nixCraft 🐧When you visit https://archlinux32.org/ and it gets blocked due to stupid laws. They blocked visitors from Brazil and California.
Soon, pretty much all you will get this message on many such Linux and open source projects.
Artur
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Nerd and Gamer, some techy techy stuff and some open source stuff.
systemd lost the plot a long time ago. they stopped following the Unix philosophy and now they're busy adding nonsense like age verification. Just like Firefox, systemd doesn't understand its core user base. There are plenty of distros without systemd
Harley 🐝🌿- do you want to use google to sign in?
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I'm tired boss
Keep Android Open
It's FOSSTrue story? 😶🌫️
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.
Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.
Electronic Frontier Foundation“It’s important to avoid uploading photos (to ChatGPT or other AI) that you want to make sure nobody but you ever looks at,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @WSJ - too many AI users assume a certain level of privacy that actually might not be there. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-photos-safety-83dd9b5b
If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/book-bans-internet-bans-wyoming-lets-parents-control-whole-states-access-internet
From Book Bans to Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control the Whole State’s Access to The Internet
If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. As of July 1st, South Dakota and Wyoming enacted laws requiring any website that hosts any...