@KiwiTB

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Half-arsed Technician, all arsed person.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MozillaAI/116279201448628866

All we wanted was a browser. All you had to do was build a browser. You had one job.

Hedley Davis dies at 68: remembering a key Commodore Amiga engineer

https://sopuli.xyz/post/42938975

Hedley Davis dies at 68: remembering a key Commodore Amiga engineer - Sopuli

Lemmy

The extent to which core linux projects are laying the groundwork for age verification is very concerning.

I understand why some believe they are compelled to do so, and why others feel that it may be better to implement the most minimal conforming implementation in the hopes of fending off something worse.

But the line must be drawn such that no threat can obligate an OS to collect/store personal information - without that freedom, we face an uphill fight to protect general purpose computing.

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.

This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176#0b07c0cc4d49be119f65cdb2037440f56eed647a

user: Add BirthDate with polkit-gated GetBirthDate and SetBirthDate methods (!176) · Merge requests · accountsservice / accountsservice · GitLab

Summary Add a BirthDate field to the user account interface. For non-homed users, the value is stored...

GitLab

If you've even been lying awake at night, wondering to yourself if it's possible for Amiga 500 to drive a Commodore 64 as a MIDI instrument via Octamed, then I have some excellent news to share with you.

#retrocomputing #music

Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash

There's a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Claude.

GamingOnLinux
When Mozilla released Firefox 148.0 with the "AI kill switch", I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and give it a try. It worked...for a while. With the 148.0.2 update, however, the kill switch was disabled and a lot of my settings had changed. That's it. That's the one chance I was going to give them but Firefox, once again, has been removed from all of my hardware. I can no longer trust Mozilla to do the right thing. I am officially done.

#mozilla #firefox #noai

🚀 A new CachyOS release is here!

This update brings major improvements to our installer, a reworked website design, and more improvements under the hood.

Check out full changelog for all the details: https://cachyos.org/blog/2603-march-release/

CachyOS March 2026 Release

Desktop Previews, Winboat, Website Redesign

Mike Klubnika tells us about his experience developing the 2024 indie hit Buckshot Roulette, as well as his newer project, s.p.l.i.t. #godotengine

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-showcase-buckshot-roulette/

Godot Showcase - Buckshot Roulette – Godot Engine

Mike Klubnika tells us about his experience working on Buckshot Roulette.

Godot Engine