoting: eggrolePublic services are being spread thinner, again because (among possible other reasons) there are more people to service.

Without immigration our population would actually decrease. The state is encouraging us to make more babies and will send all 29-yo a letter about this this summer. In fact the far-right are the main ones urging people to make more babies. So that's not the issue being public services. It only shows some people value French-born babies higher than immigrants…
That also invalidates the point about population increase being the issue with housing BTW.

Quoting: eggroleIn the USA we are seeing investigation after investigation on fraud that is often done by migrants (though all fraud should be dealt with, this isn't a migrant issue really until you look at the demographics).

Good for you if the biggest fraud is by the groups of people with the less income! (Sorry I can help but being sarcastic on that point.)
Around here the prime example would probably be Google et al not paying their taxes as they should, and Ireland being complicit. Then comes to mind this [External Link] affair about our main far-right party getting people employed by the European Parliament but not actually working there.
Again the biggest frauders are often the people/companies with the biggest incentive to fraud: people moving more money around.

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Quoting: eggroleAdd to this, people calling them Nazis for wanting something different than you might want will only exclude them and dig them into their positions. […] Extremism is created when there is a lack of communication, and I see this divide worsening as people seemingly refuse to engage civilly with one another.

Other commenters already (civilly) pointed out issues with your comment, but I have to say I agree with this point A LOT.

Calling people names is the worse way to make them change their minds. The only thing you get out of it is validation from people who already agree with you anyway.

I'm in France, in my 20k-people city the far-right party got 20% of the votes, their main selling points were (in descending order of priority according to their website):
1. more police, more weapons, more cameras
2. more parking space for cars near the city center
3. less money for thing they don't like (mainly pointing out subsidized housing and immigration-related associations)

And the non-written selling point is that their leader is a 19-yo woman studying law, ie a young Marine Le Pen.

Now I disagree with all of these points, but is calling 1 out of 5 of my neighbors nazis or fascists going to change their minds in any way? Or should I go to them and ask “Okay, why do you want cameras in the street? When do you think it would have helped you? I don't like that kind of surveillance because it can be misused for X, plus example Y shows it isn't even effective in the case you just described, what do you think of solution Z instead?”?

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Back to article's subject, I don't really like this kind of games, which I place into the name calling category. They're fun only if you already agree with the point they're trying to make* and won't change anyone's mind.

(*or are we reading too much into it, associating it with currently raising far-right ideas?)

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We have similar legislation in France already, it's implemented differently but the intent is the same: since 2024 all new connected consumer devices (computers, phones, smartwatches, etc) must include some sort of parental control software/settings at no extra costs. The law mandates that users are prompted to set it up on first launch.

From what I understand, the major differences are:
- It doesn't focus on operating systems but on devices, in fact our law has an explicit exception for devices sold _without_ an operating system.
- It doesn't require the device to ask the user's age and doesn't mandate how the parental control software should works, only that it should allow blocking content which is illegal for minors.

EDIT: see https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/actualites/A17487?lang=en [External Link]

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Quoting: doragasuTranslations and OCR are not the things that have caused the hatred.

(I'll ignore your second sentence, if you're able to discuss without personal attacks that is?)

Caused it: no, but they do get included in the hatred.
Because Mozilla's marketing grouped those features together under the “AI” buzzword, and because some people freak out at “AI” → large image/text generation models → sloppy work, license infringement, high resource usage and whatnot (and I agree with most of these claims).

The comment I was originally quoting called for all those features to be disabled by default, so does the latest comment as I'm typing this:

Quoting: EhvisI would like to think the majority of users would want it all turned off.

And I sincerely disagree: I'm pretty happy when my browser politely asks me if I want websites written in German to be translated into French for me.

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Quoting: hardpenguinHow about you disable them by default, Mozilla, and have people unleash AI at their own peril -_-

This is dumb. So dumb.

What's dumb about translations and OCR?

Blind hatred for anything labeled with “AI” is as pointless as hatred for anything that uses linked lists.

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They're definitely having fun with the logo:
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And from the current compatibility list [External Link] we see that they've been testing at least those through Waydroid:
- Labogrammetry (no idea what that is)
- Moss II [External Link]
- Open Brush [External Link]
- Pistol Whip 🐸 [External Link]
- The Lab [External Link]

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One question, could we not just sign the linux kernel and other parts, so that the anti cheat program would know that nothing has been altered? I am thinking about something like steam hosting a list of trusted hashes and that any company that is trusted by steam can push new hashes for theier compiled linux kernels there.

What you're describing is measured boot + remote attestation (typically implemented using Secure Boot and a TPM). It is indeed the technical solution to ensure that a remote peer only runs approved software. I'd agree to use such a solution for official competitions with a cash prize but not for casual gaming where I want to keep full control on my system.

IMO cheating in casual gaming is more of a social problem and requires social solutions. An obvious solution is to stop making free-to-play games. Another one is to link accounts with real identities using eIDs or such − I'd personally be OK with that if done properly, your opinion may vary.

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Hard to imagine the Linux space without KDE nowadays isn't it?

Hard to imaging the computing space without KDE. Remember that Safari's and Chrome's rendering engines are KHTML forks.
Granted, I'm not sure how much of much of KHTML actually remains in WebKit and Blink 😅

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Worth mentioning this seems heavily inspired by Suika Game [External Link], but an even weirder variant 🤔

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Sadly, that 3% people were hoping for is another month away, but we'll hit it eventually going by the trends overall.

Now that Valve is heavily invested in Linux gaming, there's no way to ever hit those 3% I fear…
Maybe we'll reach Alyx% though?

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