Mastodawn

What’s at stake in the fight against age verification is not just a single bill in a single state. It’s about whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control online that reinforces specific moral and religious worldviews. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

fernando Mar 12

Jeff Geerling Mar 12

I liked this era of Mac OS X

fernando Mar 11

Vivaldi Browser Mar 11

Big Tech is at it again.

Some of you might have seen this already. Google has announced a new policy for Android app developers, which would require them to seek Google’s permission if they want to distribute their apps outside of the Google Play Store (on their own website or on alternative app stores). This would entail:

1) agreeing to their terms and conditions
2) paying a fee
3) uploading a government ID

Which is wrong on so many levels. Nobody should be forced to register with Google if they don’t want to use their services.

In doing so they would be extending their gatekeeping (tentacles) into distribution channels where they’re just not a legitimate authority.

At Vivaldi, we believe you have the right to run whatever software you want on a device you own. That’s why we’ve co-signed this open letter, together with other 53 organisations, requesting Google to back off on the proposed policy before it enters into force.

(Plus, they have have a pretty cool logo 😄)

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution

fernando Mar 11

KDAB Mar 11

Delivering high-accuracy neonatal monitoring with Rust and Ferrocene in a joint project with @ferrous.

Find the demo at Booth 4-402 in Hall 4 at Embedded World.

#RustLang #EmbeddedRust #Ferrocene #EmbeddedSystems #MedTech

fernando Mar 11

Eugen Rochko Mar 10

Machine translations are often brought up as a gotcha whenever I criticize LLMs. It's worth pointing out two things: Machine translations existed decades before LLMs, and yes, machine translations are useful. However: I would never in my life read a machine translated book. Understanding what a social media post is talking about in rough terms? Sure. Literature? Absolutely not. Hell, have you ever seen machine translated subtitles? It's absolute garbage.

fernando Mar 11

It's FOSS Mar 11

Happy birthday to Arch Linux, btw! 🗿😘

#archlinux #linux

fernando Mar 10

Christine Lemmer-Webber Mar 10

It turns out GenAI code changes are causing serious incidents and outages at Amazon with "high blast radius" https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/

Junior / middle engineers no longer allowed to push GenAI code to production without senior engineer review

(HT @KimPerales )

EDIT: Better link above than before. Old one is here:
https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

Ars Technica

fernando Mar 10

nixCraft 🐧Mar 10

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705

Lmao. Gen AI is causing outages at AWS and Amazon causing business income loss. So now all AI created code needs senior developers to check it twice. So how is this saving time? #ai #llm #aws

fernando Mar 10

Nick @ The Linux Experiment Mar 10

I've recently dabbled with #Wine and Winboat, and while it was all pretty fun, my conclusion is still that these solutions really don't help with running Windows programs on #Linux all that much, and don't help with "serious / professional" adoption.

Here are my thoughts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEI95GIRKaU

How to run most Windows apps on Linux, and why it won't really help

YouTube

fernando Mar 9

Mitchell Hashimoto Mar 9

Ghostty 1.3 also discloses a CVE that impacts every prior Ghostty release. For that reason alone (amongst the many other benefits), I highly recommend upgrading. We didn't change any system requirements for 1.3, so everyone on 1.2.x can upgrade. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/security/advisories/GHSA-4jxv-xgrp-5m3r