I am a FOSS Advocate.

Federal bill alert.

HR 8250 is worth your attention.

It forces every OS to check your age and hand it to every app you open.
Meta spent an estimated $2B lobbying for laws like this. When a kid sneaks onto Instagram, it's your OS's fault — not Meta's.

Linux distros are already pulling out of US states. An open-source calculator is geo-blocking Colorado.

Facebook walked into Congress with a checkbook. Call your rep and oppose HR 8250.

#foss #privacy

Age is just a number*.

*of things that keep breaking and need increasing maintenance

How to fight fascism in one minute today:

Here is what you can do to stop Trump’s attack on US Late Night Host.

Jimmy Kimmel has been suspended. His show is owned by ABC, and ABC is owned by Disney, which is a global enterprise.

So if you have a Disney streaming subscription, just cancel it and watch something else. It is that simple.

Just say no to tyranny.

I have finally moved over to Linux as my primary platform. In many ways it is like coming home, as I loved working on UNIX machines in the past. Of course, I have been using Linux as a secondary OS for a long time, but I finally made the switch. Microsoft cancelling Windows 10 and the direction Windows 11 is going was just too much for me.

@ruario helped the transition, by making it easy for me to work with multiple concurrent @Vivaldi installs.
That is a must for me as I test a lot of builds at the same time.

#Windows #Linux #computing #Technology #AI #Vivaldi

I was on the Oreo website and I clicked Accept All Cookies.

Now we wait...