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Billions of dollars and Euro. Many billions. For AI and other bullshit.
But you still can't get an email client (MUA) to alter "Re:" into a national version on an incoming message for displaying (eg. Swedish "SV:" or German "AW:") and replace it into "Re:" on the way out again.
Losers.
Update on the Colorado Age Attestation bill: Everyone that participated in the meeting last week submitted proposed changes to the bill. They included good ideas to improve consumer protection and privacy and exempt open source software.
Sen. Ball responded this morning that they'll now draft potential amendments.
I think we're making good progress. I'm off for a ski weekend with the kids. Have a great weekend everyone!
To be clear, I'm very cautious when it comes to metrics or telemetry. But at the same time, I understand that GNOME *literally cannot measure* how many people change any settings, which is always the argument for GNOME doing something differently.
“Everyone installs X extension!” Do they? How can we know that?
“Everyone changes Y setting!” Oh really? How can we validate that?
“Everyone wants GNOME to work like Z!” Oh, I would love to see the user research data!
The Rust project puts out an article about how they're listening to their community https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/rust-challenges/
Except it turns out that article was drafted by an LLM https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1rz15t3/what_we_heard_about_rusts_challenges_and_how_we/obiwu24/
They claim nearly every line was rewritten by a human but I'm not sure how you could send a worse signal to your community about how much you aren't listening than having an LLM draft a post saying we're really listening, honest
I didn’t think this needed to be said, but don’t make up conspiracy theories about Linux projects complying with the age verification laws. You’re frustrated like we all are, but you’re directing it at the party that has little power other than to implement it as minimally as possible.
Instead, contact the lawmakers that passed this without listening to groups such as the EFF, who warned them about how it affects platforms other than Apple and Google’s. There’s still time before the laws come into effect.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/ab-1043s-internet-age-gates-hurt-everyone

EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Such mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They create unnecessary and unconstitutional barriers for adults and young people to access information and express themselves online. They hurt small and open-source...