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Much more widespread than one would believe it seems.
I think it's safe to assume any sufficiently large software project will at least be in part written by software, for both good and ill.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/ricardo/statuses/116244896446079820

Group A was conned by group B.
A subset of group A was helping con the rest on behalf of group B.

#infosec #linux #privacy

freedesktop Closes Controversial Age Verification API Proposal

https://linuxiac.com/xdg-age-verification-interface-proposal-closed/

freedesktop Closes Controversial Age Verification API Proposal

A proposed age verification interface for Linux desktops has been closed in the freedesktop XDG specs, following strong community feedback.

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There's something I notice about people fixated on information control.
They really hate the fact that social media gave people the smallest whiff of being able to have conversations about difficult topics on their own terms.
It's usually phrased as 'the kids on their phones' but you'll notice it will leak out into any area where people can find their own voice.
One of my bigger concerns moving forward is that the small-scale control freaks will team up with the warmongers to suppress dissent entirely.
2026 in a nutshell
What 'brain hacks' have you actually tried and found effective?

That said, if you have a job where you create complexity for others, you will be found out. The days of rent seekers are coming to an end. But not because there will be no more rent seeking, it’s because rent seeking is a 0 sum game and you will lose at it to bigger players. If you have a job like that, or work at a company like that, the sooner you quit the better your outcome will be. This is the real driver of the layoffs, the big players consolidating the rent seeking to them. They just say it’s AI cause that makes the stock price go up.

Every minute you aren't running 69 agents, you are falling behind

Every minute you aren’t running 69 agents, you are falling behind

Just kidding.

the singularity is nearer
Do people distinguish between self-hosting on your own machines or via the cloud? Self-hosting vs home-hosting? Is there an actual term for this?

I believe that anarchists can out-flank authoritarians by demonstrating to the people that there is a difference between having loyalty to the state and caring for your fellow citizens.

The problem is that most people wouldn't have anarchist tendencies if they didn't (on some level) feel personally betrayed by the people who tolerate state power and its abuses.

I'm a lot less confident that the media / information landscape influences the flow of history and more suspicious that it just rationalizes it all after the fact.